George Clooney: “I’m Not Doing Romantic Films Anymore”
deadline.comGeorge Clooney spoke with 60 Minutes tonight about the upcoming Broadway adaptation of his Oscar-nominated movie, Good Night, and Good Luck.
In the play Clooney, now 63, plays newsman Edward R. Murrow, a role he said he was not ready to play when he directed the film in 2005. “Murrow had a gravitas to him that at 42 years old I didn’t — I wasn’t able to pull off,” he told 60 Minutes’ Jon Wertheim.
The flip side of that, said Clooney, is that there are roles he once played for which he’s now no longer a fit. “Look, I’m 63 years old,” the actor told Wertheim. “I’m not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men.
That’s not my job. I’m not doing romantic films anymore.” Not that he’s been doing many, anyway. While Clooney was promoting Ticket to Paradise in 2022, he noted that he hadn’t made a romantic comedy since 1996.
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