George Clooney was shocked to see his 1980s mullet make a surprise cameo appearance in his new movie Jay Kelly.
George Clooney’s mullet made a surprise comeback in Jay Kelly
The former E.R. star – who plays an ageing Hollywood actor in the new Netflix film – has revealed director Noah Baumbach didn’t tell him he would be using real clips from Clooney’s career in a montage featured on screen when the title character is given a life achievement award.
Clooney addressed the mullet during Entertainment Weekly‘s Around the Table with his Jay Kelly co-star Adam Sandler, saying: “Oh, it was a surprise all right. I was surprised …
“We [Sandler and I] held hands. No, I didn’t know he was going to use sort of clips from my own actual career, which was a surprise.
“And you get to look at a lot of bad haircuts over the … mullets.”
He then turned to Sandler and said: “Don’t you laugh,. You had a mullet.”
The Happy Gilmour star joked back: “My mullet was fluffy. Mine wasn’t as good as yours. Yours laid there nicely.”
Clooney then laughed: “I had a good mullet … Full party in the back. Who would put it up on a screen that people could see now with a beautiful score?”
The Oscar-winner previously addressed his 1980s hair issues during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in November after the host showed him pictures of his infamous hair ‘do.
Clooney said: “That’s the early stages, later, it got longer in the back and shorter at the sides, as you do.”
When asked who was responsible for the mullet, Clooney replied: “I don’t know! It wasn’t my fault. My parents weren’t taking me to the barber [in the ‘80s].”
Clooney rocked the style for many years from the late 1980s until the early 1990s but chopped it all off after landing his break-out role on medical drama E.R.
He also previously discussed the hair style in a joint interview with Brad Pitt for GQ in 2014 with the pair comparing their matching mullets.
Clooney told the publication: “It’s fun to look around – I look at him [Pitt], and I also see the kid with really s***** hair on a bad sitcom that both of us were [wearing] …”
Pitt added: “I would say one of the greatest mullets that ever existed.”
Clooney insisted his mullet was better adding: “Yeah, I might say mine. But again, that’s part of a really good shared experience …”
