{"id":165775,"date":"2025-12-03T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165775\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:16:12","slug":"george-clooney-movies-to-watch-after-jay-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165775\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney Movies to Watch After Jay Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Clooney plays a successful, charming, and beloved leading man in director Noah Baumbach<\/a>\u2019s Jay Kelly<\/a>. You\u2019d be hard-pressed to find someone more suited to the role than Clooney, who\u2019s been winning over audiences since he broke out in the \u201990s playing Dr. Doug Ross on ER.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, as Clooney told Tudum<\/a>, he feels fortunate that fame didn\u2019t find him until later in life, unlike the fictional Jay Kelly<\/a> \u2014 and his aunt, the singer and actor Rosemary Clooney. \u201cI\u2019ve met some people who got famous really early in life,\u201d Clooney said. \u201cMy aunt was one of them, actually. She was a famous singer. She acted in a couple of movies, like White Christmas. Because she was so famous at 19 years old, she hadn\u2019t really been in the world long enough, and so, she didn\u2019t handle fame very well, particularly when it started going away. I\u2019ve always felt, again, very lucky that it took such a long time for me, but also it gave me a chance to learn how not to be Jay Kelly in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clooney was 33 when ER premiered in 1994, and he quickly went on to leading roles in From Dusk Till Dawn, Out of Sight, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Kentucky-born actor, director, and producer has since won numerous awards, including two Oscars and four Golden Globes, and received nominations for three Emmys and a Tony. He led an ensemble cast of hypercapable thieves in Steven Soderbergh<\/a>\u2019s Ocean\u2019s trilogy, voiced the eponymous stop-motion character in Wes Anderson<\/a>\u2019s Fantastic Mr. Fox, and played an astronaut stranded in space in Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n<\/a>\u2019s Gravity. He has also sat in the director\u2019s chair nine times, helming movies like Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Ides of March, The Monuments Men, and The Midnight Sky (more on that below).\u00a0<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll be in front of the camera again in Jay Kelly \u2014 premiering on Netflix Dec. 5 \u2014 which tells the story of a marquee actor who has a late-in-life epiphany that he\u2019s missed out on real, meaningful experiences outside his idyllic Hollywood bubble. Before Clooney goes on his next adventure, watch these performances below.<\/p>\n

The Midnight Sky\"\"<\/p>\n

Clooney directed and starred in this sci-fi movie based on Lily Brooks-Dalton\u2019s 2016 novel Good Morning, Midnight. In it, he plays an aging scientist, Augustine Lofthouse, who has to travel across the Arctic Circle to stop a manned spaceship from returning to Earth after an apocalyptic event wiped out most of the population. His failure could mean death for the crew, played by Felicity Jones<\/a> (Train Dreams<\/a>), David Oyelowo (The After<\/a>), and Kyle Chandler (Bloodline<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Money Monster\"\"<\/p>\n

Julia Roberts (Leave the World Behind<\/a>) and Clooney lead this crime thriller directed by Jodie Foster (NYAD<\/a>). Ostentatious TV personality and financial expert Lee Gates (Clooney) gets taken hostage by a furious fan, Kyle (Jack O\u2019Connell<\/a>), who took Gates\u2019s investment advice and lost his life savings after a financial crash. Gates\u2019s producer, Patty (Roberts), works with the authorities to talk Kyle down, save Gates, and seek out the corrupt CEO who\u2019s really responsible. Dominic West (The Crown<\/a>), Caitr\u00edona Balfe (Outlander<\/a>), and Giancarlo Esposito (The Residence<\/a>) co-star.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A Very Murray Christmas\"\"<\/p>\n

Bill Murray (Groundhog Day<\/a>) plays an exaggerated, fictionalized version of himself in this 2015 Christmas musical comedy directed by Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation). It\u2019s Christmas Eve, and a nasty storm has caused most of the guests Murray booked for his elaborate Christmas special to cancel at the last minute. Lo and behold, he stumbles on a host of Hollywood stars who join him for a few songs, a couple of drinks, and some good laughs. A tuxedo-clad Clooney \u2014 one of the few guests playing himself \u2014 enters the fray alongside Miley Cyrus (Black Mirror<\/a>) and sings a comical rendition of Albert King\u2019s \u201cSanta Claus Wants Some Lovin\u2019 \u201d with Murray. Michael Cera (Arrested Development<\/a>), Chris Rock (The Week Of<\/a>), Amy Poehler<\/a> (Parks and Recreation), Maya Rudolph (Wine Country<\/a>), and more make guest appearances.<\/p>\n

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