George Clooney s Aunt Gave Him Drinking Advice at Age 7, W Magazine

The renowned actor and director George Clooney did not receive his most coveted, best piece of advice from a sage fellow thespianin fact, the guidance didn t have to do with acting at all. Never mix grain and grape, he says of the best advice he s ever received. (His aunt Rosemary told him this when he was seven years old. ) No wine and, like, tequila. We learn early in Kentuckya lot of It may not have been the nugget of information that catapulted him into stardomwhere he s remained since the mid 1990sbut it is in line with the cheerful, laidback demeanor for which Clooney is so wellknown. In this episode of Screen Tests with Lynn Hirschberg, Clooney describes how this outlook on life was tested: both during the pandemic while cleaning up after his kids, and on set filming his directorial debut, The Midnight Sky, amid subzero temperatures. Subscribe to W ABOUT W The Who, What, Where, When, and Why in