‘Irritated’ George Clooney calls out Quentin Tarantino for career diss: ‘F**k off’

An “irritated” George Clooney has hit back at an A-list director who unexpectedly criticised his career.

George Clooney has said he is “a little irritated” by Quentin Tarantino after the director claimed the actor was “not a movie star”.

“Quentin said some s**t about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” the Ocean’s Eleven star said in a GQ cover interview alongside Brad Pitt, reports The New York Post’s Page Six.

“He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about [Brad Pitt] and somebody else, and then this [interviewer] goes, ‘Well, what about George?’ He goes, ‘He’s not a movie star.’”

Clooney admitted he was “irritated”.

Quentin Tarantino. Picture: Tolga Akmen/AFP

Clooney, 63, claimed Tarantino, 61, then asked the interviewer to name one of the Ticket to Paradise star’s movies “‘since the millennium”.

“And I was like, ‘Since the millennium?‘ That’s kind of my whole f**king career,” Clooney continued.

“So now I’m like, all right, dude, f**k off. I don’t mind giving him s**t. He gave me s**t. But no, look, we’re really lucky we got to work with these great directors. Director and screenplay is what keeps you alive.”

Page Six has reached out to a spokesman for Tarantino for comment but did not immediately hear back.

Clooney starred alongside the Oscar-winning film director in Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 vampire thriller From Dusk ‘Till Dawn.

They both appeared in From Dusk Till Dawn.

In the 2000s, however, the two-time Academy Award winner starred in several films, including Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve, The Perfect Storm, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and many more.

Clooney has now been acting for more than 40 years — a number that has surprised him.

“I remember I talked to [Matt] Damon about this 25 years ago, when he first hit with his movie and won the Oscar,” he told GQ.

“I was like, ‘Just know that if you get a 10-year career, playing at that level, it’s an absolute jackpot.’ Nobody sustains it much longer than that. So, yeah, I’m surprised that I still have the work.”

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission.