George Clooney said the reason for this decision was because he was 63 years old and “wasn’t trying to compete with 25-year-old male leads”.

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George Clooney is putting his romantic days behind him. Speaking on “60 Minutes” while promoting his lead role in the Broadway play “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the 63-year-old actor told fans that he will no longer do “romance movies.”

George Clooney’s last romantic comedy was 2022’s “Ticket to Paradise,” which he co-starred in with Julia Roberts, which grossed $168 million at the worldwide box office.

“I’m 63 years old. I’m not trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men anymore,” said George Clooney. “That’s not my job. I’m not doing romantic movies anymore.”

“60 Minutes” said that Clooney’s “Sexiest Man Alive” period in the early 2000s marked one of the peaks of his film career, and Clooney agreed that it was a “great time” for him. However, that period is over. 

George Clooney’s film career has seen him appear in romantic films like 1996’s “One Fine Day” with Michelle Pfeiffer and 2003’s “Intolerable Cruelty” with Catherine Zeta-Jones.

“Ticket to Paradise” proved to be a hit, marking Clooney and Roberts’ long-awaited return to the genre. Roberts told The New York Times that she had refused to do romantic films for 20 years because of bad scripts.