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It just occurred to me a few minutes ago that George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis are going to walk the red carpet for the Emmys tonight, and they will likely be the biggest A-list couple there. The A-list part comes from Clooney, of course. I’m not calling Eli “A-List” unless we’re talking about golddigging cokewhores. But I imagine they will be one of the most photographed and talked-about couple there (Clooney is getting a humanitarian award), and that’s kind of sad. I mean, who else are we really going to get excited about? Katherine Heigl? I doubt she’s even coming, because she’s a big “movie star” now. Sure, I’ll be thrilled to see Jon Hamm and all of the Mad Men people and the Modern Family people, but it just seems like the Emmys are rushed this year and no one is really paying attention. Meh.

Anyway, back to Clooney… you know he’s got a film coming this week, right? It’s called The American, and he’s barely promoted it at all. LaineyGossip theorized that Clooney isn’t promoting it because it sucks. That’s a solid theory, I think, because while it doesn’t look awful, it doesn’t really look a solid film either. Just kind of boring and there and an excuse for Clooney to wander around Italy. Anyway, since there has been a dearth of Clooney promotion, his costars get to speak. Like his “love interest” in the film, an Italian actress named Violante Placido. She plays a prostitute. Wow, how NOT like Clooney’s real life, eh? According to this chick, Clooney was really awkward in their love scene:

For most women, getting naked with George Clooney would be intimidating. But for his costar in the upcoming thriller The American, there was no such trepidation – on her part, at least.

“He confessed … that he didn’t do lots of sex scenes,” Violante Placido, who plays prostitute Clara and Clooney’s love interest in the film, tells PEOPLE. “I felt like this was in a way something new to him, he wasn’t that experienced.”

She says the relatively graphic love scene came together well, though, once they agreed to trust each other.

“We had to find a way to make it natural and let your body speak somehow,” Placido says. “We were very open to one another to try and make it work. We just said ‘let’s trust each other’ and we did. I felt like we had to let ourselves go.”

Ultimately, she says, the scene was an important one to get right.

“It had to look real; it is the turning point for the two characters,” she says. “I can tell you that watching it, I don’t feel as calm as I did when I was on set filming it. Just watching it is a little like … wow.”

In the film, Clooney plays Jack, a professional killer attempting to escape his trade after one last assignment to the Italian countryside. The movie hits theaters Sept. 1.

From People

Clooney found it strange to enact a passionate love scene with a hooker? Um, is he losing it? Beyond that, I find it weird that someone, anyone would talk about Clooney not being good in love scenes, considering his status as a romantic lead is unquestionable, in my opinion. He’s able to have chemistry with nearly all of his leading ladies, and his romantic scenes with Jennifer Lopez in Out of Sight still make my top five of the Best Film Sex Scenes Ever.

Here’s Clooney’s costar, this Violante chick. She’s pretty. But maybe she doesn’t have that trashy quality he gets hot for? She looks like a classic beauty: