In a recent interview with GQ UK, George Clooney shared his concerns about corporations taking over Hollywood. The actor said Paramount Pictures shares likenesses with a “mom-and-pop shop” nowadays.

“Paramount’s one of the great original studios,” Clooney said when speaking about changes in Hollywood. “But some of it you just have no say in. Because the business, it’s all getting eaten up. It’s like everything — it’s all getting eaten up by big Walmarts and Amazons around the world. Our version of mom-and-pop shops in a small town is Paramount.”

Clooney continued on the topic of actors in the modern industry: “They haven’t developed stars the way the studio system used to,” he said. “We kind of were at the very end of that, where you could work at a studio and do three or four films, and there was some plan to it. And I don’t think that’s necessarily the case any more. So it’s harder for you to sell somebody something on the back of a star.”

Clooney reflected on his time in hit series ‘ER,’ where he first made a name for himself. “But it’s a great time as a young actor. Because when I was a young actor, if you looked at the back of the ‘LA Times’ every Monday morning they had the 64 shows that were made. And of those 64 shows, if you’re actually on one of them, you’re trying to be in the top 20 to keep your show on the air. But that was it. And then the studios were doing five films a year. Now there are 600 shows, so there’s a lot more work for actors.”

Clooney also touched on his new film ‘Wolfs’ with co-star and closest friend Brad Pitt: “It’s been like 40 [years] for us already, which is fucking scary,” Clooney said. “I remember I talked to [Matt] Damon about this 25 years ago, when he first hit with his movie and won the Oscar. I was like, ‘Just know that if you get a 10-year career, playing at that level, it’s an absolute jackpot.’ Nobody sustains it much longer than that. So yeah, I’m surprised that I still have the work.”

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