George Clooney advised The Sunday Instances that he’s nonetheless upset about shedding the function of J.D. in Ridley Scott’s 1991 movie “Thelma & Louise” to longtime good friend and collaborator Brad Pitt.
“I bought to the ultimate check for a task in ‘Thelma & Louise.’ And, motherfucker, Brad bought 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 By way of It,” “Interview with the Vampire,” “Se7en” and “12 Monkeys.”
The “Jay Kelly” star added that Pitt nonetheless taunts him about profitable the “Thelma and Louise” function.
“Oh yeah, he nonetheless offers me shit,” he stated. “However, in fact, once I noticed it, I used to be, like, effectively, 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 title 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 yr later, Clooney landed the movie that cemented his main man standing: Steven Soderbergh’s 1998 thriller “Out of Sight.”
