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Q: The Coen Brothers certainly know how to pull the vanity out of you!
George Clooney: (laughs) Yes. Thanks, yeah.

Q: You seem quite happy to send yourself up in their company
GC: Well they're the kind of guys that you would do anything for, you know? And, they say well, let's do a whole bit about your teeth and you go, okay, do it about the teeth. They really have opened up great places for me to be able to work. I trust them with everything so I will do what they ask. Fall flat on your face but I'd rather fall flat on my face with them than somebody I don't trust.

Q: Well this is very much a farce.
GC: Yeah, it's old time. The kind of films that I grew up adoring, so, we'll see.

Q: Divorce lawyers rank just beneath personal injury lawyers in terms of sleaze.
GC: Yeah, that's interesting, I know a few of them, pretty interesting characters, because it's really about staying out of court and getting people to settle, really interesting. But, I've had a couple of run ins with them before, interesting guys.

Q: And the concept of gold digging it's not a new one.
GC: No.
Q: But it seems to have become a bona-fide profession these days.
GC: With some people I think that it has. You know that part of the story seems more fanciful to me because I don't think, it's really that obvious. I've seen some divorce lawyers who are just about as out there as I was and I didn't see so many gold diggers that are quiteâ¦.I think we hyped that one up a little bit just for the fun of it.
Q: That speech your character makes...
GC: ¦My Jerry McGuire speech. Yeah, well you know the funniest thing with that one is we start doing it and we're laughing hysterically because it's a long speech and we all know that the only way you can do it is to play it straight and know that everyone's going to start going, oh no, oh no, here he goes. I know that it pays off at the end but that was such a fun shoot. All these extras were out there and all we did was laugh all day.

Q: Clearly you're still one of the more eligible bachelors.
GC: I got married this morning!
Q Did you?
GC: Yeah, some girl came up with a veil and threw rice and she had a priest or something with a video camera and she married me!

Q: So, it's official now.
GC: It's over, I've got a honeymoon to get to.

Q: You've been written some fantastically witty dialogue with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julia Roberts, and Jennifer Lopez. Do you feel woefully inadequate when you're left to your own devices?
GC: Yeah, exactly. I think you're pretty, I really like your hair, no, I usually just steal lines from the movies. It works until the film comes out and then you get slapped.
Q: You could re-enact whole scenes!
GC: Exactly!

Q: I imagine that kind of dialogue enhances the chemistry with someone like Catherine Zeta-Jones, who's particularly lethal in this film.
GC: Oh, she's so great! She's so much fun too, she's a funny girl, she gets it, she really celebrates life. She and Michael came to the house in Italy for a few days and I'm just taken with the way they live their lives, they just love it. They're having the time of their lives right now, it's really fun.
Q: "O Brother Where Art Thou?" was the Coen Brothers' most successful film and the odds are pretty good for this one as well. Do you think your collaboration with them has allowed them to become less of a specialised film-making duo?
GC: I don't know. "O Brother" still didn't make a lot of money. They haven't made a film that was a hit really, I just love the films they make. I just don't think they make a bad film. And if one of these eventually ends up making some money that would always be nice for them. The big knock was, well now they've gone mainstream. They just made a romantic comedy the way they would make a romantic comedy and if that's mainstream, you know, then we'll keep making mainstream films.