“It frustrates me when everyone always talks about how charming he is, how he’s a practical joker.” Bullock said that while Clooney is definitely charming, “when he gets on a set, he’s all work.”
It’s a good thing too, because space is serious business. And acting like you’re in space when you’re actually harnessed inside a 9×9 box with no lower body function? Dangerously serious, according to Bullock, who said that the combination of “the upside down factor,” “the 12-wire system,” and the “weird hydraulic-arm chair” made for “something that should be in Fifty Shades of Grey.”
Both actors were in awe of the 3-D technology Cuarón was able to incorporate into the final cut of Gravity. Clooney told the audience, “The great thing about this film is it’s an argument for coming to a theater and seeing it on a big screen,” which they agreed to with a burst of applause. “To find films that make sense and make it an event to come here and do that, I think that’s extraordinary.”
Of course, when asked about his previous experience with acting in 3-D films, Clooney quickly went on to tease, “Batman & Robin in some ways was 3-D — I had nipples on that thing!”
