George Clooney has admitted to being irked after Quentin Tarantino made some scathing remarks about his career.
Actor and director Clooney, 63, has built up a reputation for being one of the nicest guys in Hollywood so for him to air beef publicly is rare.
It came after filmmaker Tarantino, 61, declared in a recent interview that Clooney is “not a movie star”.
This didn’t sit right with Clooney, who has two Oscars to his name and once even co-starred with Tarantino in From Dusk ‘til Dawn, including a best supporting actor gong for his role Syriana in 2005.
Opening up about the surprising feud in a joint cover interview with Brad Pitt for the September issue of GQ magazine, Clooney explained: "Quentin said some sh*t about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him.
“He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about [Brad Pitt], and somebody else, and then this guy goes, ‘Well, what about George?’ He goes, ‘He’s not a movie star’.
“And then he literally said something like, 'Name me a movie since the millennium.' And I was like, 'Since the millennium? That’s kind of my whole f***ing career.'"
Elsewhere in the chat, Clooney - who shares two children with his lawyer and human rights activist wife Amal - said he is setting his sights on Broadway.
"I wrote a Broadway play, Good Night, and Good Luck,” he told the publication. “I’m going to be on Broadway. Look, that’s going to be six months of my life in New York... I’m going to give myself time with my kids. I really enjoy driving them to school, and my wife and I are having a really wonderful time. So I don’t want to lose all of that. But this is an opportunity to do something that I have never done before. I’ve never been on Broadway."
