George Clooney remembers showing up drunk after late night drinking with Rande Gerber

During a virtual reunion for the 25th anniversary of the film “One Fine Day”, George Clooney revealed that he was not in good shape one day on set.

Speaking to costar Michelle Pfeiffer for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Clooney recalled coming to work after a night throwing cocktails with her friend and longtime Cindy Crawford husband Rande Gerber.

“The other thing about the movie was, with very rare exceptions, that we were doing two different movies. I was in one world and I was working, and you were in another world and working,” he said. he started, referring to the fact that the two a lot of movies separated from each other.

“I was in New York, staying at the Morgans Hotel, and my friend Rande Gerber, who is now my partner in the tequila business – I had a day off. So I had a few drinks. “, he continued. “We lay awake and had some vodka or something. Then I got home at 1 in the morning, and I was like ‘Oh s -.’ I was hammered enough. “

“I woke up at 5 in the morning. I was like, ‘I feel good.’ Then I looked at myself in the mirror and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m still drunk,'” added Clooney. “I got on the set, and we walked over to the trailer and I sat down and you looked at me. What are you saying?’ And I was like, ‘I didn’t know we were going to work today. And you say, ‘You’re still drunk. It’s a scene we did at first where you and I talk both ways. I kept trying to spray as much mouth spray as I could because I felt like a …

“Like a brewery,” Pfeiffer interrupted, before Clooney said it was more of a “distillery.” She also remembers another day when he showed up with a “broken face,” an injury Clooney suffered while playing basketball with the team during a lunch break.

"I took an elbow in the face of one of the crew members, and it broke my orbit, “he added.” And I was like, ‘I can still shoot.’ I remember we shot scenes where we blocked half of my face with a child. “

It’s been 25 years since the film’s release and just as long as Pfeiffer and Clooney have seen each other in person, she claimed.

“I think it was one of your plans, actually. It’s called the restraining order,” Clooney joked, before revealing how they met long before they starred together in the 1996 movie. “I met you in 1982 when I was dating your sister, Dedee. You lived in Santa Monica, and she lived above the garage. I remember because it was so exciting to see your career take off. All of a sudden it was ‘Scarface’ and ‘Ladyhawke’. I just remember thinking, I met someone whose career had just exploded. “

Clooney can now be seen in “The Midnight Sky” on Netflix, while Pfeiffer’s “French Exit” hits theaters on February 12.