It was an “ER” reunion.
George Clooney, 63, reconnected with a number of of his former “ER” co-stars on the Broadway premiere of his “Good Night, and Good Luck” play on Thursday, April 3.
Included within the Prepare dinner County Normal Hospital gathering have been Clooney (Dr. Doug Ross), Julianna Margulies (Nurse Carol Hathaway), Anthony Edwards (Dr. Mark Greene), and Noah Wyle (Dr. John Carter).
The 4 former co-stars have been pictured catching up on the New York Public Library through the play’s afterparty following Clooney’s official Broadway debut, per Individuals. The get-together got here nearly precisely 16 years after the ultimate episode of “ER” on April 2, 2009.
However whereas the evening might have been about celebrating Clooney and his “Good Night, and Good Luck” adaptation, he was not the one former “ER” star to hit the Broadway stage in current months.
Margulies, 58, appeared on Broadway within the romantic manufacturing “Left on Tenth” final yr, and he or she used her expertise with the Theater District to offer Clooney some recommendation concerning the Nice White Approach.
“I just emailed him and said, ‘I’m so proud of you. You don’t have to do this,’” she instructed Individuals in October. “It’s scary, you know, being on Broadway. And the world we live in now, everyone’s a judge, and you have to block all that out and do your work.”
“And so, I’m really proud of him for picking a hard road,” she added on the time. “It’s not easy work, and I’m really impressed that he’s doing it.”
As for Clooney, he in contrast appearing on “ER” for 5 seasons to portraying his character in “Good Night, and Good Luck” throughout an look on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in February.
“It’s weird,” the two-time Oscar winner stated on the time. “When I did ‘ER,’ we’d do 12 pages a day of medical dialogue, and you could just come in and whip it out. I was 30.”
“Now I can’t remember anything,” he continued. “Honest to God, literally, these are very famous speeches that Murrow wrote and I start to do them and I just sit there going, ‘Uhhh … I don’t remember.’ It’s sheer panic.”
The “Gravity” actor’s stage manufacturing of “Good Night, and Good Luck” is a direct adaptation of the 2005 hit Oscar-nominated movie of the identical identify that he starred in. It follows the true story of CBS Information journalist Edward R. Murrow and his beautiful exposé on Senator Joseph McCarthy through the Purple Scare of the Nineteen Fifties.
Clooney portrayed the producer Fred W. Pleasant within the unique movie however now stars as Murrow within the stage adaptation. And whereas the challenge marks the actor’s Broadway debut and first theater function in nearly 40 years, it was met with blended critiques.
“‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ the play that opened Thursday at the Winter Garden Theatre, is a big story with a huge set and an enormous star,” The Publish’s theater critic, Johnny Oleksinski, wrote.
“So it comes as a surprise that the impression left by the dusty historical drama as the audience pours out onto Broadway is so small and fleeting,” he added. “Good Night, and What’s For Dinner?”
In the meantime, the brand new play additionally made headlines for various causes when it was revealed that Clooney’s spouse of virtually 11 years, Amal Clooney, 47, was not on the premiere to help her husband.
Clooney later instructed reporters it was as a result of she was at dwelling watching their 7-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella.
