Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s friendship is well known to anyone who knows of the A-list celebrities. The two appeared together in the iconic film series, the Oceans franchise, where they played the roles of Danny Ocean, and Rusty Ryan, respectively. Ironically enough, these two characters played close friends in the franchise itself.
During an interview, the two talked about the filming process of Ocean’s Eleven, when Pitt revealed how Clooney would play pranks on him to such a huge extent that he would constantly be on guard. All of this happened simply because the Oscar-winning actor trusted his friend.
Brad Pitt Became Paranoid Because of George Clooney
During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Brad Pitt and George Clooney were promoting their film, Oceans Eleven. It was here that the Oscar-winning actor was asked if the Batman actor had ever pranked him, something he was notorious for. To this question, Pitt revealed that Clooney had been pranking him to an extreme extent, all of which started because he put some trust in his friend.
“It’s the fact that he did not pull a prank. He’s notorious for pranks. He’ll write pranks out for years and there was much pranking going on.” He went on, “It was brutal.””
The actor revealed that he made the mistake of giving the key to his room, as a form of trust. Misusing this, the Batman actor would enter the room and set up pranks before Pitt managed to make his way in there. This got so bad that the actor, every single time he would enter his room, would spend 45 minutes simply looking for something or the other that could be used as a prank.
George Clooney Made A Bet With Brad Pitt To Get Into A Haunted House
This isn’t the only time that Brad Pitt was pranked by George Clooney as during the shooting of Ocean’s Twelve, the Batman actor made a bet with him to spend the night in a haunted house. The house was an abandoned one across the lake from his villa in Lake Como, Italy, and was most definitely not haunted. The actor, alongside an Italian friend of his, made his co-stars think that the house was inhabited by a murderer who would dump bodies in the lake.
“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,” he went on, “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.” He then added, “It goes by like two or three windows and then we get a call and they’re like ‘f— that, get us out of this house!’ And we came back and pulled them out.”
These stories that were made up to make the house have an ominous feeling worked and eventually Pitt, alongside Don Cheadle were bet $10,000 to spend the night there, while Clooney, alongside Matt Damon, watched from the outside. They did not last very long as they only had a candle and matches as a source of light along with a bottle of wine. In the end, Clooney alongside their co-star, Matt Damon managed to win the bet, after the two called them, begging them to come pick them up.
