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George Clooney apparently has a bone to pick with Quentin Tarantino.
In an exclusive GQ cover story published Tuesday in which the Oscar winner was interviewed by frequent costar and longtime friend Brad Pitt, the conversation 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 told 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 decades, couldn’t help but laugh at the alleged diss. The duo have costarred in films including “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 told Pitt about Tarantino. “He gave me shit.”
However, it’s unclear if Tarantino truly made those remarks about Clooney. HuffPost could not find evidence of such an interview, and Clooney is known for being a bit of a prankster. HuffPost has reached out to a representative of Tarantino for comment.
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In the same interview, Clooney also took a shot at Tarantino’s acting chops after Pitt said the director was “pretty good” in the 1998 film “From Dusk Till Dawn” — in which Clooney and Tarantino played brothers.
“He was okay in it,” Clooney responded.
Tarantino does seem to have specific criteria for what makes a movie star.
“You have all these actors who have become famous playing these characters,” he said on the “2 Bears, 1 Cave” podcast in 2022 about the “Marvel-ization” of modern cinema. “But they’re not movie stars — Captain America is the star. Thor is the star.”
Tarantino’s comment spurred “Thor” star Chris Hemsworth to react at the time, but Clooney actually echoed the director’s general point about the end of Hollywood’s movie star era.
“Well, they haven’t developed stars the way the studio system used to,” he told 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.”