By Mark Wineka
Salisbury Post
Oscar winners George Clooney and Renee Zellweger will stop in Salisbury next Wednesday during a promotional tour for the movie “Leatherheads,” parts of which were filmed in Salisbury and Spencer.
The movie’s co-stars will appear at a press conference at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Salisbury Station, 215 Depot St., but the event is open to the public.
“Leatherheads,” a romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the beginnings of pro football in America in 1925, will be nationally released April 4.
The film was shot at several different locations in the Carolinas, and Salisbury is the third stop of the “Whistle Stop Express” tour.
Other stops include Duluth, Minn., Maysville, Ky., and Greenville, S.C.
Clooney plays Dodge Connolly, a brash, charming football hero determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums.
Zellweger stars as Lexie Littleton, a “spitfire newswoman” who suspects there are holes in Connolly’s star player’s war story, a press release said.
“As the new game of pro football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams,’ the promotional material says.
Parts of the movie were filmed at Historic Salisbury Foundation’s depot and at the N.C. Transportation Museum at Spencer Shops.
Contact Mark Wineka at 704-797-4263 or mwineka@salisburypost.com.