Sunday 29 May 2022 12:25 AM EMILY PRESCOTT: George Clooney's rowing movies hits choppy water trends now

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George Clooney’s latest movie is about a rowing team who overcome their struggles to win Olympic gold – but I’m told some of the actors hired as extras have failed to make the grade as oarsmen.

Earlier this year, film firm Casting Collective put out an urgent rallying cry for extras aged 18 to 30 with a ‘good level of experience’ of rowing and, ideally, who were in a club.

But the Ocean’s Eleven star, who is directing The Boys In The Boat, is understood to have relieved some of the background cast of their roles after realising they weren’t up to scratch. Sources close to the movie, which was last week filming at Molesey Boat Club on the River Thames, say it has left Clooney with a headache as it has already proved tough to find suitable actors, let alone last-minute replacements. Casting Collective declined to comment.