--- title: George Clooney and Jimmy Kimmel Relive Altar Boy Days—Watch description: The Hail, Caesar! star once confessed to adultery…in second grade canonical: https://time.com/4205854/george-clooney-jimmy-kimmel-catholic-school-altar-boys/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-03T14:15:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:42:53.243Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch George Clooney Discuss His Catholic Schoolboy Days og:description: He once confessed to adultery…in second grade og:url: https://time.com/4205854/george-clooney-jimmy-kimmel-catholic-school-altar-boys/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch George Clooney Discuss His Catholic Schoolboy Days twitter:description: He once confessed to adultery…in second grade twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch George Clooney Discuss His Catholic Schoolboy Days With Jimmy Kimmel  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Feb 3, 2016 2:15 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Feb 3, 2016 2:15 PM CUT Leave it to an actor like George Clooney to make the pre-planned banter and anecdote-swapping of late-night shows feel like a genuine conversation. The star of the Coen Brothers’ upcoming _Hail, Caesar!_, which hits theaters Friday, relived his altar boy days with fellow Catholic Jimmy Kimmel—”I \[also\] know about wearing a dress for a job,” Kimmel joked in reference to Clooney’s [costume in the film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMqeoW3XRa0 "undefined"). Though their experiences differed, both remember struggling to come up with sins to confess when they started going to confession as young children. Kimmel would pretend he had been mean to his sister, but Clooney, in a grand misunderstanding, tried to confess to adultery…in second grade. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4205854/george-clooney-jimmy-kimmel-catholic-school-altar-boys/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4205854/george-clooney-jimmy-kimmel-catholic-school-altar-boys/"},"headline":"Watch George Clooney Discuss His Catholic Schoolboy Days With Jimmy Kimmel","datePublished":"2016-02-03T14:15:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:42:53.243Z","description":"He once confessed to adultery…in second grade","url":"https://time.com/4205854/george-clooney-jimmy-kimmel-catholic-school-altar-boys/","keywords":["celebrities","George Clooney","Jimmy Kimmel"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4205854/george-clooney-jimmy-kimmel-catholic-school-altar-boys/","name":"Watch George Clooney Discuss His Catholic Schoolboy Days With Jimmy Kimmel"}}]}] ```