George Clooney has some choice words for Quentin Tarantino, who said he doesn't think Clooney is a movie star
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George Clooney has a profanity-laced bone to pick with director Quentin Tarantino.
George Clooney has a profanity-laced bone to pick with director Quentin Tarantino.
“Quentin said some s—t about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” Clooney said in an interview with GQ published on Tuesday, which he did alongside his “Wolfs” costar Brad Pitt.
Clooney went on to say that Tarantino “did some interview where he was naming movie stars” and that when Clooney’s name came up, the “Pulp Fiction” director said, in his opinion, that Clooney is “not a movie star.”
“All right, dude, f—k off,” Clooney playfully continued, with Pitt – a frequent Tarantino collaborator – laughing in the background. “I don’t mind giving him s—t. He gave me s—t,” Clooney added.
The “Gravity” star is presumably referring to a conversation that Deadline columnist Baz Bamigboye had with Tarantino at the Cannes Film Festival, which the journalist recalled in a 2023 column.
Tarantino and Bamigboye were discussing who Tarantino considered to be a movie star, with actors like Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron and Denzel Washington, among others, named as people who fit the bill.
But when it came to Clooney, Tarantino said, “Well, it’s been a long while since I think George Clooney has drawn anybody to an audience… When was his last hit where he drew an audience?”
