George Clooney has blasted his Three Kings director David O Russell , saying he made “my life hell” and “every person on the crew’s life hell.” Clooney, 63, worked with American Hustle director Russell on the 1999 war heist comedy Three Kings . In a new interview with GQ , Clooney reflected on how getting older has led him to prioritize different things in life, and said he now only wants to work with “people who like what they do.
” “The older you get, time allotment is very different,” Clooney continued. “Five months out of your life is a lot. And so it’s not just like, ‘Oh, I’m going to go do a really good film, like Three Kings, and I’m going to have a miserable f*** like David O Russell making my life hell.
Making every person in the crew’s life hell.’ “It’s not worth it,” he added. “Not at this point in my life.
Just to have a good product.” Clooney and Russell’s feud on the set of Three Kings has long been public knowledge. For The Independent ’s list of 22 actors who didn’t get on with their directors , Adam White wrote: “Clooney confronted the filmmaker after he ‘went nuts on an extra’, according to the actor.
“‘I would not stand for him humiliating and yelling and screaming at crew members, who weren’t allowed to defend themselves,’ Clooney said in 2003. ‘I don’t believe in it, and it makes me crazy. So my job was then to humiliate the people who were doing the humiliating.
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