The actor has been dubbed ‘unrecognisable’<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/03\/imago800318822-scaled.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”George Clooney Meets The Cast Of ‘Good Night, And Good Luck'” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] A \u2018day of mourning\u2019 has been called following the news that George Clooney, the definitive silver fox, has dyed his hair. A beacon of hope for grey-haired men around the world since 2009, Clooney was recently spotted with suspiciously brown locks during an outing with his wife Amal Clooney.<\/p>\n He has already been called \u2018unrecognisable\u2019 online, which is somewhat ironic given that the picture in question shows Clooney from behind entering a car.<\/p>\n Fear not, though, the Hollywood star is not entirely abandoning his roots. Apparently, he has dyed his hair ahead of his upcoming Broadway debut in Good Night, And Good Luck<\/em> \u2013 an adaptation of the film he wrote, directed and starred in in 2005. He plays the role of Edward R. Murrow, a famous journalist, and wanted to give the character a \u2018slightly younger look\u2019.<\/p>\n However, he is far from thrilled about his new do. During a recent interview with the New York Times<\/em> the actor said, \u2018My wife is going to hate it because nothing makes you look older than when an older guy dyes his hair.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018My kids are going to just laugh at me nonstop,\u2019 he added, referring to the couple\u2019s twins, Alexander and Ella, who were born in 2017.<\/p>\n In fact, Clooney is making his disdain for his brunette makeover well known. In other recent pictures, he is seen walking around New York wearing a tweed fedora to cover his hair altogether.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] Despite being known for his silver hair, the Ticket to Paradise<\/em> star has had a complicated relationship with the shade over the years, once admitting to GQ<\/em> that he thought \u2018Jesus, who\u2019s the old, grey-haired guy?\u2019 when he first started turning grey.<\/p>\n In 2020, he also admitted to CBS Sunday Morning<\/em> that he has been \u2018cutting [his] own hair for 25 years\u2019. Adding, \u2018Look, my hair is really like straw, and so it\u2019s easy to cut. You can\u2019t really make too many mistakes.\u2019<\/p>\n He attributes his cut to \u2018a thing called a Flowbee\u2019 which comes with a vacuum cleaner and clippers and allows him to polish up his trim \u2018in literally two minutes\u2019. It\u2019s a device that gained popularity through infomercials in the 1980s, but Clooney insists it still works for him. \u2018It requires two lungs because one is the vacuum and one is the trimmer,\u2019 he told Entertainment Tonight in December 2020. \u2018I think my wife a few years ago, she came in and saw me use it \u2013 it makes this sound, it sounds like a hurricane \u2013 and she goes, \u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d I go, \u201cI\u2019m cutting me hair.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n It\u2019s difficult to believe that an A-list Hollywood actor of his stature really runs over his skull with a razor in less time than it takes to brush his teeth, but what do we know?<\/p>\n We can next expect to see Clooney star in Jay Kelly<\/em>, a coming-of-age film on Netflix that follows two middle-aged friends as they rediscover their youthful spirit during a chaotic weekend reunion. Don\u2019t worry, Clooney\u2019s signature silver strands are restored in the role \u2013 to the relief of his many admirers, and his fellow grey-haired fans. The film, which is directed by Noah Baumbach, also features Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Riley Keough and Billy Crudup and is set to be released on the streaming platform on 10 March.<\/p>\n His priority for now, though, is Good Night, And Good Luck<\/em>. Clooney has said the stage will be transformed into a newsroom with 30 monitors moving around showing old footage. David Cromer, the award-winning director, recruited the production designer David Bengali to \u2018recreate what it\u2019s like to watch television being made\u2019.<\/p>\n Unfavourable brown hair aside, Clooney is apparently feeling nervous about his turn on stage. \u2018I\u2019m terrified of it,\u2019 he told the New York Times<\/em>. \u2018Are you kidding? I\u2019m doing 11 monologues. When you get older, your recall isn\u2019t the same. When I was doing \u201cER\u201d, it was 12 pages of medical dialogue. You look at it in the morning and you say, \u201cOK, let\u2019s go!\u201d Now you get older and you\u2019re going, \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with me? Well don\u2019t think any wine tonight.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n The film was originally written as a critique of the press ahead of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. At the time, Clooney called out President George W. Bush for his decision to go to war and was called a traitor for doing so. \u2018It was a pretty tough time,\u2019 he admitted. Adding that \u2018we need the press\u2019 because \u2018government unchecked is a problem\u2019.<\/p>\n It certainly sounds as though Clooney and the rest of the cast have some weight subjects to contend with on stage \u2013 ones that are particularly topical in the current political climate. Let\u2019s hope the script and their performances outshine Clooney\u2019s \u2018transformational\u2019 brown hair (and that he grows it back out to grey as soon as the run ends).<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>IMAGO<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" George Clooney has already been dubbed ‘unrecognisable’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7772"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7781,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7772\/revisions\/7781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘My wife is going to hate it’ \u2013 George Clooney<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]