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George Clooney Says "When I Grow Up, I Want to Be Noah Wyle" as Two Stars Unite 30 Years After 'ER'
Clooney and Wyle were both honored at AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday, where they gave special tributes to each other.
Link: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/george-clooney-noah-wyle-unite-30-years-after-er-1236469459/
The Movies for Grownups Awards on Saturday night played host to an ER reunion, as George Clooney and Noah Wyle reunited (twice) on the awards stage and talked about their longtime friendship.
Both men were winners at the AARP awards show — best actor for Clooney (Jay Kelly) and Wyle for best TV actor (The Pitt).
In presenting to Wyle, Clooney joked that AARP should do a “Sexiest Man Still Alive” issue and declared, “I would nominate Noah Wyle as the first guy.”
“I met Noah in 1993. He hadn’t worked a lot yet and we did this show called ER and it was this crazy hit. At one time we had 40 million people watching and I remember Noah going, ‘Is that good?’ I was like, ‘That’s good, that’ll never happen again.’ He was wise beyond his years from the very beginning, from the very start,” Clooney told the crowd at the Beverly Wilshire. “He was the kindest person I ever met. We became very dear friends very quickly, and remained that way.”
He went on to compliment The Pitt star as a great father and husband as well as an actor, adding, “I’m very proud to call him a friend, I’m also proud to call him a colleague. When I grow up, I want to be Noah Wyle.”
“You got me choked up there buddy,” Wyle said as he took the stage, before crediting much of what he does on the set of The Pitt as an actor, writer, executive producer and director to what he learned from Clooney on ER.
“I remember vividly, the first week of ER, he called the entire cast into his trailer and said ‘OK everybody, this is how it’s gonna be. We’re going to be nice to everyone. There’s not going to be any divisions between the cast and crew or foreground and background, we’re going to learn our lines, we’re going to be on time,'” and take the work seriously themselves, Wyle recalled. He continued, “After that, that was the way it worked, and the first 15 years of my career, that is how it worked. And I spent the next 15 years trying to find that feeling — that sense of family, that sense of commitment. It was only with The Pitt that I found it again.”
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Both men were winners at the AARP awards show — best actor for Clooney (Jay Kelly) and Wyle for best TV actor (The Pitt).
In presenting to Wyle, Clooney joked that AARP should do a “Sexiest Man Still Alive” issue and declared, “I would nominate Noah Wyle as the first guy.”
“I met Noah in 1993. He hadn’t worked a lot yet and we did this show called ER and it was this crazy hit. At one time we had 40 million people watching and I remember Noah going, ‘Is that good?’ I was like, ‘That’s good, that’ll never happen again.’ He was wise beyond his years from the very beginning, from the very start,” Clooney told the crowd at the Beverly Wilshire. “He was the kindest person I ever met. We became very dear friends very quickly, and remained that way.”
He went on to compliment The Pitt star as a great father and husband as well as an actor, adding, “I’m very proud to call him a friend, I’m also proud to call him a colleague. When I grow up, I want to be Noah Wyle.”
“You got me choked up there buddy,” Wyle said as he took the stage, before crediting much of what he does on the set of The Pitt as an actor, writer, executive producer and director to what he learned from Clooney on ER.
“I remember vividly, the first week of ER, he called the entire cast into his trailer and said ‘OK everybody, this is how it’s gonna be. We’re going to be nice to everyone. There’s not going to be any divisions between the cast and crew or foreground and background, we’re going to learn our lines, we’re going to be on time,'” and take the work seriously themselves, Wyle recalled. He continued, “After that, that was the way it worked, and the first 15 years of my career, that is how it worked. And I spent the next 15 years trying to find that feeling — that sense of family, that sense of commitment. It was only with The Pitt that I found it again.”
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I love "the Pitt." Wylie was inspired by COVID and its devastation to both patients, but especially the health care works who tried to save them, often at their own expense--that includes his own mother, a very experienced nurse.
My only holdup is that some of the scenes in the operating rooms are so realistic (bloody) that I get a little queasy.
