I was dizzy, breathing the same air as him, under considerable neck strain from craning through the dark trying to get a look at his facial expressions, and thinking longingly about the ER episode in which he rescued a drowning child from a storm drain. I had always deluded myself that when put to the test, my dignity would triumph over my hormones. Here was the humbling reality.
George Clooney set pulses racing as Dr Doug Ross in ‘ER’ (Photo: Sven Arnstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty)
Now, despite Clooney’s obvious, erm, appeal, he has actually been swerving romance roles for several decades. That streak with One Fine Day opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in 1996 and Intolerable Cruelty opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2003 is a distant memory, and hardly typecast him – he has spent much more of his career doing space epics and political thrillers and Coen Brothers comedies, working behind the camera, and larking about with Brad Pitt and the Obamas. Rom coms he has mostly given a wide berth, but his last, 2022’s Ticket to Paradise, was a hoot, in which he and Julia Roberts played a divorced couple forced to put aside their differences and fly to Bali to sabotage their daughter’s wedding.
Increasingly, that trope is getting gender flipped: Emma Thompson in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Nicole Kidman in Babygirl. Anne Hathaway in the awful The Idea of You. And obviously, the wonderful Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, whose age-gap romance between Renée Zellweger and Leo Woodall felt neither gimmicky nor icky (the film also did a clever job of painting Hugh Grant’s own wizened cad as experiencing some kind of personal crisis). These films about “older” women with younger men might balance the books a bit, but in fetishising the men’s youth, they never deliver what people really want from a romance, which is wish fulfilment. The fantasy of the perfect relationship we can really believe will be happy ever after.
George Clooney on the red carpet for ‘Wolfs’ at last year’s Venice Film festival (Photo: Stefania D’Alessandro/WireImage)At 25 an actor hasn’t even aged out of “crass and pubescent” into “immature manchild”. At 25 they are unable to inhabit the kind of experience, confidence, and self-possession that allows their audience – mostly women – to indulge that fantasy of a viable, perfect, and, crucially, romantic relationship. You’ve Got Mail, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary – the best romances do not feature 25-year-old men.
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I’ll tell you why George Clooney is so attractive to women. It’s not the charisma, the kind, twinkly eyes, the easy, trustworthy smile, the intelligence, the manners, the charm, the sense of humour, the stubble, the principles, the discretion, the playfulness, the pranks. It’s not that it’s always a surprise to discover he is tall, because he has a habit of leaning in when he speaks to make himself less imposing. Or that for a considerable chunk of his early adulthood his closest companion was a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig.
Declaring he’s giving up romance movies is one more dignified move right from the Clooney playbook – but no 25-year-old can replace him as the world’s dream man.
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