Austin Abrams wasn’t intimidated when he found out his role in “ Wolfs ” would require him to wear only underwear and crew socks for the first half of the film. After all, he had previously stripped down to gold spandex shorts for a memorable homoerotic dance number on the HBO hit “Euphoria.”

A generation ago, George Clooney worked with Brad Pitt in Vegas on a heist, in 2001, for director Steven Soderbergh’s remake of “Ocean’s Eleven.”People went to theaters to see it, and lives were not changed,