Romance is useless to George Clooney.
The Oscar actor revealed in his new interview with “60 Minutes” that he’s moved on from a sure film style.
“Look, I’m 63 years old. I’m not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men. That’s not my job,” Clooney mentioned. “I’m not doing romantic films anymore.”
Clooney has had main roles in a number of rom-coms over time together with “One Fine Day” (1996), “Intolerable Cruelty” (2003)” and “Ticket to Paradise” (2022).
Whereas selling the flick co-starring Julia Roberts, Clooney advised CNN that he returned to the rom-com style due to real-world occasions.
“I got sent the script and you know, we’ve had a lot of dark things going on in the world. And I always feel that films try to reflect that, often,” he mentioned in Oct. 2022. “They’re usually late because it takes a couple of years to make a film.”
“It felt like we all needed a break. I needed a break,” Clooney added. “I needed it to be a little carefree.”
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that very same month, Clooney mentioned that Common Photos “did a very brave thing” by releasing a rom-com at a time when there’s so few of them being made.
“These things are only going on streamers now, and they did a very brave thing to make a movie like this. We’re grateful. We’re hopeful,” he shared.
Clooney is presently making his Broadway debut within the manufacturing “Good Night, and Good Luck,” which relies on his 2005 film of the identical title.
Each the play and the film are about broadcast information legend Edward R. Murrow and his work throughout the witch hunts of Senator Joseph McCarthy within the Nineteen Fifties.
Clooney is enjoying Murrow within the stage manufacturing, which formally opens April 3.
When requested on “60 Minutes” if he needs he did Broadway “earlier in his career,” Clooney responded, “I don’t know that I could’ve. I wasn’t — I didn’t do the work required to get there.”
He added of loving being on stage, “Anybody who would deny that would just be a liar. I mean, there isn’t a single actor alive that wouldn’t have loved to have, you know, been on Broadway. So that’s — that’s the fun of it. It’s trickier the older you get. But why not?”
Final month, Clooney advised reporters in New York that he’s “nervous” about starring in his first Broadway present.
“The fun part about this is we get to do a play about a subject matter that’s very close to our hearts … which is telling the truth,” Clooney mentioned.
