Nonetheless, it was useful context as to why the actor has been wearing this same gray baseball cap, which appears to be a custom piece of Good Night, and Good Luck merch featuring a cartoonish animal logo (a silver fox, perhaps?) and the play’s name stitched in red above the back closure. Earlier this week, he wore the cap to dinner with Amal and U2’s Bono at the Polo Bar in Manhattan; last month, he wore it to a Tony nominees luncheon.
Despite the acclaim—and record-breaking box-office returns—the show has awarded him, Clooney said he’s prepared to buzz off the dye job once Good Night closes with a final matinee on Sunday, just hours ahead of the Tony Awards ceremony. (In the 2005 film version of Good Night, and Good Luck, which the actor directed and co-wrote, a younger Clooney played Fred W. Friendly, Murrow’s co-producer.) At the very least, the hair has remained a reliable talking point for the actor throughout the show’s limited run.
“My wife is going to hate it because nothing makes you look older than when an older guy dyes his hair,” Clooney told the New York Times in February, adding, “My kids are going to just laugh at me nonstop,” referring to the couple’s seven-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella.
“I’m not used to it. You never get used to it,” he told Gayle King on CBS Mornings in April. “Listen, I started getting gray when I was 25, so I’ve been gray most of my life. So it’s not my favorite look.”
