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\n\t\t\t\t\tThe comedy-drama stars Clooney as aging global superstar Jay Kelly and combines humor with contemplation on the cost of celebrity and fame\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
LONDON, United Kingdom \u2013 Two-time Oscar winner George Clooney drew from his own life to play a Hollywood legend in his new movie Jay Kelly.<\/p>\n
The comedy-drama stars Clooney as aging global superstar Jay Kelly and combines humor with contemplation on the cost of celebrity and fame.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are elements certainly about the experience that I\u2019ve had, but not so many regrets, which I think is \u2018thank God\u2019,\u201d Clooney, 64, said while attending the movie\u2019s London Film Festival premiere on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s personal, but I\u2019m not as unhappy as that guy. I have a family that I love and kids who I think still love me. They\u2019re eight, there\u2019s time to screw it up. And I have friends that I don\u2019t pay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Directed by Noah Baumbach, who co-wrote the screenplay with actress Emily Mortimer, Jay Kelly sees the titular character reflect on his past and present as he travels to Europe with his large entourage.<\/p>\n
The group, including his publicist Liz, played by Laura Dern, and hair and makeup artist Candy (Mortimer), slowly disintegrates along the journey. But Kelly\u2019s loyal manager Ron, portrayed by Adam Sandler, stays by his side and takes stock of his own life.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see somebody who, when they make a movie, it takes a lot of time away from your family. I\u2019ve always tried to bring family around as much as possible,\u201d said Sandler. \u201cAnd like anyone who works for a living, you\u2019re away from some stuff you wish you weren\u2019t missing. It\u2019s dealing with that pain and finding out the best balance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baumbach, whose previous films include Marriage Story and White Noise and who co-wrote the hit movie Barbie with his wife Greta Gerwig, said he set out to make a movie about an actor in crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was a way to tell a story about all of us in some way,\u201d said Baumbach. \u201cAn actor was a kind of stand-in for all of us who are trying to figure out the gap between how we present ourselves to the world and who we may actually be, and as we get older, also how we contend with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jay Kelly, which features a starry supporting cast including Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Louis Partridge, Isla Fisher, Jim Broadbent and Gerwig, receives a limited theatrical release in November and starts streaming on Netflix on December 5. \u2013 Rappler.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rappler.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. The comedy-drama stars Clooney as aging global superstar Jay Kelly and combines humor with contemplation on the cost of celebrity and fame LONDON, United Kingdom \u2013 Two-time Oscar winner George Clooney drew from his own life to play […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2083142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/George-Clooney-pulls-from-personal-experience-to-play-film-star.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083143,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083141\/revisions\/2083143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2083142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}