George Clooney slammed Quentin Tarantino, telling the legendary director to “f--k off” for comments he allegedly made criticizing Clooney’s film career.
Clooney sat for a new interview with GQ alongside his Wolfs co-star Brad Pitt , whom has also collaborated with Tarantino on two of the director’s most critically acclaimed projects. He starred in both Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019), the latter of which won Pitt his first Oscar.
When the outlet asked Clooney if he felt “competitive” about Pitt's collaboration with Tarantino, the Ocean’s Eleven star asserted he doesn’t feel he’s missing out.
“Quentin said some s--t about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” Clooney explained. “He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about [Pitt], and somebody else, and then [the interviewer] goes, ‘Well, what about George?’ [Tarantino] goes, ‘He’s not a movie star.’ And then he literally said something like, ‘Name me a [good] movie since the millennium.’ And I was like, ‘Since the millennium? That’s kind of my whole f---ing career.’”
At this point, GQ noted, Pitt began to laugh.
“So now I’m like, all right, dude, f--k off,” Clooney concluded. “I don’t mind giving him s--t. He gave me s--t.”
It’s unclear as to which Tarantino interview Clooney is referring. Neither GQ nor any other outlets have surfaced remarks from the director which mirror Clooney’s recollection. The two have worked together once, albeit not in a film Tarantino directed. They played brothers in From Dusk til Dawn , for which Tarantino wrote the screenplay before handing over directing duties to Robert Rodriguez.
When Clooney mentioned this to GQ , Pitt responded of Tarantino’s performance, “He was pretty good in it, too.”
“He was OK in it,” Clooney shot back.
If Tarantino said anything against Clooney, he was perhaps feeling slighted over a viral 2023 video in which the actor does a dead-on, not particularly flattering impersonation of the director while recalling an interview they did to promote From Dusk til Dawn . In the clip, Clooney recalls that Tarantino cast them as brothers in Rodriguez’s film because he felt they looked similar in real life. At this, Clooney distorts his face and says, “What?!”
Later in the GQ interview, Clooney seemingly defended his movie star status from Tarantino and other perceived critics. “There’s a narrative that people love to do with me, which is like, I’m always just playing a version of me,” Clooney explained. “And I always go, ‘Well, all right, but I don’t know that many people are doing O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Michael Clayton .’”
Clooney continued: “I think part of the reason I’m allowed to do that is I had so many genres of films that I was in that weren’t successful. If you’re not wildly successful at action films, then no one’s asking you to do more action films. And the same thing with sort of everything. So part of life for me was always, the lack of massive success allowed me to do other things and try new things.”
Wolfs premieres in theaters nationwide on Sept. 20.
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