The story revolves around Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and company teaching casino mogul Willy Bank (Al Pacino) a lesson in humility and honor. A man's word is supposed to be bond but Bank only cared about manipulating people for his own ends. George Clooney has revealed the hilarious prank that Brad Pitt pulled on him when they were filming Ocean's 12 in Italy. Speaking to GQ, Clooney recalled how Pitt made him out to be a diva while they were shooting the 2004 film in Lake Como where Clooney lives.
Age is just a number in Hollywood with some close pairings having wide age gaps, from Hugh Jackman and Deborah Lee Furness to George and Amal Clooney..
Age is just a number in Hollywood with some close pairings having wide age gaps, from Hugh Jackman and Deborah Lee Furness to George and Amal Clooney.
George Clooney was pranked by Brad Pitt. Picture: AFP/Valery/HacheSource:AFP
George Clooney has revealed the hilarious prank that Brad Pitt pulled on him when they were filming Ocean's 12 in Italy.
Speaking to GQ, Clooney recalled how Pitt made him out to be a diva while they were shooting the 2004 film in Lake Como where Clooney lives.
'Brad sent out a memo to all the people in the town – my town! I've lived there for years – but he had it posted on telephone poles. It said, ‘The movie is coming to town, and please only address George Clooney as Mr Clooney, and his character's name is Danny Ocean, and don't look him right in the eyes.''
The local press fell for the prank, resulting in some negative headlines for Clooney.
'The papers were like, ‘George Clooney is Il Divo!' It was a horrible story,' Clooney laughed.
Brad Pitt and George Clooney in 2008.Source:News Limited
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Age is just a number in Hollywood with some close pairings having wide age gaps, from Hugh Jackman and Deborah Lee Furness to George and Amal Clooney.
George Clooney was pranked by Brad Pitt. Picture: AFP/Valery/HacheSource:AFP
George Clooney has revealed the hilarious prank that Brad Pitt pulled on him when they were filming Ocean's 12 in Italy.
Speaking to GQ, Clooney recalled how Pitt made him out to be a diva while they were shooting the 2004 film in Lake Como where Clooney lives.
'Brad sent out a memo to all the people in the town – my town! I've lived there for years – but he had it posted on telephone poles. It said, ‘The movie is coming to town, and please only address George Clooney as Mr Clooney, and his character's name is Danny Ocean, and don't look him right in the eyes.''
The local press fell for the prank, resulting in some negative headlines for Clooney.
'The papers were like, ‘George Clooney is Il Divo!' It was a horrible story,' Clooney laughed.
Brad Pitt and George Clooney in 2008.Source:News Limited
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He was on the receiving end on this occasion, but usually it's Clooney who pulls the pranks on his co-stars.
One of his best was on Matt Damon when they were filming The Monuments Men. Clooney told the wardrobe department to take in the waist of Damon's pants every couple of days, tricking the actor into thinking he was putting on weight.
'It was just funny because he showed up on the set, Matt looks great,' Clooney told E! News. 'He shows up on the set, he's like ‘I wanna lose 15 pounds (6kg) on this movie.'
George Clooney and Matt Damon in The Monuments Men.Source:Supplied
'So he's dieting and exercising. He would go away for a week and I would just have the wardrobe people take in his wardrobe half an inch. By the end, he's just like eating a grape but his pants are getting tighter,' Clooney laughed.
Damon didn't find out he'd been pranked until after the movie finished shooting. Best tips to win slot machines without.
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George Clooney bet Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle $10,000 to spend the night in a haunted house on Lake Como, but they couldn't do it
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Don Cheadle starred in the 'Ocean's' movie series together. Kurt Krieger/Corbis via Getty Images/GQ YouTube/Amy Sussman/Getty Images
- George Clooney told GQ that he once bet Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle $10,000 to stay in a haunted house in Lake Como while they were shooting 'Ocean's 12.'
- Clooney and his costars were staying in his house in Lake Como, when Clooney and his friend made up that the empty house across the lake was haunted.
- Clooney said: 'We give $10,000 to any guy who could spend a night in the haunted house with just a candle and a bottle of wine.'
- Pitt and Cheadle took the bet, but they couldn't do it: 'We get a call and they're like 'f--- that, get us out of this house!'
George Clooney once bet his 'Ocean's 12' costars Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle $10,000 to stay in a haunted house in Lake Como overnight, but they couldn't do it.
Clooney recalled the story during a video with GQ in which he revisited his most iconic movie roles, including the 'Ocean's' movies, the second of which they shot parts of in Lake Como, Italy.
'We were all staying at my house in Lake Como, and there was a house across the lake. It was empty. There was an Italian book about it and we'd made up a story about how haunted it was,' Clooney said.
George Clooney's Lake Como villa. Max Rossi/Reuters
Clooney, who played the titular Danny Ocean in the movie series, told GQ that his Italian friend Giovanni pretended to read a story about a man who used to kill people in the now-abandoned house and then throw them into the lake. Clooney and Giovanni managed to talk everybody into 'how dangerous this house was.'
The Oscar-nominated actor then went on a late-night trip with three of his costars: Pitt, Cheadle, and Matt Damon, all of whom reprised their roles from 'Ocean's 11.'
'At 3 in the morning, we get a ladder and we put it on this pontoon boat and Matt and Don and Brad and I took the boat across the water, took the ladder up and climbed in the house. The first thing we saw was this statue of a snake eating a woman's head.'
Clooney continued: 'We came down to the conclusion: we give $10,000 to any guy who could spend a night in the haunted house with just a candle and a bottle of wine. You got a candle, you got six matches, and you got a bottle of wine.'
Brad Pitt and George Clooney in 'Ocean's 12.' Warner Bros.
It was Pitt and Cheadle who ended up taking the bet and staying in the supposedly haunted house, while Clooney and Damon went back to the boat and drove out to the middle of the lake to see how long their costars could last.