George Clooney reveals the “hardest part” of his Broadway role

George Clooney is facing a challenge in his Broadway debut: smoke a significant amount of prop -cigarettes on stage.

When Clooney, 63, appeared in the Sunday March 23 section 23 60 minutes In order to discuss his role as the mid-20th century, journalist Edward R. Murrow broadcast in New Play Good night and good luckit twice Oscar winner Quoted to have to smoke as many prop -cigarettes as a major obstacle for him to overcome during rehearsals and note that many of his family members have died of lung cancer over the years.

“The hardest thing for me is smoking,” he said. “He smokes a lot. And we smoke a lot in the game. Everyone smokes in the piece, so the place is covered with smoke. And smoking in our family is a big one, you know, problems.”

“We grew up in Kentucky. A Lotta Tobacco farmers,” added Clooney. “And almost all my family members died of lung cancer. My father’s sister, Rosemary, died of it. She was a wonderful singer-died of it. And my dad’s 91 because he didn’t smoke. So smoking has always been difficult to do.”

Clooney previously directed a movie version of Good night and good luck 2005 who played with David Strathairn as Murrow, who died in 1975 at 57. In that movie, Clooney portrayed Murrow’s news producer Fred W. Friendly. When you talk to New York Times In February to adapt the film to a stage production, Clooney noted that he planned to smoke herbal cigarettes on stage.

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“I had to get better at breathing in,” he said about smoking. In that interview, Clooney told Times that eight of his aunt and uncles died of lung cancer. “I go out so the kids don’t see and smoke a little.”

Good night and good luck Follows Murrow’s public conflict with US Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s during McCarthy’s notorious service investigating adopted communist sympathizers in the United States at the height of the Cold War.

When 60 minutes Ask Clooney, who has acted for the screen since 1978, if he wished he had moved to Broadway earlier in his career, he said, “I don’t know I could have it. I wasn’t- I didn’t do the work required to get there.”

Good night and good luck Officially opens on Thursday, April 3 at Winter Garden Theater in NYC before the stage role, Clooney directed by the 2023 The boys in the boat and appeared 2024 movies Wolf and IF.