
George Clooney Has 5 Words For Critics Who Say He Always Plays Himself
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“Do people say that I only play myself?” Clooney asked during an interview published Monday before sharing his reaction.
George Clooney doesn’t seem fazed by criticism concerning his acting.
The Oscar winner has famously played a wide variety of characters, including an emergency room doctor in “ER,” iconic superhero billionaire Bruce Wayne in “Batman & Robin” and an astronaut in “Gravity.”
However, critics often accuse him of playing himself in every project.
Clooney recently sat down with Vanity Fair to discuss his latest role as an aging A-lister with so-called limited range in Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly”— when he was asked about that criticism being lobbed against him offscreen.
“Do people say that I only play myself? I don’t give a shit,” Clooney told the outlet. “There aren’t that many guys in my age group that are allowed to do both broad comedies like ‘O Brother [Where Art Thou?]’ and then do ‘Michael Clayton’ or ‘Syriana.’”













