George Clooney apparently has a bone to select with Quentin Tarantino.
In an unique GQ cowl story revealed Tuesday wherein the Oscar winner was interviewed by frequent costar and longtime buddy Brad Pitt, the dialog turned to Tarantino — and Clooney shared that he had some beef with the director.
“Quentin said some shit about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” Clooney advised Pitt. “He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about you, and somebody else, and then this guy goes, ‘Well, what about George?’”
“He goes, he’s not a movie star,” he continued. “And then he literally said something like, ‘Name me a movie since the millennium.’ And I was like, ‘Since the millennium?’ That’s kind of my whole fucking career … So now I’m like, all right dude, fuck off.”
Pitt, whose friendship with Clooney spans many years, couldn’t assist however chuckle on the alleged diss. The duo have costarred in movies together with “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001) and its sequels, “Burn After Reading” (2008), and the upcoming action-comedy “Wolfs.”
“I don’t mind giving him shit,” Clooney advised Pitt about Tarantino. “He gave me shit.”
Nonetheless, it’s unclear if Tarantino really made these remarks about Clooney. HuffPost couldn’t discover proof of such an interview, and Clooney is understood for being a little bit of a prankster. HuffPost has reached out to a consultant of Tarantino for remark.
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In the identical interview, Clooney additionally took a shot at Tarantino’s appearing chops after Pitt stated the director was “pretty good” within the 1998 movie “From Dusk Till Dawn” — wherein Clooney and Tarantino performed brothers.
“He was okay in it,” Clooney responded.
Tarantino does appear to have particular standards for what makes a film star.
“You have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters,” he stated on the “2 Bears, 1 Cave” podcast in 2022 in regards to the “Marvel-ization” of contemporary cinema. “But they’re not movie stars — Captain America is the star. Thor is the star.”
Tarantino’s remark spurred “Thor” star Chris Hemsworth to react on the time, however Clooney truly echoed the director’s normal level in regards to the finish of Hollywood’s film star period.
“Well, they haven’t developed stars the way the studio system used to,” he advised Pitt. “We kind of were at the very end of that, where you could work at a studio and do three or four films, and there was some plan to it. And I don’t think that’s necessarily the case anymore.”
