These days, the big Hollywood Starswolves have shared their time between the small and the big screens pretty sure; Hell, Nicole Kidman seems to have a new TV project every other week (in another wig, no less). However, in the 1990s and 2000s, television was considered a smaller medium, which means that the actors with a small screen were constantly trying to become large film stars and to leave their TV roots in the mirror. That is why, after five seasons like Dr -Doug Ross, George Clooney left Air for greener, more Chinese pastures.

It probably sounds like too much application to say that Clooney has stopped playing Doug Ross so he can focus on his film career, but that's essentially ... exactly what happened! Although Clooney made films like "Out of Sight" and his often mistreated Caped Crusader Flick "Batman & Robin" while playing Doug Ross, filming a network show with 20 episodes one season is A. Huge Weather commitment. With the eyes of the big screen, it makes sense that he decided to leave Chicago behind Hollywood. So, like Johnon Wells and the rest of the creative team behind Air wrote Doug Ross from the overall narrative? Has Clooney ever returned to repeat his role as Doug Ross? . Here's exactly how George Clooney left the NBC Air Medical Drama and how his career climbed to the stunning heights afterwards.

During his time at Air, Dr. Doug Ross - who begins the series as a pediatric associate before becoming the presence of a field that works specially in the emergency department - is an irreversible but extremely dedicated doctor who will do absolutely something To help his patients and his impulse silence the rules to serve patients at all costs is exactly why he is written outside the series. During Air Season 5, Doug treats a young boy named Ricky Abbott (Kyle Chambers) who has a rare disease called Adrenoleucodistrophy or ALD; Doug first crosses the limit when he gives him an experimental remedy for Ricky's pain, which may endanger the entire drug examination if anyone detects. (No cure for ally.)

Later, in the double episode "Storm"-where Doug enters a car accident with the assistant of doctor Jeanani Bullet (Gloria Ruben)-Dag not so secretly and allows Ricky's mother to access the hospital's locked offer, a cure for the end. It leads to Ricky's death after she enforced her to end suffering. To avoid a more scandal, DAG "moves to Seattle" and Clooney's latest appearance - as regularly - is in the second half of the "storm".

Although George Clooney left Air to continue with a more profitable and high-profile film career, he eventually returned to the series twice, though his first time was small (and super secret). In the episode of Season 6 "Such Sweet Sadness", Carol Hathaway-one of the first biggest "Air" characters played by Juluiana Margulis-decides to move to Seattle to be with her again, over, again, Doug Ross and in the very End of the episode, Doug does not play a modest stand; He played George Clooney himself. In an interview in 2024 with Television AcademyMarguils said the show -Shohnon Wells somehow managed to make Clooney's total secret, which really paid off - because when the audience saw it, they were shocked. "I remember my mom told me - she was so shocked because everyone knew that George is out of the show - my mother said she was screaming, which I think was a lot of people's reaction," Marguil recalled. "It was the real end for them because Carol and Doug were destined to be together."

In the season 15 of the Air-the last season of the long-standing medical series, in fact-and Marguils and Clooney reappear in the episode "Old Times", where they work together as a married couple at the University of Washington Medical Center. After convincing the sad grandmother, played by Susan Sarandon, to donate her nephew's organs ... But what they don't know is that the kidneys of that harvest go to their old friend and colleague Dr. Johnon Carter (Noah Will ) in Chicago while he is suffering his health crisis.

It is safe to say that leaving Air is the right move for George Clooney because he is now a Hollywood royal ... And maybe there would be no time Become a movie starvet if he was stuck for years as Doug Ross played. After leaving the show in 2000, Clooney has appeared in a fairly wide range of successful moviesIncluding the "Perfect Storm" and "Oh Brother, Where are you?" the same year; In the years that followed, he worked on everything from "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" to The Ocean franchise Let's "get into the air" to "monuments people".

Clooney eventually won his first Academy for his support in Syriana in 2006 and his second Argo production in 2013, but he was nominated for his performances in Michael Clayton, "Up in the Air" And "descendants," and appeared in the main best suggestions of the image as a masterpiece of Alfonso Kuaran in 2013 "Gravity". In recent years, Clooney has taken only a few roles, including in the romantic comedy "Paradise Ticket"-which unites it with the co-star of the "Ocean" Juloulia Roberts Apple TV+ Buddy "Wolves" comedy With his friend in real life Brad Pitt, but the venerable actor is also married (with human rights lawyer Amal Clooney) with two children, so he is a little busy. In any case, you can watch Dr. Doug Ross play on Air on Julu now, if you want to experience his days on a small screen.