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Article: Clooney's on his game in thriller 'Michael Clayton'
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 5, 2007
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AS an actor, George Clooney has often mirrored his off-screen
persona: a smooth, good-looking charmer who would always be the last
guy in the room to lose his temper, to say the wrong thing. But as
the title character in the paranoid thriller "Michael Clayton,"
there's a hum of anger to Clooney's performance, like the sound of
fluorescent light. Always on.
As Michael Clayton, a fixer for a big New York law firm, Clooney
infuses every word and deed with the weighted-down feeling of a man
who's drowning. Clooney gained 30 or 40 pounds to play another
troubled character in "Syriana," but looking fit and trim as ever,
he feels heavier here.
A former prosecutor who does the firm's dirtiest work ...