Clooney “Irritated” With Quentin Tarantino: “Dude, F*** Off”
The actor gives his reaction to Tarantino suggesting Clooney is not a real movie star. (Tarantino is right)
Supporting Actor Oscar winner George Clooney (Syriana) is irritated with Quentin Tarantino.
The vet actor, and middling director, is taking issue with the famed director’s comments about his celebrity status.
In a new GQ cover interview, along with his co-star Brad Pitt, the subject of Tarantino came up and Clooney said, “Quentin said some shit 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.’”
“So now I’m like, all right, dude, fuck off. I don’t mind giving him shit. He gave me shit. But no, look, we’re really lucky we got to work with these great directors. Director and screenplay is what keeps you alive.”
Clooney’s career stretches back to the early 1980s. But it’s also true that he’s had considerable success since the turn of the century in movies ranging from 2000’s The Perfect Storm to the Oceans Eleven trilogy (which started in 2001) to 2013’s Gravity to 2016’s Hail Caesar!
Pitt said that Tarantino “was pretty good” as an actor in Dusk, to which Clooney countered, “He was okay in it.” Pitt then added, “There’s a scene, I’m blanking on it. But he’s really good.”
It also wasn’t immediately apparent which Tarantino interview Clooney was quoting, though the director made headlines from calling Marvel actors “not real movie stars” in the past, arguing that their comic book icons are the real stars of those films.
“When I first got to the place where I could pick a movie, I took everything that came my way,” he said. “Because I didn’t understand that I was going to be held responsible for the movie. So I get offered Batman & Robin, I call my friends like, ‘I’m going to be Batman!’ You don’t really think it through. And then after I did that for three films, where they didn’t really work, I was like: Oh, I’m going to be held responsible. I need to go back to: good script, good director, if I’m allowed to pick. And that means you have to take money out of the issue. Because remember: When you’re first famous, when somebody offers you a lot of money, you’re like, ‘Fuck, I’ve never been offered money before. I’ve never been offered anything.’”
