George Clooney Gushes Over 'Dear Friend' Adam Sandler: 'He's the Sweetest Man in the World' (Exclusive)

George Clooney counts Adam Sandler among his closest friends and collaborators.

“I emotion him,” Clooney, 64, tells PEOPLE astatine nan Monday, Sept. 29 premiere of Jay Kelly, successful which he and Sandler, 59, star respectively arsenic a movie prima and his manager. The caller movie marks nan first clip nan 2 actors person worked together onscreen. 

“He's nan sweetest man successful nan world. He's a beloved friend and nan truth that I sewage to activity pinch him —” says nan Oscar winner, adding an appreciative shrug. 

“I’ve really been making Adam wear suits,” Clooney jokes, referencing his costar’s signature casual style. “Don't you deliberation he looks nicer? Instead of those large baggy shorts?”

Jay Kelly (in theaters connected Nov. 14 and streaming connected Netflix Dec. 5) hails from head and co-writer Noah Baumbach and writer-star Emily Mortimer, costarring Laura Dern, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and more. It follows nan titular movie character connected a soul-searching travel passim Europe, pinch Sandler arsenic 1 of nan galore members of his squad providing support. 

“The cast,” Clooney raves, is “unbelievable. Billy Crudup steals nan full show and he’s successful 1 scene.” 

With a wry smile, he quips, “I want to termination him.”

Clooney antecedently praised Sandler’s melodramatic skills, saying successful an August Vanity Fair interview that Jay Kelly “shows what a beautiful, heartfelt, soulful character he is… I kept telling nan cast, ‘Don’t telephone him Sand Man. Don’t talk to him for illustration he’s conscionable immoderate goofy comedian. He’s really a really beautiful, awesome actor.'"

The Happy Gilmore writer-star had arsenic bully things to opportunity astir Clooney. “He did make maine immoderate of nan champion cups of java I ever had,” Sandler tells PEOPLE astatine nan movie’s premiere. “Once aliases doubly a week, I sewage a bully George coffee.”

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Jay Kelly besides costars Grace Edwards, Stacy Keach, Riley Keough, Isla Fisher and Patrick Wilson. Following its starry premieres astatine nan movie festivals successful Venice and New York, nan movie will beryllium successful theaters connected Nov. 14 and streaming connected Netflix Dec. 5.