George Clooney Almost Starred In ‘The Notebook’

The actor said he was originally attached to play Noah, with Hollywood veteran Paul Newman due to play him as the elder version. “We were going to do ‘The Notebook’ together. Basically, I was going to play him as a young man, and it was funny. We met and said, ‘This is it. It’s going to be great’,” Clooney said of Newman, who died in 2008. But Clooney said he passed on the role after he watched Newman’s old films, realising they didn’t resemble at all.

“He’s one of the handsomest guys you’ve ever seen. We met up (again) and I said, ‘I can’t play you. I don’t look anything like you. This is insane’. We just wanted to do it because we wanted to work together, (but) it ended up being not the right thing for us to do,” he added. Interestingly, Clooney would go on to direct and co-star with Gosling in the 2011 political drama “The Ides of March”.