George Clooney Flames Quentin Tarantino For Trashing His Movie Career: “I’m A Little Irritated”
There were once brothers in arms in From Dusk Till Dawn, but now George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino appear to be at each other’s throats.
In an interview with GQ to mark his upcoming Apple TV+ movie Wolfs, Clooney revealed that he is irritated with Tarantino, his former co-star and director of Pulp Fiction.
Clooney is under the impression that Tarantino trash-talked his movie career in a recent interview, though Deadline could not immediately locate the comments from the director.
Clooney was asked by GQ if he felt competitive with Brad Pitt about the fact that Pitt had appeared in Tarantino movies, including Inglourious Basterds.
Clooney replied: “Quentin said some s*** 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 you, and somebody else, and then this guy 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.’ And I was like, ‘Since the millennium? That’s kind of my whole f****** career.’
He added: “So now I’m like, all right, dude, f*** off. I don’t mind giving him s***. He gave me s***.”
Pitt, who was also being interviewed by GQ, evidently found Clooney’s comments amusing. The magazine quoted Pitt laughing and ribbing Clooney about Tarantino’s “really good” performance in From Dusk Till Dawn.
Clips of Clooney talking about From Dusk Till Dawn went viral last year after he did an impression of Tarantino. The 1996 horror was written by Tarantino and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Tarantino had a hand in casting Clooney, suggesting that they look alike.
