George Clooney and Noah Wyle onER.Photo: Sven Arnstein/NBCU
George Clooneyknows the secret behindER’s long-lasting success: friendship.
More than a decade after the show ended its 15-season run, Clooney, 61, revealed in a teaser forThe Drew Barrymore Show’s Friday episode that the cast is still close today.
“I guess it was the friendship I have with all of them and that I continue to have,” he told hostDrew Barrymore.
“I had[Anthony] Tony Edwardsat the house in Italy three weeks ago — he and Mare came,” Clooney said, adding that he is also still “really close” withJulianna MarguliesandNoah Wyle.
“They’re really good friends,” he continued. “And so I feel that [show] was a job of a lifetime. And it changed my career.”
In 2019,ER’s executive producer, John Wells, suggested that the possibility of the seriesscoring a rebootwasn’t completely out the window.
“Wemade an awful lot ofERs, 331 episodes,” he told Deadline. “That’s a lot of hours, so I can’t imagine that we would, but if somebody came in with a really interesting idea about how to do it, we might.”
Cast ofER.Sven Arnstein/NBCU
Though a reboot has not yet been confirmed, the cast came together for avirtual reunion in 2021to support costarGloria Reuben’s organization,Waterkeeper Alliance, which aims to ensure that communities globally have clean water.
During the reunion, Clooney expressed how he was excited to connect with the cast again.
“These are people that I really love, you know, and that — we grew up together, really grew up together, in many ways, and it’s fun to see you guys,” he said.
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Wyle also revealed during the special how Clooney helped toset the tone for the on-set environment.
“George, very early on, remember: you called us all to your trailer and you said, ‘I’ve had the benefit of being on seven series that haven’t bond. Here’s what we’re going to do differently. We’re all going to be nice to everybody and we’re going to erase the line between foreground and background and cast and crew, and we’re all going to take our work seriously, but we’re not going to take ourselves seriously. We’re going to do our homework and we’re not going to waste rehearsal learning our lines,'” recalled Wyle, who played John Carter.
“You kind of laid out, you know, the ABCs of professionalism and that just became the standard that we operated under,” he continued. “It should be standard operating procedure, but in a way, it was something that we kept our own counsel and were harsher on each other as castmates than anybody else above us was ever going to be. And we kept each other honest.”
source: people.com
