
The familiar narrative of George Clooney, the perennial Hollywood charmer, suddenly feels fractured. For decades, his professional partnership with friend Julia Roberts has been one of the most bankable and publicly cherished relationships in cinema.
Yet, when Roberts celebrated the New York City premiere of her psychological thriller, After the Hunt, she walked the red carpet without her longtime friend and Ocean's Eleven co-star. Clooney was not merely too busy, however; he was allegedly choosing to focus entirely on his wife, Amal Clooney, stepping out for a conspicuous date night elsewhere amid a vicious new surge of divorce rumours.