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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