Venice: George Clooney Fights Infection to Walk ‘Jay Kelly’ Red Carpet

George Clooney again showed that he is the Hollywood consummate professional in fighting the disease to make the red carpet for the world premiere of his new film, Jay Kellyat the Venice International Film Festival.

Until he walked along the carpet, with his arm with his wife, Amal Clooney, to enter the Grande de Venice on Thursday night, it was not clear if Clooney would succeed. It is in the city to promote the drama directed by Noah Baumbach, in which he plays the titular character, a very -style film from George Clooney in the middle of a personal crisis, but retired from the press commitments and the media during the first two days of the festival due to a poor sinusus infection.

Clooney lost the Jay Kelly Press conference today and shorten some media commitments on Wednesday. According to the reports, it was also rescued in an elegant private dinner with Baumbach and cast partners.

«Even film stars get sick,» Baumbach joked, commenting on Clooney’s NO-Show at the press conference.

A source close to the movie said The Hollywood Reporter That presence of Clooney on the red carpet was tactile and that Clooney is unlikely to feel through the film. It is not expected that he travel to the next Telluride Film Festival to support his next projection of Jay Kelly.

Clooney stars Jay Kelly In a paper that seems to measure for him: a worldwide fame actor who faces a late calculation, which begins to question his life choices, since he is crossing Europe with his fiercely loyal manager, played by Adam Sandler. The film was co -written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, who has a small role as a stylist by Jay Kelly.

Jay Kelly It is being screened in the competition in Venice, one of the three competition titles of Netflix, and is being positioned by the streamer as a great work of awards, with Clooney and Sandler that is expected to receive a thrust of the Oscar season for their performances.

Together with Baumbach, Sandler and co -star Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and Emily Mortimer, Clooney joined the Venice Carpet for her agent, the power representative of Caa Bryan Lourd.

More to come.