George Clooney Names 2 Actors Who Told Him To 'F**k Right Off' Over 'Ocean's 11'

George Clooney revealed that Mark Wahlberg and Johnny Depp are amongst actors who now “remorse” not becoming a member of the forged of Steven Soderbergh’s 2001 heist comedy “Ocean’s Eleven.”

Clooney — who starred within the movie alongside the likes of Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia and Julia Roberts — joined Soderbergh at TCM Movie Pageant, the place he opened up in regards to the two passing on roles within the movie, Leisure Weekly reported.

“Folks actually needed to work with Steven,” mentioned Clooney, who referred to the filmmaker’s prior motion pictures “Erin Brockovich” and “Visitors.”

“Some very well-known individuals instructed us to fuck proper off. We went to their houses and sat with them.”

“Mark Wahlberg’s one among ’em. He mentioned it,” replied TCM host Ben Mankiewicz.

“Johnny Depp,” Clooney continued. “There have been others. The brothers [Luke and] Owen Wilson. Oh, they remorse it now, yeah, ‘Oh I remorse it.’ I remorse doing fucking ‘Batman.’”

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Wahlberg dropped out of the movie “because of scheduling conflicts,” ABC Information reported on the time. Wahlberg, who was set to play Linus Caldwell within the film, instructed Zoo At present journal again in 2008 that it was “effectively value” skipping the mission as a result of “the second sucked.”

“Folks inform George Clooney it’s nice, however everyone knows it sucked,” Wahlberg mentioned.

“I made two dangerous motion pictures as an alternative — ‘Planet Of The Apes’ and ‘The Reality About Charlie’ — however doing that was higher than sitting with Brad and George, telling the press how nice all people is! ‘We had been in Europe, George was humorous, then we had some wine ...’ — that’s not for me. I do love these guys, however I needed to step out by myself.”

Clooney instructed E! Information in 2012 that he and Soderbergh sat down with Depp forward of the movie, though the actor handed on the half because it “was for a Brit and he didn’t need to do it.”

The roles of the Malloy twins had been anticipated to go to Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson, however the two had been already tasked to work on Wes Anderson’s “The Royal Tenenbaums,” Selection reported in 2000.