Brown is not George Clooney’s color. And his wife, British Lebanese lawyer Amal Clooney, doesn’t disagree. The actor, who’s currently playing the leg
Brown is not George Clooney’s color. And his wife, British Lebanese lawyer Amal Clooney, doesn’t disagree. The actor, who’s currently playing the legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow in the Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck, had to darken his hair to match the character. As a result, the 63-year-old Oscar winner is now sporting pronounced brown locks, far from his natural gray hair color—though the look is fleeting, as the show will close right before the Tony Awards this weekend.
During his appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Monday, Clooney revealed that Amal is already looking forward to the dye fading. “She thinks it’s funny. She’ll be glad when it’s gone,” he told Meyers. At least the couple approached his fresh look with a great deal of humor. “I’m not used to it. You never get used to it,” he confided in an interview with CBS Mornings in April. “Listen, I started getting gray when I was 25, so I’ve been gray most of my life. So it’s not my favorite look, and my wife, she thinks it’s funny.”
The couple aren’t the only ones laughing about Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck look. Their twins, Alexander and Ella, also reacted to the dye job by bursting into laughter. “They laugh at it because, honestly, nothing makes you look older than being 63 and dying your hair,” he told Gayle King. Parisian hairstylist Brice Goliard confirms that: “From a certain age, especially when the first white hairs appear, men should avoid dying their hair. If the aim is to look younger, the opposite is often the case. It’s not very elegant, and not very natural.”
Amal’s husband may not be a unanimous favorite at home with his darker hair, but he has been widely praised for his performances onstage. The Broadway production, which premiered at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre on April 3, earned five Tony nominations, including a best-actor nod for Clooney.
Original story in VF France.
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