{"id":237269,"date":"2026-04-28T19:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/hollywood-star-george-clooney-doesnt-watch-his-own-movies-but-why\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:25:08","slug":"hollywood-star-george-clooney-doesnt-watch-his-own-movies-but-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/hollywood-star-george-clooney-doesnt-watch-his-own-movies-but-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood star George Clooney doesn&#8217;t watch his own movies, but why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-04-28\" datetime=\"1777404308\" pubdate=\"\">28 April 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/george-clooney\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,george-clooney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Clooney<\/a> rarely watches his old films.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">George Clooney doesn&#8217;t watch his own movies<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old actor &#8211; who has starred in a host of high-profile movies, including From Dusk Till Dawn, Michael Clayton, Burn After Reading, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Gravity &#8211; has enjoyed huge success in Hollywood, but George rarely watches himself on screen.<\/p>\n<p>George &#8211; who married his wife Amal in 2014 &#8211; told People: &#8220;It&#8217;s a weird thing. As you get older, it&#8217;s hard to watch movies when you were younger because you&#8217;re like, &#8216;Holy s***, that doesn&#8217;t even look like me anymore.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George said the exception was Fantastic Mr. Fox, which he recently watched with his eight-year-old twins Alexander and Ella.<\/p>\n<p>George said: &#8220;I was watching Fantastic Mr. Fox, which is a little easier because it&#8217;s not really me, it&#8217;s just my voice. That&#8217;s kind of fun because the kids are slowly figuring out what I do for a living, you know? But the rest of it &#8230; Listen, it&#8217;s hard because I tend to not want to look back, but now that I&#8217;m gonna be 65 in a week, looking forward&#8217;s a lot shorter view, you know what I mean? So maybe I&#8217;ll look back later, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, in December, George claimed to have &#8220;rediscovered&#8221; his love of acting.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe veteran actor has emerged from an unsatisfying spell in his career, having taken on some relatively easy film roles.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe told Variety: &#8220;I got my groove back as an actor.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I rediscovered why I love this profession. It\u2019s not that I wasn\u2019t challenging myself on my last few films, but I knew how to play those parts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBy contrast, George relished the challenge of playing a movie star past his matinee idol prime in Jay Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;With this one, I felt like I did when I started acting and was trying to figure it out. You\u2019re thinking, \u2018Am I a fraud? Am I going to be found out?\u2019 It\u2019s a really good place to be, to feel off your game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nGeorge initially felt that Noah Baumbach, who co-wrote and directed the film, had misjudged him. But ultimately, George relished starring in the new movie.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;I read the script, and there was a part of me that went, \u2018Does he think this is who I am?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Because I knew Noah a little bit, and this character\u2019s deeply unhappy and kind of a jerk. But then I thought it might be fun to play someone who thinks he\u2019s a good guy, but everything he touches, he destroys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/hollywood-star-george-clooney-watch-movies-1441427.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 April 2026 George Clooney rarely watches his old films. George Clooney doesn&#8217;t watch his own movies The 64-year-old actor &#8211; who has starred in a host of high-profile movies, including From Dusk Till Dawn, Michael Clayton, Burn After Reading, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Gravity &#8211; has enjoyed huge success in Hollywood, but George rarely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[107,106,2066],"class_list":{"0":"post-237269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-amal-clooney","9":"tag-george-clooney","10":"tag-noah-baumbach"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}