George Clooney has said he never wants to work with a “pathetic bastard” like Three Kings director David O'Russell again.
At some point in your life — hopefully sooner rather than later — you realize that working with (or for) gratuitously mean people just isn't worth it. Life is short. That's something George Clooney all too well known after his famous clash with director David O. Russell on the set Three Kings. In recent GQ In the lead story, Clooney said he has no plans to repeat the experience anytime soon.
«The older you get, the more time is distributed. Five months of your life is a lot,“Clooney said.And it's not just, “Oh, I'm going to make a really good movie or something.” Three kings, and I'm gonna have a miserable fuck like David O'Russell, making my life hell. Making everyone's life hell on the team. It's not worth it. Not at this point in my life. Just to get a good product.«
Russell often had angry outbursts on set. Three Kingsand Clooney regularly defended extras and crew members. Russell reportedly even ignored an extra who was having an epileptic seizure. Clooney and Russell eventually came to blows after Clooney saw Russell allegedly assault an extra. Clooney later called the production “worst experience of my life.“That wasn't the end of Russell's abuse towards the cast and crew, as he verbally abused Lily Tomlin on set I'm a hardcore hackermade Amy Adams' life “sheer hell“during production American Hustleand even reportedly attacked Christopher Nolan at a Hollywood party.
In the same interview, Clooney also said: a few words for Quentin Tarantino, who has reportedly criticized the actor's career.Quentin said something nasty about me recently, so he's been annoying me a little,“Clooney said.He did some interview where he was listing movie stars, and he was talking about you and somebody else, and then this guy goes, “Well, what about George?” He says, he's not a movie star. And then he literally said something like, “Name me a movie from the turn of the millennium.” And I was like, “Since the beginning of the millennium? “That's my whole damn career.”«