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George Clooney has acquired a reputation as one of the The most beautiful players in Hollywood , but he even appears the affable star of Er And Ocean's Eleven has its limits. Almost 25 years ago, and before he was himself a director, Clooney engaged in a cries match With an Oscar -winning filmmaker David O. Russell On the set of the 1999 Iraq war drama in Iraq Three kings - And to hear the actor say, the director wanted to intensify things in a physical fight. Continue to read to learn what has made the mega-star so heated, and what Clooney feels about dust today.

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At time Three king Production, David O. Russell was best known as the author behind a pair of twisted independent tubes - black comedy Spanking on the monkey , released in 1994 and 1996 Disaster , a dark and funny update of the comedy formula formula. Although these bizarre films were not exactly pre-pre-for the ability of the writer / director to lead a war film, Clooney was sold on the project as soon as he read the script and became determined to win a role.

"" David Russell wrote such a good script As I have never read, "said Clooney Playboy in June 2000. "I fought to get it. He wanted many other actors before me. They went to Mel [Gibson] and at [Nicolas Cage . I wanted to work on this film. David is in many ways a genius, even if I learned that he is not a genius with regard to the skills of people. ""

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As brilliant as Clooney found Russell's work, he did not like the director's style of work too much - in particular, his trend reported to explode angry with the actors and crew members who work ostensibly to help him to achieve his artistic vision.

"He shouted and shouted on people all day, from the first day," said Clooney Playboy . "[Russell often shouted to me] and someone daily."

As told in an article in Vulture Russell's bad behavior of poor behavior , Clooney has taken a particular problem with the treatment by the director of the crew members below the line which may not have been able to defend himself as easily as the leading man of the film.

He also declared to the point of sale that Russell "was going after" a camera car driver that Clooney had known in high school, and "shouted to a script supervisor and made him cry. Two times, the actor was invited to defend the alleged victims of Russell. " I am said [Russell]: "You can shout and shout and even shoot [the driver of the camera of the camera], but what you cannot do is humiliate it in front of people. Not on my set, if I said: " Michael Clayton Recalled star.

After the incident with the script supervisor, Clooney even wrote a letter to the director, saying "I think you are a good director. Do not have a set like this one. I don't like it and I Don't work well like that. "

According to Clooney, his star status did not prevent him from becoming a target of Russell's anger. Things were really heated when the production began to run late and the director had trouble capturing a scene involving a group of real army soldiers who served as extras in a scene in which they were all supposed to Fight against the character of Clooney.

"David wanted one of the extras to grasp me and throw me away," Clooney told Playboy . "This kid was a little nervous about it, and David approached him and grabbed him. He pushed him on the ground. He kicked him and shouted:" Do you want to be in this film [Expletive]? "" AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

When Clooney tried to intervene and calm the director, he said, Russell began to put him in battle, finally hit him with the head and catch him by the throat. At that time, Clooney "went crazy," he recalls. "I got it near my throat. I was going to kill him. Killing him. Finally, he apologized, but I moved away."

After the explosion, production continued, with the director on a little better behavior, according to The Star.

"David in a way made the pout through the rest of the shooting and we finished the film, but it was really, without exception, the worst experience of my life," said Clooney.

Despite the drama, Three kings was completed and released in the summer of 1999 in decent box office feedback ( 107 million dollars , more than double its budget) and more acclaimed . However, a year later, Clooney was not too eager to connect to another David O. Russell project. When Playboy asked him for the possibility, he simply replied: "Life is too short".

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True to his word, Clooney has no longer worked with Russell in the past 24 years - even after the director has been acclaimed and several Oscar nominations for subsequent films, especially Cabric for money in money And American jostling . However, he revealed years ago that he made peace with the director .

"There was a time when I just told him, will it continue forever? We have to shake hands and let go," Clooney told Showbiz411 in 2014. "We put it behind us . And it's great. "

This does not mean Russell who has become less combative with his collaborators. Rumors of altercations on the set have prevented him since - sometimes with video evidence, like when A tape disclosed from his cries match with the actor Lily Tomlin On the shooting of 2004 I heart Huckabes become viral .

Asked what he felt the incidents during a round table discussion with The Hollywood Reporter In 2010, Russell was a conciliatory. "" They are terribly embarrassing ", He said." These are my worst moments and they make me be more vigilant to never repeat such a thing. ""

Even again, he would have do Amy Adams cry On the 2013 set American jostling And shout Jennifer Lawrence During the 2015 production Joy . More disturbing, in 2011, his 19 -year -old niece the accused of sexual fault . He denied any reprehensible act and was not accused of any crime.

Russell's most recent film, 2022 Amsterdam , with Christian And Margot Robbie , was a critical and commercial flop, Lose the studio nearly $ 100 million , depending on the deadline.

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