George Clooney Admits He Was ‘a Little Disturbed’ When Confronted with Footage from His Old Movies (Exclusive)

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• George Clooney plays a movie star in new movie jay kelly

• While filming its final scene, Clooney was shown footage from his own previous projects, which he says he was not told about in advance.

• “I was really surprised by it — and a little bit upset, too,” the actor-filmmaker quipped to People.

George Clooney enjoyed a moment of nostalgia while watching his new movie.

In jay kelly (in theaters and on Netflix Dec. 5), the Oscar winner, 64, plays a famous movie star who is no different from himself. Speaking to People at the premiere of Noah Baumbach’s film in Los Angeles on November 11, it’s clear that some of the parallels with his real life were less than intuitive.

final scene of jay kelly – Light spoilers follow – Clooney’s Jay and his manager (played by Adam Sandler) are shown taking a highlight reel of Jay’s previous cinema work to a lifetime achievement ceremony. Baumbach used actual footage from several of the actor’s previous screen projects, with Clooney saying he “had no idea they were going to do that.”

“When they first shot it, it was the first time they showed it to me,” Clooney explains. “This is the first take of the film.”

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When he was seen holding Sandler’s hand, Clooney confirmed it was barely acting. “I was really surprised by it – and a little bit upset,” he admits.

“It’s tough,” he quips. “You have to really steel yourself to look 40 years old on screen. It’s not so easy with a bad mullet. It’s not very good.”

This was when he booked his breakout role in the 1980s sitcom facts of life As Clooney recently showed off, she wore a thick, dark mullet Jimmy Kimmel Live!“Look at that hair! That’s a mullet, dude,” he said of a photo of himself from that era,

jay kelly, Starring Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Baumbach’s co-writer Emily Mortimer, and others, is in theaters now and on Netflix December 5.

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