George Clooney got everything he could have wanted in the teaser trailer for Noah Baumbach ‘s Jay Kelly . The actor fittingly plays an actor in the titular role — but one who doesn’t know what comes after fame and fortune. “Are you running to something, or from something?” his manager Ron ( Adam Sandler ) asks, to which Jay Kelly responds, “Yes.”

Throughout the preview, Jay Kelly feels disconnected, wondering, “How can I play people when I don’t see people?” He barely sees himself, he admits. “I think I’m always alone,” he tells someone who insists he’s never alone. Being “just an actor that got famous” is a less complicated way of interrogating his reality than actually coming to terms with it. “You know how difficult it is to be yourself?” he asks.

Jay Kelly follows the fiction

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