George Clooney isn’t afraid to get up to mischief – even when it’s at his A-list friends’ expense. The actor, 63, confessed during the Tuesday, September 17, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! that he’s pranked everyone from Tom Cruise to Meryl Streep over the years. During the appearance, Clooney recalled that Kimmel, 56, once gifted him fake stationary which purported to be from Bill Clinton and Brad Pitt , respectively.
Clooney explained that he’d been using the paper to fool friends, writing letters and pretending they were from Clinton and Pitt. “Every actor I know I’ve sent a letter from Bill Clinton,” Clooney confessed. “I try to find their worst film and I tell them, ‘So I was on the plane and [watching your movie].
’” While posing as the former President was one thing, Clooney noted that the Brad Pitt stationary was especially “brutal,” recalling one prank that involved Pitt and Cruise. Clooney confessed to tricking Cruise into believing Pitt was angling to make a sequel to their 1994 movie, Interview with the Vampire. In a further funny twist, Clooney, writing as Pitt, added that he wanted to take over the character Cruise portrayed, Lestat de Lioncourt.
(Pitt, for his part, portrayed vampire Louis de Point du Lac.) “I sent it to Tom Cruise, saying they want to do [ Interview with the Vampire 2 ], but this time Brad wants to play Lestat,” Clooney said with a grin. Kimmel then noted that Pitt had brought up the prank earlier that day, reve.