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<\/div>\nGet the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email<\/h3>\nGet the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter <\/h3>\nGet the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI<\/span>n the summer of 2024, in the interests of research, Kevin Bacon took on his most demanding and dangerous role to date<\/a>. He put on a fake nose, inserted a set of false teeth and play-acted the part of an ordinary man. For a few terrifying hours at a Los Angeles shopping mall, the Mystic River<\/a> star went completely Method, mixing with the shoppers outside Foot Locker and experiencing the full feral horror of everyday life. \u201cPeople were kind of pushing past me, not being nice,\u201d he would later tell a reporter. \u201cI had to wait in line to, I don\u2019t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever.\u201d The role understandably took an immediate toll on his system. \u201cI was like, this sucks,\u201d he recalled thinking. \u201cI want to go back to being famous.\u201d<\/p>\nI was reminded of Bacon\u2019s gruelling social experiment while watching the new Noah Baumbach film<\/a>, Jay Kelly, in which George Clooney plays an A-list Hollywood actor on his way to collect a lifetime achievement in Tuscany. Naturally, Jay Kelly never has to wait in line for coffee. At one stage he even gets one he hasn\u2019t asked for slid into his hand by a passing poolside butler. He is wealthy and handsome and pampered and indulged. Which is to say that he\u2019s basically George Clooney<\/a> and that the Oscar-winning actor is essentially playing himself. This means no fake nose or false teeth to deploy as a disguise. It means no place to run and nowhere to hide. \u201cHave you ever tried playing yourself?\u201d Clooney \u2013 perhaps rhetorically \u2013 asked a Vanity Fair journalist last month. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to do.\u201d<\/p>\nIf there is a message to draw from these two tales of actorly angst, it\u2019s that fame is a bubble and that celebrities bear no more than a passing resemblance to real people. And although Clooney and Bacon are both smart men and fine actors, their gallant efforts to connect with the normies \u2013 either by coyly inviting us into their world or attempting to travel incognito through ours \u2013 were always destined to run aground. Or to put it another way, I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s anything more guaranteed to highlight the gulf between them and us than the sight of a tanned George Clooney looking sad beside his swimming pool, unless it\u2019s the dawning realisation that the next man in line is that bloke out of Footloose wearing a set of outsized Ken Dodd teeth.<\/p>\n
A few years ago Tom Hanks wrote a novel called The Making of Another Major Motion Picture. This purported to lift the lid on the nuts and bolts of film production, to usher the reader behind the velvet rope and reveal how Hollywood artists really live and work. To demonstrate this, the story featured a brilliant, godlike director who commands a crack team of hard-working, sometimes troubled but super-talented actors. The only baddies I recall were the upstarts and losers. The cast and crew-members who don\u2019t quite know their place. The sad-sack creepy fans who want to sneak onto the set. It was in short (very short: Hanks\u2019s tale actually lasts 450 pages) a preening, elitist self-own of a book. It turned out to be one-part Forrest Gump and two-parts Ayn Rand.<\/p>\n
Jay Kelly is nothing like as bad as The Making of Another Major Motion Picture. It is, though, prone to the same soft-headed complacency and the same misjudged levels of sympathy for the plight of the super-rich. Its hero (or is it Clooney?) comes across as a tragicomic Peter Pan and is treated with a kind of fond exasperation by his doting handlers. He ambles about in honeyed light, flashing his mournful movie star smile and saying things like \u201cI think I\u2019m always alone\u201d and \u201cmy life doesn\u2019t feel real\u201d and \u201cthis feels like a movie where I\u2019m playing myself\u201d, which of course it is. But on the evidence of Jay Kelly, I prefer Clooney when he\u2019s playing other people. Playing himself, supposedly the toughest challenge of them all, is not the ideal look for him. Bizarrely, it leaves this serenely confident performer looking suddenly unconvincing and unrelatable.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a neat piece of brand management, impersonating yourself on the screen, although it tends to work best when it\u2019s played more for jokes than for pathos. Knowing self-satire is what drove the likes of TV\u2019s Extras, The Larry Sanders Show and The Trip. It\u2019s what links Bill Murray\u2019s rueful cameo in Zombieland (2009) with Keanu Reeves\u2019s vainglorious posing in Always Be My Maybe (2019) and Nicolas Cage\u2019s turn as a demented cash-strapped actor in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022). Arguably the smart actors are the ones who best play to our prejudice. They know the general public, by and large, regard celebrities as a band of grotesque and comical monsters. We\u2019re happy to ogle their infinity pools and observe their first-world problems. But we\u2019d much rather sit back and laugh at their appallingly brattish behaviour.<\/p>\n
Baumbach\u2019s film deserves some credit for taking the more nuanced and challenging route, one that reaches for Fellini levels of playful self-scrutiny as it parks a misty-eyed Clooney in front of his own tribute showreel and reminds us that it\u2019s lonely at the top and that money can\u2019t buy happiness. Both of which may well be true. It\u2019s just a shame that the comedy feels so cosy and condescending, so fatally excluding of its audience.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\nStranger than fiction: Laura Dern, George Clooney and Adam Sandler in Noah Baumbach\u2019s \u2018Jay Kelly\u2019 (Netflix)<\/span><\/div>\n\u201cWith the rich and mighty, always a little patience,\u201d says Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940). That counts as good, sound advice, except that patience has its limits. Midway through Clooney\u2019s rueful, reflective voyage around himself, Jay Kelly has comprehensively and flagrantly worn out its welcome. The tale stirs the blood just as effectively as The Battle of Algiers (1966), to the point where a full-blown revolution feels like the only sensible course of action. Break the gilded cage and flip the pyramid on its head. Have the A-listers line up outside Starbucks forever, and let the normies go free and make the movies instead.<\/p>\n
\u2018Jay Kelly\u2019 is in selected cinemas from 14 November, and streams on Netflix from 5 December<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI<\/span>n the summer of 2024, in the interests of research, Kevin Bacon took on his most demanding and dangerous role to date<\/a>. He put on a fake nose, inserted a set of false teeth and play-acted the part of an ordinary man. For a few terrifying hours at a Los Angeles shopping mall, the Mystic River<\/a> star went completely Method, mixing with the shoppers outside Foot Locker and experiencing the full feral horror of everyday life. \u201cPeople were kind of pushing past me, not being nice,\u201d he would later tell a reporter. \u201cI had to wait in line to, I don\u2019t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever.\u201d The role understandably took an immediate toll on his system. \u201cI was like, this sucks,\u201d he recalled thinking. \u201cI want to go back to being famous.\u201d<\/p>\nI was reminded of Bacon\u2019s gruelling social experiment while watching the new Noah Baumbach film<\/a>, Jay Kelly, in which George Clooney plays an A-list Hollywood actor on his way to collect a lifetime achievement in Tuscany. Naturally, Jay Kelly never has to wait in line for coffee. At one stage he even gets one he hasn\u2019t asked for slid into his hand by a passing poolside butler. He is wealthy and handsome and pampered and indulged. Which is to say that he\u2019s basically George Clooney<\/a> and that the Oscar-winning actor is essentially playing himself. This means no fake nose or false teeth to deploy as a disguise. It means no place to run and nowhere to hide. \u201cHave you ever tried playing yourself?\u201d Clooney \u2013 perhaps rhetorically \u2013 asked a Vanity Fair journalist last month. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to do.\u201d<\/p>\nIf there is a message to draw from these two tales of actorly angst, it\u2019s that fame is a bubble and that celebrities bear no more than a passing resemblance to real people. And although Clooney and Bacon are both smart men and fine actors, their gallant efforts to connect with the normies \u2013 either by coyly inviting us into their world or attempting to travel incognito through ours \u2013 were always destined to run aground. Or to put it another way, I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s anything more guaranteed to highlight the gulf between them and us than the sight of a tanned George Clooney looking sad beside his swimming pool, unless it\u2019s the dawning realisation that the next man in line is that bloke out of Footloose wearing a set of outsized Ken Dodd teeth.<\/p>\n
A few years ago Tom Hanks wrote a novel called The Making of Another Major Motion Picture. This purported to lift the lid on the nuts and bolts of film production, to usher the reader behind the velvet rope and reveal how Hollywood artists really live and work. To demonstrate this, the story featured a brilliant, godlike director who commands a crack team of hard-working, sometimes troubled but super-talented actors. The only baddies I recall were the upstarts and losers. The cast and crew-members who don\u2019t quite know their place. The sad-sack creepy fans who want to sneak onto the set. It was in short (very short: Hanks\u2019s tale actually lasts 450 pages) a preening, elitist self-own of a book. It turned out to be one-part Forrest Gump and two-parts Ayn Rand.<\/p>\n
Jay Kelly is nothing like as bad as The Making of Another Major Motion Picture. It is, though, prone to the same soft-headed complacency and the same misjudged levels of sympathy for the plight of the super-rich. Its hero (or is it Clooney?) comes across as a tragicomic Peter Pan and is treated with a kind of fond exasperation by his doting handlers. He ambles about in honeyed light, flashing his mournful movie star smile and saying things like \u201cI think I\u2019m always alone\u201d and \u201cmy life doesn\u2019t feel real\u201d and \u201cthis feels like a movie where I\u2019m playing myself\u201d, which of course it is. But on the evidence of Jay Kelly, I prefer Clooney when he\u2019s playing other people. Playing himself, supposedly the toughest challenge of them all, is not the ideal look for him. Bizarrely, it leaves this serenely confident performer looking suddenly unconvincing and unrelatable.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a neat piece of brand management, impersonating yourself on the screen, although it tends to work best when it\u2019s played more for jokes than for pathos. Knowing self-satire is what drove the likes of TV\u2019s Extras, The Larry Sanders Show and The Trip. It\u2019s what links Bill Murray\u2019s rueful cameo in Zombieland (2009) with Keanu Reeves\u2019s vainglorious posing in Always Be My Maybe (2019) and Nicolas Cage\u2019s turn as a demented cash-strapped actor in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022). Arguably the smart actors are the ones who best play to our prejudice. They know the general public, by and large, regard celebrities as a band of grotesque and comical monsters. We\u2019re happy to ogle their infinity pools and observe their first-world problems. But we\u2019d much rather sit back and laugh at their appallingly brattish behaviour.<\/p>\n
Baumbach\u2019s film deserves some credit for taking the more nuanced and challenging route, one that reaches for Fellini levels of playful self-scrutiny as it parks a misty-eyed Clooney in front of his own tribute showreel and reminds us that it\u2019s lonely at the top and that money can\u2019t buy happiness. Both of which may well be true. It\u2019s just a shame that the comedy feels so cosy and condescending, so fatally excluding of its audience.<\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\nStranger than fiction: Laura Dern, George Clooney and Adam Sandler in Noah Baumbach\u2019s \u2018Jay Kelly\u2019 (Netflix)<\/span><\/div>\n\u201cWith the rich and mighty, always a little patience,\u201d says Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940). That counts as good, sound advice, except that patience has its limits. Midway through Clooney\u2019s rueful, reflective voyage around himself, Jay Kelly has comprehensively and flagrantly worn out its welcome. The tale stirs the blood just as effectively as The Battle of Algiers (1966), to the point where a full-blown revolution feels like the only sensible course of action. Break the gilded cage and flip the pyramid on its head. Have the A-listers line up outside Starbucks forever, and let the normies go free and make the movies instead.<\/p>\n
\u2018Jay Kelly\u2019 is in selected cinemas from 14 November, and streams on Netflix from 5 December<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nI<\/span>n the summer of 2024, in the interests of research, Kevin Bacon took on his most demanding and dangerous role to date<\/a>. He put on a fake nose, inserted a set of false teeth and play-acted the part of an ordinary man. For a few terrifying hours at a Los Angeles shopping mall, the Mystic River<\/a> star went completely Method, mixing with the shoppers outside Foot Locker and experiencing the full feral horror of everyday life. \u201cPeople were kind of pushing past me, not being nice,\u201d he would later tell a reporter. \u201cI had to wait in line to, I don\u2019t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever.\u201d The role understandably took an immediate toll on his system. \u201cI was like, this sucks,\u201d he recalled thinking. \u201cI want to go back to being famous.\u201d<\/p>\n I was reminded of Bacon\u2019s gruelling social experiment while watching the new Noah Baumbach film<\/a>, Jay Kelly, in which George Clooney plays an A-list Hollywood actor on his way to collect a lifetime achievement in Tuscany. Naturally, Jay Kelly never has to wait in line for coffee. At one stage he even gets one he hasn\u2019t asked for slid into his hand by a passing poolside butler. He is wealthy and handsome and pampered and indulged. Which is to say that he\u2019s basically George Clooney<\/a> and that the Oscar-winning actor is essentially playing himself. This means no fake nose or false teeth to deploy as a disguise. It means no place to run and nowhere to hide. \u201cHave you ever tried playing yourself?\u201d Clooney \u2013 perhaps rhetorically \u2013 asked a Vanity Fair journalist last month. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to do.\u201d<\/p>\n If there is a message to draw from these two tales of actorly angst, it\u2019s that fame is a bubble and that celebrities bear no more than a passing resemblance to real people. And although Clooney and Bacon are both smart men and fine actors, their gallant efforts to connect with the normies \u2013 either by coyly inviting us into their world or attempting to travel incognito through ours \u2013 were always destined to run aground. Or to put it another way, I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s anything more guaranteed to highlight the gulf between them and us than the sight of a tanned George Clooney looking sad beside his swimming pool, unless it\u2019s the dawning realisation that the next man in line is that bloke out of Footloose wearing a set of outsized Ken Dodd teeth.<\/p>\n A few years ago Tom Hanks wrote a novel called The Making of Another Major Motion Picture. This purported to lift the lid on the nuts and bolts of film production, to usher the reader behind the velvet rope and reveal how Hollywood artists really live and work. To demonstrate this, the story featured a brilliant, godlike director who commands a crack team of hard-working, sometimes troubled but super-talented actors. The only baddies I recall were the upstarts and losers. The cast and crew-members who don\u2019t quite know their place. The sad-sack creepy fans who want to sneak onto the set. It was in short (very short: Hanks\u2019s tale actually lasts 450 pages) a preening, elitist self-own of a book. It turned out to be one-part Forrest Gump and two-parts Ayn Rand.<\/p>\n Jay Kelly is nothing like as bad as The Making of Another Major Motion Picture. It is, though, prone to the same soft-headed complacency and the same misjudged levels of sympathy for the plight of the super-rich. Its hero (or is it Clooney?) comes across as a tragicomic Peter Pan and is treated with a kind of fond exasperation by his doting handlers. He ambles about in honeyed light, flashing his mournful movie star smile and saying things like \u201cI think I\u2019m always alone\u201d and \u201cmy life doesn\u2019t feel real\u201d and \u201cthis feels like a movie where I\u2019m playing myself\u201d, which of course it is. But on the evidence of Jay Kelly, I prefer Clooney when he\u2019s playing other people. Playing himself, supposedly the toughest challenge of them all, is not the ideal look for him. Bizarrely, it leaves this serenely confident performer looking suddenly unconvincing and unrelatable.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a neat piece of brand management, impersonating yourself on the screen, although it tends to work best when it\u2019s played more for jokes than for pathos. Knowing self-satire is what drove the likes of TV\u2019s Extras, The Larry Sanders Show and The Trip. It\u2019s what links Bill Murray\u2019s rueful cameo in Zombieland (2009) with Keanu Reeves\u2019s vainglorious posing in Always Be My Maybe (2019) and Nicolas Cage\u2019s turn as a demented cash-strapped actor in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022). Arguably the smart actors are the ones who best play to our prejudice. They know the general public, by and large, regard celebrities as a band of grotesque and comical monsters. We\u2019re happy to ogle their infinity pools and observe their first-world problems. But we\u2019d much rather sit back and laugh at their appallingly brattish behaviour.<\/p>\n Baumbach\u2019s film deserves some credit for taking the more nuanced and challenging route, one that reaches for Fellini levels of playful self-scrutiny as it parks a misty-eyed Clooney in front of his own tribute showreel and reminds us that it\u2019s lonely at the top and that money can\u2019t buy happiness. Both of which may well be true. It\u2019s just a shame that the comedy feels so cosy and condescending, so fatally excluding of its audience.<\/p>\n Stranger than fiction: Laura Dern, George Clooney and Adam Sandler in Noah Baumbach\u2019s \u2018Jay Kelly\u2019 (Netflix)<\/span><\/div>\n \u201cWith the rich and mighty, always a little patience,\u201d says Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story (1940). That counts as good, sound advice, except that patience has its limits. Midway through Clooney\u2019s rueful, reflective voyage around himself, Jay Kelly has comprehensively and flagrantly worn out its welcome. The tale stirs the blood just as effectively as The Battle of Algiers (1966), to the point where a full-blown revolution feels like the only sensible course of action. Break the gilded cage and flip the pyramid on its head. Have the A-listers line up outside Starbucks forever, and let the normies go free and make the movies instead.<\/p>\n \u2018Jay Kelly\u2019 is in selected cinemas from 14 November, and streams on Netflix from 5 December<\/p>\n<\/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.independent.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter In the summer of 2024, in the interests of research, Kevin Bacon took on his most demanding and dangerous role to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1948653,"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-2145849","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\/08\/Strictly-2025-BBC-loses-professional-competitor-for-new-series.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145849","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=2145849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145850,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145849\/revisions\/2145850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n