Clooney described how he gave cash to his friends and said that he showed them a map of all the places he's been able to visit in the world, thanks to their support.
Actor George Clooney came out to help some of his closest friends after he came into a truckload of cash. The actor gifted 14 of his friends $1 million each after his film Gravity became a huge hit at the box office.
In a recent interview with GQ, Clooney revealed that he had just met his now-wife Amal at the time, and didn’t really have anyone but his friends to thank for his massive success so he expressed his gratitude by handing them bags full of cash.
He told GQ, "I thought, what I do have are these guys who've all, over a period of 35 years, helped me in one way or another. I've slept on their couches when I was broke. They loaned me money when I was broke. They helped me when I needed help over the years. And I've helped them over the years."
He further added, "I thought, you know, without them I don’t have any of this. And we’re all really close, and I just thought basically if I get hit by a bus, they’re all in the will. So why the f--- am I waiting to get hit by a bus?"
Clooney described how he gave cash to his friends and said that he showed them a map of all the places he's been able to visit in the world, thanks to their support.
"I said, 'How do you repay people like that?' And I said, 'Oh, well: How about a million bucks?'" he concluded. "And the fun part about it was: That was the 27th, the 28th of September. A year later, on the 27th of September, just by happenstance, was the day I got married."
Talking about Gravity's success, Clooney said that nobody expected it to be so profitable and so "they gave us percentages of the movie".
For the uninformed, Gravity ended up making over $700 million worldwide. On the work front, Clooney will return as director and actor of The Midnight Sky for Netflix, a film that has been described as Gravity meets The Revenant.
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