George Clooney chats to Brian Lloyd about directing 1930's sporting period drama 'The Boys in the Boat' alongside the movie's star, Callum Turner.
On the run-up to the 1936 Olympics, rowing coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton) of the University of Washington has two teams he can select one from - one is the well-bred, patrician team and the alternate is the scholarship, working-class team led by Joe Rantz (Callum Turner), an engineering student whose family effectively abandoned him during the Great Depression. Through perseverance and tenacity, Joe fights his way through the social stigma of his times and makes his way into the history books...
'The Boys in the Boat' is in cinemas on January 12th.
