George Clooney jokes about his age as he braves rain for The Boys in the Boat London premiere

George Clooney joked about age as he braved the rain for The Boys in the Boat London premiere.Source: PA

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00:00 I loved the book. We loved the book. It was a huge, huge, massive bestseller.

00:04 And it'd been a long time coming, and when we got the script, we thought it was a really...

00:09 You know, we kind of need a good story. We kind of need a nice story right now in the world.

00:15 And so it felt like it was a good time to do a story like this.

00:18 I did The Perfect Storm about 20 years ago. No more than that, I guess.

00:22 And listen, once you're in the water, everything slows down, as you can imagine.

00:27 So it was a lot of work. But all those poor guys, we made them... We hurt them.

00:32 We made them suffer out there.

00:34 Were you tempted to get in?

00:35 No! Are you kidding? I'm 62. You know what I'm tempted to do?

00:38 Go home, put on something warm, have a glass of wine, young, tall, handsome guys.

00:44 I got no time for them. Are you kidding? We're taking jobs away.

00:47 No, listen, they were great. And we really did put them through the paces.

00:51 We trained them for months to learn how to row. It's not something you just jump in and do.

00:56 So I feel very lucky that I got to.