George Clooney doesn’t think the camera is doing him any favors these days.
Instead of withering away in front of our eyes, the actor says when he retires, it’ll be to put that strong-jawed face of his in favor of hiding behind a director’s cap.
“As you age on screen you get to that point where you really understand that, you know, you can’t stay in front of the camera your whole life,” he told the BBC.
“It’s much more fun to be, and it’s infinitely more creative, to be directing. I think nobody really wants to see anybody really age.”
He adds, “You know, it’s a very unforgiving thing, the camera is, and so aging becomes something that you know, you try to do less and less on screen. You try to pick the films that work best for you and as you age they become less and less.”
Before you remove your tiny violin from its case, George does admit that the struggle is much more real for ladies in Hollywood. It’s “obviously a lot worse for women,” he says.
Kim Cattrall, 59, recently said that the “expiration date” for women in Hollywood is a whopping 35, and Carrie Fisher, also 59, admitted that she returned to Star Wars because as a woman over 50, she didn’t have many other offers. Well, that and it’s Star Wars.
Meryl Streep, 66, chimed in, telling Vogue that when she turned 40, the only roles she was offered were witches. “Once women passed child-bearing age they could only be seen as grotesque on some level,” Streep said.
Still, besides Russell Crowe who quite infamously said he was too old to play a gladiator, it’s not often a man in Hollywood—especially someone with George’s bone structure—enters this conversation.
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