American actor George Clooney was recently hospitalized with pancreatitis after dropping nearly 28 pounds for his forthcoming film, “The Midnight Sky”.
Clooney lost weight for his role in the film, during which he stars as an astronomer who survives an apocalyptic event.
However, four days before he was due to report to set, he was rushed to the hospital with stomach pains, eventually diagnosed as pancreatitis, and spent weeks recovering, Mirror reports.
Clooney, who also directs the film, told the tabloid: "I think I was trying too hard to lose the weight quickly and probably wasn’t taking care of myself,”.
He added: “It took a few weeks to get better and as a director, it isn't so easy because you need energy. We were out on this glacier in Finland, which made it a lot harder work. But it certainly helped with the character.”
Clooney had also to grow a beard for the role, which apparently didn’t do him any favors with his wife Amal.
The Clooneys are parents to twins Alexander and Ella, 3, and have been spending the coronavirus pandemic in the Hollywood Hills.
He added: “I grew a big ugly beard and my son loved it because he would hide things in it, which I wouldn’t know about until I got to work and I’d be like, ‘Oh, there’s a popsicle stuck in my beard.’ But my wife and daughter were really happy when it came off because it was very hard to find a face underneath all that mess.”
Unfortunately, Clooney’s ascetic approach to “The Midnight Sky” didn’t do the film any favors with critics: It’s sitting at a 58 percent critic’s score from 36 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes ahead of its December 23 release.
It also stars Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demián Bichir, Kyle Chandler, and Caoilinn Springall. With talent like that, you don’t want to miss this film, so here’s what to know about Netflix’s The Midnight
The Midnight Sky script is adapted by Mark L. Smith from Lily Brooks-Dalton’s novel, "Good Morning, Midnight".
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