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George Clooney is hitting back at critics who question his range as an actor.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Vanity Fair<\/a> for a preview piece on Noah Baumbach\u2019s Jay Kelly, the two-time Oscar winner didn\u2019t mince words when addressing criticism that his characters are tantamount to playing versions of himself onscreen.<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/p>\n \u201cDo people say that I only play myself? I don\u2019t give a sh\u2013,\u201d the Good Night, and Good Luck actor said. \u201cThere aren\u2019t that many guys in my age group that are allowed to do both broad comedies like O Brother [Where Art Though?] and then do Michael Clayton or Syriana [for which he won the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award]. So if that means I\u2019m playing myself all the time, I don\u2019t give a sh\u2013.\u201d<\/p>\n Echoing a quote from the upcoming Jay Kelly \u2014 where Clooney portrays a 60-something movie star reflecting on his personal and professional life \u2014 he added, \u201cHave you ever tried playing yourself? It\u2019s hard to do.\u201d<\/p>\n The Wolfs star concluded, \u201cI\u2019ve been the beneficiary of having my career not be massively successful in lots of different directions. I didn\u2019t really get successful, in the kind of success that can be blinding, until I was 33 years old [when ER began]. I\u2019d been working for 12 years at that point. I had a real understanding of how fleeting all of it is and how little it has to do with you, quite honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n Jay Kelly, which will have its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival later this month, is bowing in theaters Nov. 14, with a streaming debut on Netflix Dec. 5<\/a>. Co-written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, the dramedy also stars Laura Dern, Adam Sandler, Isla Fisher, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Riley Keough, Patrick Wilson, Nic\u00f4le Lecky, Thaddea Graham, Jim Broadbent, Eve Hewson, Alba Rohrwacher, Lenny Henry, Josh Hamilton and Ruby Stokes.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Clooney is hitting back at critics who question his range as an actor. Speaking to Vanity Fair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,38892,134,38889,38890,344,38320,38891],"class_list":{"0":"post-44545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-best-supporting-actor","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-george-clooney","13":"tag-jay-kelly","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-noah-baumbach","16":"tag-vanity-fair"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}