George Clooney is done with romantic films: ‘I’m not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men’

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new interview with “60 Minutes” that he’s moved on from a certain movie genre.“Look, I’m 63 years old. I’m not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men.

That’s not my job,” Clooney said. “I’m not doing romantic films anymore.”Clooney has had leading roles in multiple rom-coms over the years including “One Fine Day” (1996), “Intolerable Cruelty” (2003)” and “Ticket to Paradise” (2022).While promoting the flick co-starring Julia Roberts, Clooney told CNN that he returned to the rom-com genre because of real-world events.“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 said 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 same month, Clooney said that Universal Pictures “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.