Sylvia Plath

Jay Kelly: What does it take to be yourself?

Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly opens with a quote by Sylvia Plath, "It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all." This remains a mirror of the story that Jay Kelly roots from. The film takes you into the life of an extravagantly successful movie star—the world’s beloved, yet ironically not the ideal family man in his daughters' eyes. The film features George Clooney, as Baumbach has mentioned that he wrote Jay Kelly with George in mind. He said, “We all have a relationship with George Clooney as an actor and movie star from over t | Click Here...