George Clooney Got "Irritated" With Quentin Tarantino: "Dude, F*** Off" | THR News Video
George Clooney says he's "a little irritated" with Quentin Tarantino right now. The veteran actor is taking issue with the famed director's apparent comments about his celebrity status. In a new GQ interview with Clooney and his upcoming 'Wolfs' co-star Brad Pitt, the subject of Tarantino came up. Clooney said, "Quentin said some **** about me recently, so I'm a little irritated by him. He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about [Pitt] and somebody else, and then this [interviewer] 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.'"
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00:00George Clooney says he's a little irritated with Quentin Tarantino right now.
00:05The veteran actor is taking issue with the famed director's apparent comments about
00:08his celebrity status.
00:10In a new GQ interview with Clooney and his upcoming Wolves co-star Brad Pitt, the subject
00:14of Tarantino came up.
00:16Clooney said,
00:17"[Quentin said some, about me, recently, so I'm a little irritated by him.
00:21He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about Pitt
00:25and somebody else, and then this interviewer goes, well, what about George?
00:29He goes, he's not a movie star, and then he literally said something like, name me
00:33a movie since the millennium."
00:34Clooney continued,
00:35"'And I was like, since the millennium?
00:37That's kind of my whole career.
00:39So now I'm like, alright dude, off.
00:42I don't mind giving him... he gave me.
00:45But no, look, we're really lucky we got to work with these great directors.
00:49Director and screenplay is what keeps you alive."
00:51It wasn't immediately apparent which Tarantino interview Clooney was quoting, though the
00:55director has made headlines for calling Marvel actors, quote, "'not real movie stars' in
00:59the past."
01:00Clooney co-starred with Tarantino in the director's 1996 crime-drama-horror mash-up From Dusk
01:05Till Dawn, while Pitt has appeared in a couple Tarantino films, including 2019's Once Upon
01:10a Time in Hollywood.
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