George Clooney skips Jay Kelly’s press conference in Venice: “He has a sinusitis, he must rest at rest”. Will it be on the red carpet?

George Clooney He did not show up today at the official press conference of Jay Kellythe new film by Noah Baumbach in competition at the Venice Festival 2025. The actor, who arrived on August 26th at the Lido together with his wife Amal, after spending part of the summer on Lake Como, reduced his commitments to the Festival due to an infection for paranasal sinuses.

“George has been diagnosed with a sinusitis and, on the order of the doctors, he must suspend all the activities of the day,” reads an official note. To talk about the film, therefore, the director Baumbach and the rest of the cast thought about it: Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crredup and Emily Mortimer. “The stars get sick too,” Baumbach joked in front of the photographers, disappointed after hours of waiting for the absence of Clooney.

If the absence from the conference has left a void, the wait for the evening red carpet promises to fill it: Clooney is expected to the world premiere. In Jay KellyClooney plays a decline cinema star who finds himself dealing with his past, career and his affections. Thus began a trip to Europe, including planes, trains and cars, together with its historic manager, played by Sandler. The film, on Netflix from December 5, after a transition to the cinema, was written by Baumbach with Emily Mortimer, here at the debut as a screenwriter for the cinema. Jay Kelly, It is one of the three titles that Netflix brings in competition this year to Lido, together with A House of Dynamite by Kathryn Bigelow e Frankenstein of Guillermo del Toro.