George Clooney is determined to have his signature grey hair again.
The actor revealed that he would quite shave his total head than present as much as the upcoming Tony Awards with the darkish brunette locks he’s been sporting for his Broadway debut in “Good Night time, and Good Luck.”
“I could have a shaved head. I could appear like Yul Brynner,” Clooney, 64, joked Monday throughout his visitor look on “Late Night time with Seth Meyers,” referencing the late actor who famously stored a bald take care of shaving it for “The King and I.”
“The final present [for ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’] is Sunday. We do a matinee, after which by the point we go to the Tonys that night time [June 8], it’ll be gone,” he added of his non permanent ‘do.
Clooney — who sported a baseball hat to cowl up his locks through the interview — defined to viewers that his hair was in that awkward stage of rising out since he stopped dying it two months in the past.
“It’s dangerous. It’s nonetheless darkish on prime, however it’s grey on the backside. So that you get that basically nice-looking, grow-out of grey,” he shared. “It actually appears dangerous. It appears like [I’m] going by way of some horrible midlife disaster. I’m 64 — midlife is a bit of stretch.”
As for a way his spouse, 47-year-old Amal Clooney, likes it, he quipped, “She’ll be glad when it’s gone.”
George beforehand joked about how his spouse and their two youngsters — 7-year-old twins Alexander and Ella — weren’t actually loving his new search for his Broadway play, both.
“My spouse goes to hate it as a result of nothing makes you look older than when an older man dyes his hair,” he instructed the New York Occasions again in February. “My youngsters are going to only chortle at me nonstop.”
The tradeoff has clearly been price it, nevertheless. George is nominated for finest efficiency for a number one actor in a play on the 2025 Tony Awards for his function as legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow.
The Broadway manufacturing can also be nominated for finest sound design of a play, finest scenic design of a play, finest costume design of a play and finest lighting design of a play.
George lately sported the identical grey baseball cap he wore for his discuss present look whereas out and about with Amal on the Polo Bar in Midtown over the weekend, the place they had been joined by Bono and the U2 singer’s spouse, Ali Hewson.
The human rights lawyer regarded stylish in a strapless cherry print Stella McCartney gown that she paired with bronze Gianvitto Rossi heels, whereas George stored it basic in a navy blue swimsuit.
The 2025 Tony Awards — hosted by “Depraved” star Cynthia Erivo at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis — will air reside Sunday beginning at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.