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George Clooney told The Sunday Times<\/a> that he\u2019s still upset about losing the role of J.D. in Ridley Scott\u2019s 1991 film \u201cThelma & Louise\u201d to longtime friend and collaborator Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n \u201cI got to the final test for a role in \u2018Thelma & Louise.\u2019 And, motherfucker, Brad got it,\u201d Clooney said. \u201cI didn\u2019t watch \u2018Thelma & Louise\u2019 for years, because I was annoyed. The part launched his career in film. He was doing sitcoms and crap before, so when it was the thing that could\u2019ve launched me? Fuck!\u201d<\/p>\n More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n In the film, J.D. is a rugged vagabond who sparks a fleeting romance with Thelma (Geena Davis). As noted by Clooney, the film cemented Pitt as a bankable movie star. In the years following, Pitt led films like \u201cA River Runs Through It,\u201d \u201cInterview with the Vampire,\u201d \u201cSe7en\u201d and \u201c12 Monkeys.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cJay Kelly\u201d star added that Pitt still taunts him about winning the \u201cThelma and Louise\u201d role.<\/p>\n \u201cOh yeah, he still gives me shit,\u201d he said. \u201cBut, of course, when I saw it, I was, like, well, it had to be that guy.\u201d<\/p>\n Clooney had to wait a few years after the release of \u201cThelma & Louise\u201d to get his movie star break. He became a household name playing Dr. Doug Ross on \u201cER\u201d from 1994 to 1999. In 1997, he was cast as the titular Caped Crusader in Joel Schumacher\u2019s \u201cBatman & Robin.\u201d Unfortunately, that movie was critically panned, but a year later, Clooney landed the film that cemented his leading man status: Steven Soderbergh\u2019s 1998 thriller \u201cOut of Sight.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.aol.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" George Clooney told The Sunday Times that he\u2019s still upset about losing the role of J.D. in Ridley Scott\u2019s 1991 film \u201cThelma & Louise\u201d to longtime friend and collaborator Brad Pitt. \u201cI got to the final test for a role in \u2018Thelma & Louise.\u2019 And, motherfucker, Brad got it,\u201d Clooney said. \u201cI didn\u2019t watch \u2018Thelma […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2186798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25825,349165,32720,411450],"class_list":["post-2186797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-brad-pitt","tag-geena-davis","tag-george-clooney","tag-thelma-louise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u2018I-Didnt-Watch-That-Movie-\u2018For-Years.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186799,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186797\/revisions\/2186799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2186798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}