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George Clooney on his turn to directing: 'As you get older you need other things'

George Clooney has come a long way since ER, with a host of film credits, two Oscars, plus impressive activism credentials and a picture-perfect family. His latest project - directing sports movie The Boys in the Boat, about a group of young rowers thrust in Hitler's Olympics.

The Hollywood star steps behind the camera for his latest project, The Boys In The Boat, a sports movie about an underdog rowing team, thrust into the spotlight of Hitler's Olympics as they compete for gold. Starting out as a TV extra in 1978, before going on to semi-regular appearances in sitcom Roseanne and a lead part in the humorously titled Return Of The Killer Tomatoes, his breakout role came in medical drama ER. British actor Callum Turner, who plays real-life rower Joe Rantz in the movie, tells Sky News working with the superstar director was "a wonderful experience".

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