The director George Clooney thinks is terrible to work with

In 1999, George Clooney was one of the protagonists of Three Kings with your colleague Mark Wahlberg and the rapper Ice Cube. In the film, the trio play American soldiers searching for hidden treasure in the desert.

The work was well received. Even so, Clooney does not have good memories of work.

The reason? The star didn’t get along well with the film’s director, David O. Russell. No wonder he considers the filmmaker a terrible person to work with.

In conversation with the British version of the magazine GQgranted to the friend Brad Pitt to promote the film wolves, George Clooney He stated that he had become increasingly selective with his work. The idea is to avoid stress experienced during film recordings. Three Kings.

He stated:

As you get older, your time allocation is very different. Five months of your life is a long time and it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’m going to make a really good movie, like Three Kings‘, and then, having a wretch like David O. Russell turning my life into hell. Having turned the lives of each person on the team into hell.”

In the artist’s opinion, it is not worth subjecting yourself to this type of situation. Even more so at 63 years of age and with more than four decades of career.

It’s not worth it, not at this point in my life. It really needs to be a good product.”

The fight between George Clooney and David O. Russell

During another interview, now Playboyin the year 2000, George Clooney detailed one of his disagreements with David O. Russell. At one point during filming, the actor said he noticed the director shouting at the entire cast and production team.

Clooneythen, revealed that he had tried to talk to the filmmaker to calm things down. However, it was of no use — and it was still up to him.

I was trying to make things work, so I walked over and put my arm around him. He said: ‘Davidthis is a great day. But you can’t push or humiliate people who can’t defend themselves.’ He turned to me and stated, ‘Why don’t you worry about your damn acting? You’re being a jerk. Do you want to hit me? Do you want to hit me? Come on, you weakling, hit me.”

The situation began to come to a head. The artist recalls:

He looked at him and seemed to be out of his mind. Then he placed his head on mine. He told me: ‘hit me, you idiot, hit me’. That’s when he grabbed me by the neck and I went crazy. I also grabbed him by the neck. I wanted to kill him. Finally, he apologized, but I went to another corner.”

George made it clear that this was the worst experience of his professional life. Furthermore, he ruled out any chance of working with the filmmaker again.

In fact, David O. Russell He became known in the cinema world for being a difficult person to deal with. Lily Tomlin and Amy Adams they would also have been targets of the director’s behavior. Despite these controversies, the filmmaker continued to work in the segment. amsterdam (2022) is his most recent work.

Collaborated: Augusto Ikeda.