George Clooney isn’t going to do any more press conferences to promote his movies. The actor is reportedly sick of stupid stunts and getting marriage proposals from journalists, or rather, strippers posing as journalists.

Contact Music says Clooney was left a little red-faced at a Venice Film Festival press conference in September 2009 when a journo turned out to be a male stripper and took off his clothes while professing his love for the heartthrob. After that, Clooney reportedly started to become elusive and refused to promote his latest movie ‘Up In The Air,’ leaving interviews to co-stars Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. And apparently there’s more of the same coming in the future. No more George for the press.

He reportedly told Entertainment Weekly magazine, “When you’re at a certain place in your career where people know you, it’s not like you have to get known. I don’t want to be more famous. You realise that movies are either going to be successful or not based on the trailer and how it’s sold and what people’s perception of the movie is.

“I’ll do the red carpets, but I’m not going to do the press conferences anymore. You focus on a few smart interviews and try to do them every once in a while and make them hard to get.”

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