The privilege of working with legends is not lost on Turner, who isn’t shy about asking for advice or observing people’s methods. “They feel a great sense of responsibility, not just for their jobs individually, but for the industry as a whole,” he says. “They welcome you into the community, and it’s a real pleasure being part of it.” Turner was recently cast in A Prayer for the Dying. If superstardom is in his future, he plans on following the Clooney method for staying grounded: “George’s friends are still his friends from when he was like 18 years old, and even though he’s famous, he’s the same guy. If I met George Clooney in 1990, he’d be the same bloke as the man I worked with 30 years later. I’m going to stay the same. Same as George and Tom and Gary. I’m so lucky that I have a wonderful group of friends and family. Even if I thought about getting too cocky, they’d let me know.” Just don’t ask Turner to row crew again. “What we did was so special. Those guys are mates for life,” he says of his Boys in the Boat costars. “Also, if I went and rowed on the Thames now, George Clooney wouldn’t be screaming at me with a megaphone to do it better, so it wouldn’t be as fun.”