George Clooney Is Infamous For Set Pranks, But Matt Damon Shared How Brad Pitt’s Fast One Was The ‘Maddest’ He’d Ever Seen Him
George Clooney is one of the most notorious pranksters in Hollywood. The actor is known for loving a good joke and pulling a good one over his pals and co-workers now and then while on set. But it’s not all fun and games when the prankster becomes the prankee. Matt Damon recently opened up about a practical joke Brad Pitt once played on their pal, and why the result made Clooney the “maddest” they’d ever seen him.
Matt Damon sat down with the titular host of CNN’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace (which is available to stream with a Max subscription). He was asked about the Michael Clayton star’s infamous pranking habit and whether it’s true that Clooney once took in Damon’s costume daily to convince his co-star that he was gaining weight. Funny enough, the Oppenheimer actor confirmed that the story is valid. After doing so, he also shared an anecdote about Brad Pitt giving the leading man a taste of his own medicine amid production on one of the Ocean’s movies:
On Ocean’s 12, Brad Pitt sent out letters in Italian to the Italian crew. Now, George [Clooney] had just bought this place in Lake Como. He was very, very proud to be living in Italy a lot of the time, loves the country. He was like Mr. Italy, everybody loved George there. And Brad put this letter out, as if it was from George, or from George’s people, which said, ‘Please understand you’re working with Mr. Clooney. You may not look him in the eye at any time. You will not refer to him as George. You may call him only Mr. Clooney or Mr. Ocean.’
