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George Clooney, the veteran actor known for movies likeOcean’s Eleven,Gravity,and,Ticket to Paradiseonce had a fight with director David O. Russell on set. Talking about the unnerving incident that took place on the set ofThree Kings,Clooney had a strained relationship with the veteran director.
TheThree Kingsactor stated that David O. Russell was indeed a great director but was sometimes rude to the cast and crew of his team.
When George Clooney Got His Hands On David O. Russell
During the shooting of a 1990s classic movie titledThree Kings,director David O. Russell wasn’t exactly on good terms with actor George Clooney. It wasn’t long before the actor and director had a feud that left them finishing the movie under awkward talks.
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In an interview with Far Out Magazine, the actor regaled his tale of his fight with the acclaimed director while on the set ofThree Kings.The fight ensued when O. Russell was being rude to an extra while on the set and George Clooney was not able to hold his anger anymore.
“We were trying to get a shot, and then he went berserk. He went nuts on an extra. I would not stand for him humiliating and yelling and screaming at crew members, who weren’t allowed to defend themselves. 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”.
This wasn’t the end of the tale however, asGeorge Clooneyliterally got into a fistfight with the director on the sets of the movie. Following the years that passed, the tale became a laughing point for the people but George Clooney and David O. Russell could not forget what happened.
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George Clooney Had A Fistfight With David O. Russell
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In an interview, theThree Kings producerCharles Roven detailed the insane behavior of the director and the actor on set. Things eventually got so bad that the actor and director found themselves in a boxing match.
“George sees David talking to the extras’ [assistant director], and it looks like he’s yelling at him. But he’s yelling to be heard. And George comes running over and goes, ‘I told you, mother——, if you’re going to pick on somebody, pick on me. And David goes, ‘Why don’t you just fucking remember your lines for once?’ And boom! They grab each other, and they’re tussling. And so I pulled George away. That was it.”
As nightmarish as the production of the movie sounds, theDavid O. RusselldirectedThree Kingsfound worldwide fame as the movie got a whopping 94% on Rotten Tomatoes while earning a pretty massive profit.Three Kingsis available to rent on Apple TV+.
Source:The Things
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
