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George Clooney and Brad Pitt recently sat down for a feature interview to promote their upcoming action comedy Wolfs and the 63-year-old Academy Award-winning Clooney was in top “I don’t give a F” form.
Over the course of the interview, George Clooney took shots at directors such as Quentin Tarantino and David O. Russell, whom he worked with in the 1990s — Clooney starred alongside Tarantino in From Dusk Till Dawn in 1996 and headlined Russell’s Three Kings in 1999.
Clooney’s ire towards Tarantino comes from the fact that the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood filmmaker allegedly said that Clooney is no longer a movie star.
“Quentin said some s— about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” Clooney told GQ.
“He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about [Brad Pitt], and somebody else, and then this guy goes, ‘Well, what about George?’ He goes, he’s not a movie star. 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 f—— career.’ So now I’m like, all right, dude f— off. I don’t mind giving him s—.”
As for Russell, who has developed a reputation for being abusive to cast and crew members on set, Clooney’s feelings about him are far less complicated as he called him a “miserable f—.” Clooney said that with age and experience came the realization that he does not want people like that in his life.
“The older you get, time allotment is very different. Five months out of your life is a lot. And so it’s not just like, ‘Oh, I’m going to go do a really good film, like Three Kings, and I’m going to have a miserable f— like David O. Russell making my life hell. Making every person in the crew’s life hell.’ It’s not worth it. Not at this point in my life. Just to have a good product.”
Wolfs, which has already been greenlit for a sequel, will hit AppleTV+ on Friday, September 27.