George Clooney Reveals He Will No Longer Be 'Kissing Girls' in Movies, So That Era Is Officially Over

George Clooney’s implicit it. Over what, you mightiness beryllium asking? Well, he’s done "kissing girls" and making romance films — which, erstwhile you deliberation astir being a go-to romanticist pb made him the heartthrob helium is successful the zeitgeist, is genuinely the extremity of an era.

“I’ve been trying to spell the way Paul Newman did — ‘Okay, well, I’m not kissing a miss anymore,’” Clooney precocious revealed successful an interrogation with the Daily Mail, noting that it was a spot of a treatment successful his household earlier helium made the authoritative call.

He continued: “When I turned 60, I had a speech with my wife. I said, ‘Look, I tin inactive play hoops with the boys. I play with 25-year-old guys. I tin inactive hang, I’m successful shape. But successful 25 years, I’m 85 years old. It doesn’t substance however galore granola bars you eat, that’s a existent number.'”

George Clooney is done kissing girls successful movies. Photo by Alberto Rodriguez/Variety via Getty Images.

Clooney is 1 of Hollywood’s astir storied actors, with a resume brimming with beloved rom-coms similar Up successful the Air alongside Vera Farmiga, Ticket to Paradise alongside Julia Roberts, and One Fine Day alongside Michelle Pfeiffer. He’s besides known for his beardown starring antheral qualities, which helium exemplified successful films similar Ocean’s Eleven, Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and Gravity, among galore others.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Clooney has spoken connected the decision. “Look, I’m 63 years old. I’m not trying to vie with 25-year-old starring men,” helium told 60 Minutes backmost successful March. “That’s not my job. I’m not doing romanticist films anymore.”

It’s not an casual job, being a starring man, truthful it seems fitting that Clooney wants to bent up that hat. In fact, helium antecedently spoke astir getting critiqued connected the acceptable of a romanticist movie years ago. “I retrieve aboriginal connected successful my career, I had to bash a kissing country with this miss and the manager goes, ‘Not similar that,’” helium told the New York Times successful 2022. “And I was like, ‘Dude, that’s my move! That’s what I bash successful existent life!’”

Clooney’s astir caller task was Netflix’s caller movie Jay Kelly, wherever he, successful fact, kept his connection astir not kissing immoderate girls. What's next? In October, Clooney insisted Ocean’s 14, the highly anticipated sequel movie to the iconic remake caper, had been greenlit and would astir apt commencement filming adjacent twelvemonth — with the large names from the 2001 archetypal acceptable to reprise their roles.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.