George Clooney talks about the story of The Ides of March
George Clooney: The movie is about Ryan Gosling's character. And we're gonna take him on a journey that good classic movie storytelling does. Which is you start him out as a true believer in something very important and very big. And then bit by bit you start to take those things away. By people that are better at it than he is. And he becomes the master of it and gives away only his soul to win. And that to us was a very, you know, that's what was the exciting part of this story.
I would call it a political thriller. I wouldn't think of it necessarily as a political movie. Because, I suppose if you're a democrat, you'd like best the beginning of the movie. And if you're a republican you'd like best the end. So, I think it sort of walks that line of picking on everybody. So if it's a political movie. It's a political movie without pressing the specific agendas.
