Noah Baumbach on “Jay Kelly,” His New Movie with George Clooney
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. The filmmaker Noam Baumbach was long known for comedies and dramas that drew on his own life. Films like The Squid and the Whale and Marriage Story.
But things changed, and so did Baumbach's source material. In 2022 he released White Noise, which is based on the novel by Don DeLillo. And then in 2023, he worked on a smash hit in Hollywood called Barbie. He co-wrote the script with Greta Gerwig, who directed. Baumbach's latest film is something of a return to form.
It's a sharp character study of an extremely handsome, extremely famous movie star having an identity crisis. George Clooney, of course, plays the actor, and Adam Sandler is his beleaguered manager. Suddenly remembering things I haven't thought about in a long time. Family's losing it at home. It's like a movie where I'm playing myself or watching myself.
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