Why is George Clooney kissing Italian actress Violante Placido so passionately ? Has he dumped Elisabetta Canalis and set his fickle heart on this fiery Italian beauty ? Nothing of the sort! George is only playing the love interest in a new movie called The American and what you have just seen is a hot love scene from it, though, for good measure, Elisabetta has now decided to live nearby and keep tabs on him.