George Clooney informed The Sunday Times that he’s nonetheless upset about dropping the function of J.D. in Ridley Scott’s 1991 movie “Thelma & Louise” to longtime pal and collaborator Brad Pitt.
“I acquired to the ultimate check for a job in ‘Thelma & Louise.’ And, motherfucker, Brad acquired it,” Clooney stated. “I didn’t watch ‘Thelma & Louise’ for years, as a result of I used to be aggravated. The half launched his profession in movie. He was doing sitcoms and crap earlier than, so when it was the factor that would’ve launched me? Fuck!”
Within the movie, J.D. is a rugged vagabond who sparks a fleeting romance with Thelma (Geena Davis). As famous by Clooney, the movie cemented Pitt as a bankable film star. Within the years following, Pitt led movies like “A River Runs Via It,” “Interview with the Vampire,” “Se7en” and “12 Monkeys.”
The “Jay Kelly” star added that Pitt nonetheless taunts him about successful the “Thelma and Louise” function.
“Oh yeah, he nonetheless provides me shit,” he stated. “However, in fact, once I noticed it, I used to be, like, nicely, it needed to be that man.”
Clooney needed to wait just a few years after the discharge of “Thelma & Louise” to get his film star break. He turned a family identify taking part in Dr. Doug Ross on “ER” from 1994 to 1999. In 1997, he was forged because the titular Caped Crusader in Joel Schumacher’s “Batman & Robin.” Sadly, that film was critically panned, however a 12 months later, Clooney landed the movie that cemented his main man standing: Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 thriller “Out of Sight.”
