George Clooney Explains How <em>Suburbicon</em> Happened
In an interview, the director laid out his concept of marrying a Coen brothers script with a real-life incident of racism in 1950s America.
This story contains spoilers for the plot of Suburbicon.
When George Clooney first worked on Suburbicon, he was attached as an actor. His frequent collaborators, the Coen brothers, had cast him in the small role of a crafty insurance investigator in a dark 1950s comedy about a murder plot gone wrong. The project, planned in the mid-2000s, never came to fruition, and the Coens and Clooney moved on to other things (though they continued making movies together). Years later, Clooney and his writing partner Grant Heslov began early work on about the Myers—an African American family who moved into a postwar, suburban Pennsylvania community and faced harassment and violence from their white neighbors.
