14 DAY TRIAL // Having long come to terms that he can’t have a normal life if he also wants to make movies, all that’s left for George Clooney to do is try to make the most of what’s been given to him. In a new interview with Parade, the actor opens up about loss of privacy and fame.
He also talks a bit about his personal life and how he continues to be amazed that people would pay this much importance to his love life, especially since he makes a point of not talking about any lady he may be dating – and has been doing so for years.
The fault with our society for the celebrity obsession could lie in this tendency of oversharing, of detailing every experience we have to strangers, Clooney believes.
“I don’t tweet, I don’t go on Facebook. I think there’s too much information about all of us out there. I’m liking the idea of privacy more and more,” he tells the magazine.
“There will be funny things, like I’ll read something I’ve said about a woman somewhere. And I haven’t spoken about my relationships in 15 years,” Clooney goes on to say.
Always the type of man that likes to keep all aspects of his personal life out of the magazines and off the Internet, Clooney remains, to this day, the exact opposite of today’s Hollywood celebrity.
The same applies where age is concerned: unlike other fellow actors, George doesn’t dread turning 50 or the idea of growing old in particular.
“I look at myself on-screen and go, ‘I don’t look like I did when I was 40 – I know that.’ The people I’ve respected most in the industry over the years – Paul Newman, for instance, I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen,” he says for Parade.
“By the time you get a subscription to AARP, which I just got, you have some idea of who your friends are, at least. [Getting the AARP subscription] shocked me – ‘Are you kidding?’ [laughs] I told them they should do ‘The Sexiest Man Still Alive’,” the actor continues, with his trademark sense of humor.