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George Clooney has a profanity-laced bone to choose with director Quentin Tarantino.
“Quentin mentioned some s—t about me just lately, so I’m a little bit irritated by him,” Clooney mentioned in an interview with GQ revealed on Tuesday, which he did alongside his “Wolfs” costar Brad Pitt.
Clooney went on to say that Tarantino “did some interview the place he was naming film stars” and that when Clooney’s title got here up, the “Pulp Fiction” director mentioned, in his opinion, that Clooney is “not a film star.”
“All proper, dude, f—okay off,” Clooney playfully continued, with Pitt – a frequent Tarantino collaborator – laughing within the background. “I don’t thoughts giving him s—t. He gave me s—t,” Clooney added.
The “Gravity” star is presumably referring to a dialog that Deadline columnist Baz Bamigboye had with Tarantino on the Cannes Movie Competition, which the journalist recalled in a 2023 column.
Tarantino and Bamigboye had been discussing who Tarantino thought-about to be a film star, with actors like Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron and Denzel Washington, amongst others, named as individuals who match the invoice.
However when it got here to Clooney, Tarantino mentioned, “Effectively, it’s been an extended whereas since I feel George Clooney has drawn anyone to an viewers… When was his final hit the place he drew an viewers?”
Clooney – who was directed by Tarantino in an early episode of “ER” in 1995 earlier than the pair went on to costar within the Tarantino-penned “From Nightfall Until Daybreak” one 12 months later – in recent times has opted to supply and direct extra tasks, versus act in them.
However with movies like “Wolfs,” premiering in September, and an upcoming Noah Baumbach-directed movie that he simply completed filming, Clooney acknowledged the explanation he’s shifted again to performing.
“It’s a 12 months on the street to direct, and now my children are of a sure age. We’re not going to uproot our youngsters out of college and run round,” he mentioned on this week’s interview. “Earlier than that, they might simply include us and we might all go. However that’s completely different now. So now I’m going to simply most likely deal with different issues, like performing.”
Clooney shares seven-year-old twins Ella and Alexander together with his spouse, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney.
In the long run although, Clooney additionally made positive to claim there’s no dangerous blood between him and Tarantino, as he acknowledged additional down within the GQ interview how “fortunate” he and Pitt have been to have repeatedly labored with a number of the greatest filmmakers in Hollywood, Tarantino included.
“However no, look, we’re actually fortunate we set to work with these nice administrators,” Clooney mentioned. “Director and screenplay is what retains you alive.”