George Clooney and Renee Zellweger are on the cover of the December 2007 issue of W Magazine. They are primarily there to promote their new movie ‘Leatherheads.’ They are also there to talk about getting stalked online and hookers. Here are some interview highlights.

GEORGE CLOONEY

On backing Barack Obama in the next presidential election:
“I spoke to him two days ago for a half hour. I think that he’s in that sort of doldrums, that midelection run, where you’re still trying to define what it is that you want to be.”

On hookers:
“I didn’t know what hookers were. We pulled up at the stoplight, and all of these girls came over, and they were like, ‘Hey, do you want to party?’ I looked at Miguel (his cousin) and I said, ‘Chicks love me, man! I’m on fire here!’”

On borrowing shots from directors he admires:
“I sent apology letters to Mike Nichols and Sidney Lumet after Confessions because I just directly stole shots. But then I told Joel and Ethan that I’ve stolen shots from them, and they’re like, ‘Yeah, we stole that shot from Capra.’”

On Zellweger’s role in the upcoming film ‘Leatherheads’:
“In movies, so often the guy gets to be the one with all the answers. In this one, she’s the smart one. Which was incredible acting on her part.”

On encouraging Gawker readers to post fake sightings of him:
“They had 6,000 locations for me in the first day.”

RENÉE ZELLWEGER

On her fear of letting Clooney down in ‘Leatherheads’:
“He doesn’t even know how important his opinion has been to me over the years. I don’t want to disappoint him.”

On Clooney’s direction in ‘Leatherheads’:
“I just get so proud that my head pops off. George is such a confident director, and he has no idea. And he’s a nice person. It gets boring hearing that, but it’s true. Every once in a while you get the real good guy. You’ve got your Jimmy Stewart. You’ve got your Paul Newman. Now you’ve got your George Clooney.”

On Gawker encouraging readers to post stars’ precise whereabouts:
“Oh, I log on every day to see where George is. Oh my God, get your things! He’s at Barneys!…The problem with that is with his schedule these days, the sightings were all true. He was in all 6,000 places that morning—before lunch.”