George Clooney has slammed Quentin Tarantino for past comments that dismiss his status as a bona fide Hollywood movie star.
The 63-year-old film veteran said, GQ Ahead of the release of his new movie, he and his longtime friend and co-star Brad Pitt Wolf When he gave his honest opinion about Hollywood movie stars.
As Variety magazine NotesClooney criticized Quentin Tarantino for steering Pitt to an Oscar win. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood And recently, he allegedly criticized Clooney for claiming he isn’t yet a movie star.
Clooney and Tarantino co-starred in the 1996 film. From dusk to dawn. Clooney said:
I’m a little annoyed with Quentin because he said some bad things about me recently. In an interview he named movie stars: [Brad]and I was talking to somebody else, and this guy said, “Well, what about George?” I said he’s not a movie star. And he literally said, “Name a movie after the millennium.” And I said, “After the millennium? That’s my whole career.”
So now I’m like, ok, man, get lost. You can complain to him.
The two later agreed that Hollywood isn’t producing the movie stars it once did.
“Well, they’re not developing stars the way the old studio system was,” Clooney said of Hollywood’s dearth of A-listers.
FILE/American actors George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino on the set of From Dusk Till Dawn, directed and produced by Robert Rodriguez. (Dimension Films/Miramax/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)
“We were at the end of the days when you worked for a studio and made three or four movies and had some degree of planning. But I don’t think that’s necessarily the case now. So it’s harder to rely on a star to sell something.”
