George Clooney has revealed he turned to his uncle from Kentucky for help getting into character for 'O Brother, Where Art Thou'. Show By Variety, Reuters 2 Oct 2015 - 10:57 AM UPDATED 18 Nov 2022 - 4:11 PM Tweet When George Clooney was cast in the Coen Brothers' 2000 comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou, he turned to his Kentucky-based Uncle Jack for research. When Clooney was cast in the film, he sent the script to his uncle, with instructions that he read it out loud on tape. His uncle protested, saying he didn't sound like that, but helped Clooney anyway. "I threw the script away and used the tape recorder," Clooney recalled September 29 at a 15th anniversary reunion with the cast at Alice Tully Hall at the New York Film Festival. "After two months of shooting, Joel and Ethan came over and they're like, 'You say every word exactly as written except you don't say 'hell' and you don't say 'damn'." That's when Clooney realised what his Baptist uncle had done. "He rewrote the Coen brothers," Clooney said. The line got one of many big laughs. After a screening, Clooney was joined onstage with Joel and Ethan Coen, co-stars Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro and director of photography Roger Deakins for a reunion.
Joel said that the script didn't start out as a story inspired by Homer's 'The Odyssey'. "It started with a three-saps on the run movie," Joel said. "At a certain point, we looked at each other and said, 'They are trying to get home - let's just call it 'The Odyssey'." "In certain respects," Ethan explained, "we were thinking more about The Wizard of Oz," he said, alluding to the line, "There's no place like home." Nelson recalled visiting Joel's house and seeing a copy of "The Odyssey" with a post-it note that read, "Soon to be a motion picture by Joel and Ethan Coen." He considered the role his big break in Hollywood. "I felt like the luckiest person in the world, to get to be directed by him," he said. "These guys were mentors. They were so kind and generous." When Joel introduced O Brother, he threatened to go into the editing room to make more cuts, but he said after the screening that he enjoyed re-watching it. "Most of what you notice is editing things you would do a little different," he said. "I could have made more big faces," joked Nelson. "I think we were fined by SAG," chimed in Turturro. "When we first started doing the film," Clooney said, "the first day was when I got the corn knocked out of me by John Goodman. I was really intimidated working with these guys. I was playing it like an idiot. Joel came over and said, 'No! No! No! You're the smartest guy in the room.'" Watch 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'Friday 25 November, 11:20pm on SBS World Movies / No catch-up at SBS On Demand M  REVIEW O Brother, Where Art Thou review: Original, unusual and entertaining An odyssey full of surprises See more SBS Movies newsMORE AT SBS: Italian Cinema: SBS World Movies Showcase A celebration of Italian cinema, with gripping and thought-provoking contemporary Italian films all week on SBS World Movies. Heists: SBS World Movies SBS World Movies brings you a week of heist movies where the heroes are always the crooks. From the gambling dens of New York's Chinatown to the London underbelly, there's a heist around every corner of the globe this week on World Movies. SBS World Movies: The Cost of War See the very best in war films from all over the world at SBS World Movies (and SBS On Demand), exploring different perspectives and stories of war. Fall in Love with Film Again on SBS World Movies Sit back, relax and enjoy as SBS World Movies serves up some of the biggest and most entertaining films to fill your summer, featuring a collection of star-studded, award-winning films, and much-loved modern classics. Send a shiver up your spine with this feast of fear From cult horror movies to a Dracula documentary, SBS VICELAND, SBS World Movies and SBS On Demand are ready to delight devotees of dread. SBS World Movies celebrates Scandinavian Cinema SBS World Movies transports you to the far north with a week of movie doubles. Join us for double the thrills of Scandinavian Cinema. Weeknights from 17 October. Great documentaries to stimulate your senses, and prepare for the 2022 Antenna Film Festival Get set for this year’s Antenna Documentary Film Festival with past favourites now streaming at SBS On Demand Close Encounters on SBS World Movies Sexy Saturday nights continue as SBS World Movies explores sexuality and desire from diverse perspectives - with tantalising stories of love and lust from around the world. What does the blind man say in O Brother, Where Art Thou?Blind Seer : You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains. You will find a fortune, though it will not be the one you seek.
What do the characters in O Brother, Where Art Thou represent?In O Brother, Where Art Thou?, the protagonist Ulysses Everett McGill serves jail time with his two convict friends, Pete Hogwallop and Delmar O'Donnell. Symbolizing the escape from danger all throughout the Odyssey, the convicts escape from the chain-gang and run off towards a promising treasure.
Is it really George Clooney singing in O Brother?George Clooney practiced his singing for weeks, but in the end his singing voice was dubbed by country blues singer Dan Tyminski. The song "Man of Constant Sorrow" was first published in 1913 by the blind Richard Burnett.
Who does John Goodman represent in O Brother, Where Art Thou?John Goodman as Daniel "Big Dan" Teague, a one-eyed mugger and Ku Klux Klan member who masquerades as a Bible salesman. He corresponds to the cyclops Polyphemus in the Odyssey. Holly Hunter as Penny Wharvey-McGill, Everett's ex-wife.
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