Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly (2025)

Clooney, Sandler, Laura Dern:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXGOTiJY3nY

in before k3vin

Co-written by Emily Mortimer!

ky jelly

Jay Kelly obviously has the same cadence as George Clooney, but it also sounds like Gene Kelly.

he is an actooor in da movies

there's a perennial interest among the ho-polloi in what it must be like to be a rich famous actor. once again Hollywood wants to reassure us that it's a totally warped existence that's not much fun.

Looks a bit like Alexander Payne doing Danny Collins, but hey, charming actors, nice locations, I'm sure it's well written, so why not.

This is GIMMIE SOME OSCARS AF and I’ve never heard of Jay Kelly but why not, I’m down

Really I just want to see Clooney hit a double or a triple, it’s been a minute

Huh, I had to look up Danny Collins because I have *zero* memory of it. Pacino was even Globe-nominated! Weird.

Someone should program a series on actors playing characters that are essentially them or (to go in another direction) playing off their public personas - Fred Astaire in The Band Wagon, Peter Falk in Wings of Desire, Michael Keaton in Birdman, etc.

Realizing that I’ve only seen While We’re Young of NB’s features, a movie I finished but wasn’t into really

But whatever, I like this cast

preview makes the movie look annoying but at least i learned that stacey keach is still alive

While We’re Young was (I think) the first time I saw Adam Driver on screen and thought, as I have almost every time since, that I don’t quite understand why he’s a movie star

I spotted Mr. Driver in Spielberg's Lincoln in a bit part as a telegraph operator at the War Department. It came out a couple of years earlier. He was clearly not a movie star then, but landing a big role in a Star Wars flick makes anyone a movie star regardless of merit.

I was excited to see him in Lincoln because I'd been watching him on Girls, where he had a striking, unusual presence.