Photo: Maya Dehlin Spach/WireImage
Is this his way of getting in character for Ocean’s Fourteen? At Jay Kelly’s Los Angeles premiere, George Clooney offered a mini performance review of the Louvre jewelry heist. “They seem to have done a pretty good job of getting away with it,” he told Variety on the red carpet. He added that he had watched “the film” of the thieves’ seven-minute robbery and escape, joking that he should’ve been in the bucket lift. The heist was “cool,” he added, before correcting himself and making an unconvincing face: “I mean, it’s terrible.”
Ultimately, as a self-described “professional thief,” Clooney said he “was very proud of those guys.” He acknowledged the comparisons of the theft to the plot of the Ocean’s franchise as “pretty funny.” “It really was like it, in the middle of broad daylight,” he remarked. “Crazy. With all the tourists there, you know?” Is that professional respect that we’re detecting in his tone? Apparently, we won’t have to wait too long to see if Danny Ocean can one-up real-life robbers. Clooney confirmed to Variety that the script for the sequel is already done. “We’re in great shape. It’s just scheduling now, and we’ll get that together by next year,” he said. If anyone else is planning to steal any crown jewels, they might want to stay tuned for that release date so they don’t have to compete with Clooney for heist headlines.
