George Clooney Over the course of his film career spanning more than 30 years, he has kissed many actresses on screen. Julia Roberts in The great fraud (2001) or more recently in Passage to paradise (2022); to Catherine Zeta-Jones in Love is expensive (2003); to Jennifer Lopez in A dangerous romance (1998); or Michelle Pfeiffer below An unforgettable day (1996). However, he now says that at 64 he has already ruled out any role that involves kissing a woman. “I tried to follow in Paul Newman’s footsteps: I won’t kiss women anymore.” he said in an interview with the Daily Mail.
Newman decided to do it around 1971 while filming The unwanted oneswho would no longer film romantic scenes with actresses other than his wife Joanne Woodward. Clooney followed suit, announcing last March on CBS that he refused to continue making romantic films because he refused to compete with the 25-year-old protagonists. But now it goes one step further and He strongly rejects kisses on screen, regardless of the genre of the film.. In his case, he basically has no opportunity to do this with his wife Amal Clooney, who, unlike Woodward, does not devote herself to acting but works as a renowned lawyer. “When I turned 60, I talked to my wife” Clooney tells the British media about the conversation that led him to this career decision. “I told him, ‘Look, I can still play basketball with the boys.’ I play with 25 year old guys. I’m still holding on, I’m in shape. But in 25 years I will be 85. It doesn’t matter how many granola bars you eat, it’s a real number.”
In September 2022, the winner of two Oscars was awarded – in 2006 for Syria and in 2013 by Argotwo films in which he doesn’t kiss women – he confessed that to the New York Times A director criticized the way he kissed on screen. It was during the promotion of Passage to paradisewhere he was accompanied by his girlfriend Julia Roberts. “I remember early in my career I had to do a kissing scene with a girl and the director said to me, ‘Not like that’. And I thought, ‘Man, that’s my move! That’s how I do it in real life!'” he said. In the same interview, he also revealed that he and Roberts had to repeat their kissing scene countless times in the 2022 film. “I said to my wife (Amal), ‘It took me 80 takes,’ and she told me, ‘What the fuck?'” the interpreter explained. “It took 79 takes of us laughing and then one take of us kissing,” Roberts said. “Well, we had to do it right,” Clooney concluded.
The actor of Uninterrupted love – a 2009 film in which he kisses Vera Farmiga – has two professional projects on the near horizon. One of them is his participation in the film adaptation of the successful French series Dix pour centswhich will premiere on Netflix in 2026. The other is the expected Ocean is 14still in development, but with his confirmation as part of the cast alongside Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and his romantic interest in this franchise that began in 2001, Julia Roberts (with whom a kiss now seems unlikely to be repeated).
Otherwise, Clooney seems increasingly less interested in sacrificing family time for work. He and Amal decided to leave Los Angeles after the birth of their now eight-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander. Since 2021, the family has been living on a luxurious “farm,” as he calls it, in Brignoles in the south of France. In October, she said in an interview with Esquire that she was worried about raising her children “in Hollywood culture” and that they would be happy in the country, away from the media presence. “For them (their children), it’s like… They’re not on their iPads, you know? They’re having dinner with the adults and they have to clear their plates. They have a much better life,” he celebrated.
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