George Clooney Says He’s No Longer ‘Kissing Girls’ in Movies: ‘When I Turned 60 I Had a Conversation With My Wife’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/george-clooney-no-longer-kissing-girls-in-movies-1236608511/

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  1. > During a recent interview with the Daily Mail, Clooney said that after having a discussion with his wife, Amal Clooney, about his age, he will no longer be “kissing girls” in movies.

    > “I’ve been trying to go the route Paul Newman did — ‘Okay, well, I’m not kissing a girl anymore,’” Clooney said.

    > He added, “When I turned 60, I had a conversation with my wife. I said, ‘Look, I can still play basketball with the boys. I play with 25-year-old guys. I can still hang, I’m in shape. But in 25 years, I’m 85 years old. It doesn’t matter how many granola bars you eat, that’s a real number.’”

  2. This is ridiculous. Older people kiss. We just don’t want to see the old Hollywood Trope of elderly men with young women. Kiss within your age range.

  3. Is Julia Roberts off the table?

    ^(It’s a joke, they’re in practically everything together).

  4. Who’d he talk to to say he’s no longer appearing in good movies?

  10. Uh oh. Be careful, Cloon! This is how Neal McDonough got himself ejected from Hollywood!

  11. I think this is great and more actors should enforce personal boundaries in their work. I see this going hand-in-hand with having intimacy coordinators on set so there can be someone to make sure these boundaries are respected. There is always a way to work around things, movies aren’t real. Although it sounds more like what Clooney is saying is that he doesn’t want to play romantic leads any more, but I also think the conversation about actors aging and how they portray people their age onscreen is a good one. Overall, nice to see a star at his level talking about these things.

  13. “Too many people don’t want to watch me kiss people anymore. Let me pretend it’s my decision and gaslight you about it.”

  14. People say that Meyers, Fallon, Colbert and Kimmel are dumbfucks that need pre interviews because they think they can’t fill 7-10 minutes by themselves.

    If that’s the case, Clooney’s people demanded to talk about Trump when he did Kimmel last year?

  16. I mean when they cast you with women half your age… it does start to look a little crazy.

  17. Well establish Hollywood film actors are able to set boundaries. New people in the industry can’t!

  19. What an ASSH***. Please. How out of touch can even this guy get. I mean, dude it’s time to let go the EGO

  20. I really want a movie where George Clooney and Craig Bierko are paired up.

  21. Ugh, he’s so pretentious and full of himself. We all know your wife isn’t worried about you kissing girls. You don’t swing that way.

  22. I liked Norm McDonald’s take on age, talking about Caitlyn Jenner, “now at some point you got to realize you’re just some old thing nobody wants to fuck”.

  27. Well this kind of spoils his next movie doesn’t it?

  29. He said it to his beard – not wife – which is totally ok – just own it. $ can’t be worth the game

  31. Finally, my chance to be George Clooney’s kissies stand-in.

  32. Tomorrowland check + Casamigos money mean Clooney can do whatever he wants.

  33. who cares? all this means to me is that your wife can’t trust you to not catch feelings so you have to “proudly” claim this from the mountaintops when no one cares

  35. George Clooney has halitosis, you heard it here first.

  37. why the fuck do entertainment news sources have such a boner for this guy right now? every other day there’s some entertainment article with a quote from this guy about politics or some other shit like he’s the grand poobah of hollywood or something.

    nothing against clooney; he’s a legend. but this guy farts now and it makes headlines.

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