John Goodman talks about working with George Clooney on Monuments Men

LOS ANGELES—“Working with George (Clooney) is like working for your favorite 5-year-old kid,” John Goodman said of being directed for the first time by the actor-director in “The Monuments Men.” “He knows what he wants. It’s like play. It was great.”
“The Monuments Men,” which was co-written by George based on a book chronicling how a crew of art historians and museum curators hunted down works of art stolen by Nazis before Hitler destroys them, pits John with Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Bill Murray and Jean Dujardin. George stars in the film, too.
“It was probably the most fun I ever had making a movie because of George, Matt Damon and Bill Murray sitting around,” admitted John, smiling and casually dressed on a recent morning at The London Hotel in New York. The actor took off his blazer and rolled up his sleeves when he sat down. “We would just sit around and crack jokes.”
Busy career
He was in a good mood, cracking jokes in a deadpan manner or dishing them with a grin. Complimented about his busy career, John said, “So far, in the last couple of years, it seems to have gone that way. I can turn down a lot more than I used to. I used to grab anything for fear of not working. But there’s a lot of good people out there. This year, I got to work with George Clooney and that was great.”
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