George Clooney roasts his ‘midlife crisis’ brunette hair — and reveals what Amal thinks

It’ll be one fine day for George Clooney when he can go back to his roots.
The actor, 64, isn’t thrilled about dyeing his hair brunette for his Broadway play “Good Night, and Good Luck” — and will return to silver fox status when the takes his final bow on June 8.
“It’s bad. It’s still dark on top, but it’s gray at the bottom,” he confessed while on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on Monday. “So you get that really nice-looking grow-out of gray.”
Clooney wore a hat on the show, telling Myers, 51, he wanted to “hide” his hair transformation.
“The last show is Sunday,” he added. “We do a matinee, and then by the time we go to the Tonys that night, it’ll be gone.”
Meyers told the “Ticket to Paradise” star that his hair looked “great on stage,” as Clooney sarcastically quipped: “Sure.”
“It really looks bad,” Clooney went on. “It looks like [I’m] going through some horrible midlife crisis. I’m 64 — midlife is a little stretch.”
Meanwhile, the “Wolfs” alum expressed his wife, Amal Clooney, found his new look “funny,” but he did note she will “be glad when it’s gone.”
Clooney has some ideas of what look could come next.
“I may have a shaved head. I may look like Yul Brynner,” he detailed.
“Good Night, and Good Luck,” which opened on April 3, marked Clooney’s first time on Broadway as he portrays Edward R. Murrow, the journalist who wrote the 1954 exposé piece on Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The play is adapted from the 2005 movie of the same name. Clooney directed and co-wrote the film, which also starred David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson and Robert Downey Jr.
However, in 2005, he played Murrow’s producer Fred Friendly.
The show nabbed several nominations at the 2025 Tony Awards, including Clooney garnering a nod for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play.
The production is also up for Best Scenic Design of a Play, Best Sound Design of a Play, Best Lighting Design of a Play and Best Costume Design of a Play.
In March, Clooney reflected on playing Fred Friendly 20 years ago.
“Murrow had a gravitas to him that at 42 years old I didn’t,” he said while on 60 Minutes. “I wasn’t able to pull off.”
This time around, he feels differently.
“It’s exciting to be here, you know?” Clooney said about his Broadway debut. “Let’s not kid ourselves. It’s nerve-wracking and there’s a million reasons why it’s dumb to do.”
“It’s dumb to do because you’re coming out and saying, ‘Well, let’s try to get an audience to take this ride with you back to 1954.’”
Clooney grew up in newsrooms beside his father, Nick Clooney, who was a journalist and anchor.
“When I was 12 years old, my dad was working at WKRC in Cincinnati,” the star reflected. “I would run the teleprompter.”
Having it be his first time in live theater, Clooney stated about the audience, “I’m not looking at them.”
He teased: “I’m putting my wife in the very, very, very back.”