George Clooney has heard what some people think about his acting, and he says that he just doesn’t care.
The actor addressed this criticism in a new Vanity Fair interview about his starring role in the upcoming Netflix film, Jay Kelly. Written by Noah Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, it’s a story to which the 63-year-old Clooney can relate: a wildly famous actor in his 60s who faces claims of being a one-trick pony en route to collecting a tribute award at an Italian film festival.
“Do people say that I only play myself? I don’t give a shit,” Clooney told Vanity Fair. “There aren’t that many guys in my age group that are allowed to do both broad comedies like O Brother [Where Art Thou?] and then do Michael Clayton or Syriana. So if that means I’m playing myself all the time, I don’t give a shit,” adding what’s characterized as a key line from Jay Kelly, “Have you ever tried playing yourself? It’s hard to do.”
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The actor went on to say that not achieving success until his 30s helped give him a good perspective on “how fleeting all of it is and how little it has to do with you, quite honestly.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Clooney praised one of his Jay Kelly co-stars, Adam Sandler, whom he called “a beautiful, heartfelt, soulful actor.” Adding that Sandler is not just “some goofy comedian,” he recalled constantly reminding the cast not to refer to him as “Sand Man.”
Jay Kelly, which also stars Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig, Isla Fisher, Riley Keough, Louis Partridge, Billy Crudup, Grace Edwards, and more, is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival later this month and will release in select US theaters on November 14th before streaming on Netflix starting December 5th.
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