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Michael Clayton (George Clooney) makes good money at Kenner, Bach and Ledeen, one of those vast Manhattan law factories, but he's never made partner. And is unlikely to do so. Partly that's a matter of class. He's a cop's son and the product of the Fordham Law school, not Yale or Harvard. Partly it's a matter of his legal - or should we say marginally illegal? - services to the firm. He is its smooth, cool fixer, the guy who cleans up the messes - hit-and-run driving cases, ugly divorces, immigration muddles - in which the firm...
...very good character, one we've not previously encountered at the movies, and Clooney plays him with a wonderfully calm subtlety. The man never sweats or, for that matter, raises his voice when the pressure is on him, which it almost always is. At most, he registers anxiety with an almost imperceptible flicker of his eyes. When we meet him, the firm's leading litigator, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) has suffered a serious meltdown in Milwaukee - in the the midst of taking a deposition he has stripped naked and run out babbling into a snowy parking lot. Arthur has been...
...something of a shell. You sense a curious (and not unsympathetic) naivety in Swinton's corporate lawyer, especially in the scenes where, in private, she works the human kinks out of her public statements ensuring that they remain bland and full of falsity. Above all, the film allows Clooney's character his somewhat tormented relationship with his family real depth. He has moved up and away from them, and there are resentments on both sides. Yet blood is thicker than the watery morality he has embraced in his maturity. And eventually it is family that aids in rescuing him from...
...heartthrob, but he's also a serious Darfur activist who knows what it's like to be different in high school. His latest movie, Michael Clayton, opens Oct. 12. George Clooney will now take your questions...
...more from Clooney and to subscribe to the 10 Questions podcast on iTunes, go to time.com/10questions. TIME's interview with the actor continues on the next page. Read the extra questions for George Clooney...