We suppose that if you were to pass muster with two of Hollywood’s actors, George Clooney and Bill Murray would be pretty great ones with whom to find acceptance. After all, the duo certainly knows how to have a good time. And there is always the chance that you’d be invited to hang out with them in Italy to celebrate another monumental Clooney life event there. So with that in mind, we congratulate Miley Cyrus for proving herself cool enough to hang with the two actors.

And just how did Cyrus go about gaining their acceptance? By going shot for Casamigos-tequila shot with Clooney? By toasting a complete stranger, crashing an engagement photo shoot, or making a random minor-league-baseball-game appearance Murray-style? Or by pranking both? No. Cyrus earned the respect of her elder entertainment peers by co-starring with them in Murray’s 2015 Christmas special.

Clooney told Access Hollywood about the experience on Thursday. “I worked with Miley Cyrus,” the Oscar winner revealed. “So I've gotten to know Miley and we have a little Kentucky history together,” he said, referring to his and Billy Ray Cyrus’s home state. “She was fantastic to work with.”

Lest you have any doubts about Clooney’s sincerity, he continued, “I’m telling you [she was] fantastic and fun and a real pro. And Bill Murray and I had drinks a few nights ago and he was just talking about how impressed he was as an entertainer and also just as a—just in general as a pro, how professional she was. I really liked her.”

(If we were Miley Cyrus, we would have already changed our social-media profiles to reflect Clooney’s character endorsement.)

So just what will we see Clooney and Cyrus doing together in this Sofia Coppola–directed holiday special?

Clooney shared that he “ride[s] in a sleigh with Miley Cyrus, pulled by The Rockettes, I think. Or something like that.” So there’s always that to look forward to . . .

In the meantime, we wonder if Cyrus came away from the surreal filming experience thinking that both men were cool enough to hang out with her.