George Clooney has mentioned among the Hollywood stars that turned down the possibility to star within the hit 2001 heist film, Ocean’s Eleven.
Talking on the 2023 TCM Basic Movie Competition, Clooney and director Steven Soderbergh talked about how sure actors have been in talks to play Linus, the pickpocket position that in the end went to Matt Damon.
Clooney stated: “Steven had simply completed Erin Brockovich and Visitors, and he was nominated for steering each movies. So, folks actually needed to work with Steven.”
Regardless of this, Clooney added that a couple of stars turned down components within the film, which went on to earn $450,728,529 on the worldwide field workplace (roughly £362m).
“They did,” he stated. “Some very well-known folks instructed us to f*** proper off. Mark Wahlberg, Johnny Depp [were both in talks for Linus]. There have been others. They remorse it now. I remorse doing f***ing Batman.”
Clooney – who led the forged of Ocean’s Eleven as Danny Ocean, the ex-con who establishes the heist – usually cracks jokes about his 1997 movie Batman & Robin, which many think about to be the worst superhero film of all time.
In a single interview, he admitted that he gained’t let his spouse Amal watch the movie as he nonetheless needs her to “respect” him.
Final 12 months, Clooney opened up about how his 17-year age hole with with Amal impacts their relationship.
He stated that, as a result of he’s older, he doesn’t give attention to trivial issues that he may need in his youthful days. “Amal needs to color the wall yellow,” he stated.
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“And if I used to be youthful, I really feel like that’s a silly color. And now you simply go, ‘I don’t care. Who cares if a wall’s yellow?’”
Brad Pitt and George Clooney in ‘Ocean’s Eleven’
(Warner Bros Photos)
Clooney can subsequent be seen within the film Wolfs, alongside Brad Pitt and Amy Ryan. The movie follows two lone wolf fixers who’re assigned to the identical job.
He final appeared in romcom Ticket to Paradise with Julia Roberts. Learn The Unbiased’s three-star evaluate right here.
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