George Clooney is "a little irritated” with Quentin Tarantino right now
Turns out, movie stars are invested in all that "no more movie stars" discourse too. Who knew!
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Won’t anyone think of the movie stars? Reports of the death of the topline actor have been coming in fast and furious over the past few years, but according to George Clooney—very arguably a real-life movie star—those reports have been greatly exaggerated. Well, specifically by Quentin Tarantino, whom he’s a little peeved about right now.
“Quentin said some shit about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” Clooney said in a new interview with GQ. “He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about you (Brad Pitt), and somebody else, and then this guy goes, “Well, what about George?” He goes, he’s not a movie star.”
While it’s always fun to witness a “stars, they’re just like us” playground fight amongst Hollywood’s best and brightest like this, to have someone you’d previously worked with devalue your entire life’s work obviously stings. In a way, that’s exactly what Tarantino did. “He literally said something like, ‘Name me a movie since the millennium.’ And I was like, ‘Since the millennium? That’s kind of my whole fucking career,’” Clooney continued. “So now I’m like, all right, dude, fuck off.”