The veteran reflects on ageing, career choices and family priorities as fresh comments raise questions about what comes next.
Actor George Clooney opens up about retirement and sparks buzz about his future
George Clooney has been famous long enough to know how the anticipation machine works. Even a hint about slowing down can ignite speculation, and the 64-year-old has done just that in a new conversation with USA Today, reflecting on a career that took decades to take off and what it might mean to eventually step aside.
Clooney talks openly. He describes a young version of himself stumbling through auditions, once leaving Francis Ford Coppola thinking he was drunk, and spending years collecting rejections before the medical series ER finally changed everything at 33. That long apprenticeship shapes how he views ageing in Hollywood today.
Clooney weighs future roles
Portraying a fading legend in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly has inevitably raised questions about his own trajectory. He admits he still chases difficult projects, including a recent Broadway run that frightened him for all the right reasons, and a new film with Annette Bening that he hopes he’s ready for. The draw, he says, is fear itself.
Clooney: family, fulfilment and retirement
Clooney insists he doesn’t need to keep working, but staying creative feels essential. He jokes that the “wheels are already falling off,” yet he can imagine taking character parts well into old age. At the same time, a conversation with his wife, Amal, after he turned 60 reframed his priorities. He wants more time with their children, more space to live beyond film sets.
For now, he isn’t retiring. But acknowledging the countdown has set off fresh buzz about when Hollywood’s quintessential leading man might finally ride into the sunset.
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