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 John Krasinski
Spotlight By: Andrea Tuccillo John Krasinski is co-starring in a movie with two of the biggest A-listers around—George Clooney and Renee Zellweger—and yet he is still as humble and as down-to-earth as always. He was stunned, shocked even, when Clooney handpicked him to take on the role of college football hero Carter Rutherford in the screwball comedy Leatherheads. Especially since Clooney is known to be a notorious prankster. “I will be dead honest and this sounds incredibly crazy but it’s true,” Krasinski says. “I called my manager one day and I thought ‘Oh my God, this is it. This is George Clooney’s biggest prank ever. Getting some kid from TV and getting him to believe that he is actually on a set with big movie stars and a big crew, and [George is] friends with Renee so he got her in on it.’ After therapy I realized that wasn’t true. No, I was really terrified that this whole thing might be some kind of weird prank. That’s how scared of him I was.” Leatherheads is set in 1925 and follows the freewheeling game of football just before it became legitimized with rules and regulations. Clooney plays Dodge Connelly, the aging star of the Duluth Bulldogs looking for a way to keep his football dreams alive. Krasinski is Carter, the popular young athlete who could be Dodge’s ticket to fortune. However, Carter could also be the ticket for one reporter’s lucky break. Renee Zellweger plays Lexie Littleton, a sassy journalist set out to uncover a secret from Carter’s war-hero past. Krasinski believes it was his role as Jim Halpert on The Office that helped him snag the part in Leatherheads. “I was given an amazing opportunity when I was on the show which is to play a character that is both sometimes funny and sometimes dramatic and I think that’s the best gift you could get as an actor, especially for a first role because it’s definitely how people see you,” he says. “That allowed George to see me as a potential person who could play a romantic character. Playing this character was a blast. Dressing up in actual costumes rather than a shirt and tie everyday and having a haircut for the first time was a big change for me and really helped my acting I think.” The old-fashioned period piece aims to evoke feelings of the classic screwball comedies so Clooney gave all of his actors a bit of “homework” to help them further understand the style he wanted to achieve. “He gave us a list of movies to see and to be honest that was the biggest background work that I did, not that I’m that much of a background guy,” Krasinski says. “But watching those movies you really get a sense of two things: one is the acting style and how different it is, ... |
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