George Clooney has branded director David O. Russell a “miserable fuck”.
The pair worked together in 1999, when Clooney starred in the Russell-directed movie Three Kings. Shortly afterwards, the actor gave an interview to Playboy where he alleged Russel screamed at people “all day, from day one” and claimed making the film was “truly, without exception, the worst experience of my life.”
Now, Clooney has opened up further on his time filming Three Kings in a joint interview with Brad Pitt to GQ. The pair are soon to be the leads in upcoming action-comedy film Wolfs.
Speaking to GQ, Clooney discussed how he selects his projects nowadays, beginning: “The older you get, time allotment is very different. Five months out of your life is a lot.”
He went on to call Russell a “miserable fuck”, claiming he was “making my life hell. Making every person in the crew’s life hell.” Clooney added that it was “not worth it” to make a “good film” like Three Kings with Russell at the helm: “Not at this point in my life. Just to have a good product.”
George Clooney. CREDIT: David Livingston/WireImage
Clooney made similar remarks about Batman in December last year, saying there’s “not enough drugs in the world” to make him play the character again. The actor played Batman in the widely-derided 1997 film Batman & Robin from director Joel Schumacher, and made a brief cameo opposite Ezra Miller in The Flash.
“There was such a clamour for me to come back as Batman, as you know,” Clooney joked. “Why are you making that face? I saw that face.
“I actually said, ‘Where are my rubber nipples?’ And they were like, ‘Can we do it without the rubber nipples?’ I was like, ‘Well, it’s not really my Batman, is it?’”
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