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(To George) The film featured a song from your auntie Rosemary Clooney and she was mentioned in one scene. How much influence was she for you?

GEORGE: She was a big influence. I moved out from Kentucky and I lived with her for the first years I was trying to be an actor. I was a struggling actor living in Beverly Hills…. that was strange! Anyway, she taught me a lot about the trappings of fame. She learnt it the hard way, she didn’t tell me how to deal with it, and you just saw it from her life. She was famous and then not famous. She realised she didn’t become less of a singer along the way and she realised that things changed, having nothing to do with this. I learnt a lot from her. She wasn’t ill, and we didn’t know she was ill when we shot that scene in which we put her name, we just thought we'd put it in because it was factual in the film. But after [that] she got sick and she passed away about two weeks before we finished the film. I knew they were trying to find a song that Rosemary had sung to be put at the end, but only if it could be the right song. And then I found this version of THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE THE SHOW BUSINESS and I thought this was the perfect song. Although I wanted to change the line, “There is only one business like the show business”. It is great. It is fun to be able to do that for her. She was a big part of my life.

(To Sam) How did you feel knowing that you had the support of George Clooney behind you and knowing that he was actually pushing for you to be the star of the movie?

SAM: It was kind of moving. It was amazing. It is rare in Hollywood that someone supports you in the way George did, so I didn’t want to disappoint him. It was a big thrill. I can’t go on enough about what George did for me. He is pretty phenomenal.

GEORGE: I got him cheap! That’s the trick!

(To George) How did you get Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore to play a role in the film, and Brad Pitt and Matt Damon to do cameos?

George: I had to pay Brad and Matt 20 million each and they both auditioned for the role! Actually, we were on tour with OCEAN'S 11 and we were talking about THE DATING GAME, saying that people like Tom Selleck went on the game and he didn’t get picked. So I thought it would be funny if these guys came out, also because the third contestant was our storyboard guy John Todd Anderson - that was a pure simple favour. They just flew to Montreal for the day. Till today I still can’t believe that they showed up for a shot in which we didn’t even stop the camera on, but that shows what sort of great friends they are. For the other two, Julia and Drew, it is another story. You have to understand that when we were ready to start to work, I got calls from almost every actress in town, talking about the roles, because everybody had known about it and they weren’t calling because they wanted to work with me as a director, because they had no idea, but because these were great parts. So when I called Julia she asked me, “Is this for Patricia? Because if it is, I am doing it!” and almost the same thing happened with Drew.

(To George) Which is the strangest experience, being told how to make a sex scene or telling other people in your own film, how to get it on?

GEORGE: (laughing) I like to tell people how to get it on!! It’s much more fun!! It is weird. It is always weird. The love scenes are always weird! The advantage with Drew and Sam is that they know each other, so they were more comfortable.

SAM: Yes, there is some snogging in CHARLIE’S ANGELS. Can I say snogging?

GEORGE: There were [some] really weird moments. For example there is a scene that we cut out, where Chuck is masturbating in a shower and the real Chuck was on the set that day. He's sitting behind me and Sam is in the shower, you know, going like this in the shower (he starts demonstrating) and we all felt kind of uncomfortable… when I get a tap on my shoulders in the middle of the shot and Chuck is going (shouting) “faster, faster!” Way too much information!

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