During a recent interview with the Daily Mail, Clooney said that after having a discussion with his wife, Amal Clooney, about his age, he will no longer be “kissing girls” in movies.

“I’ve been trying to go the route Paul Newman did–well, I’m not kissing a girl anymore,’” Clooney said.

He added, “When I turned 60, I had a conversation with my wife. I said, ‘Look, I can still play basketball with the boys. I play with 25-year-old guys. I can still hang, I’m in shape. But in 25 years, I’m 85 years old. It doesn’t matter how many granola bars you eat, that’s a real number.’”

The “Ocean’s Eleven” star may have been hinting at this decision for a while. He told “60 Minutes” back in March that he was stepping away from “romantic films” entirely to make room for Hollywood’s new crop of leading men.

In a 2022 sitdown with the NY Times, Clooney recalled that even early in his career, he had trouble with director who criticized his on-screen kissing technique.

Clooney said, “I remember early on in my career, I had to do a kissing scene with this girl and the director goes, ‘Not like that.’ And I was like, ‘Dude, that’s my move! That’s what I do in real life!’”