Brad Pitt Role George Clooney Still Can’t Let Go

George Clooney has revealed he’s still annoyed that Brad Pitt beat him to a 1990s movie role.

The Hollywood stars were both on the cusp of film stardom in the late 1980s and would often audition for the same roles, but Pitt hit the big time first after scoring a role in Thelma & Louise.

Clooney, who is close friends with Pitt, has now admitted to feeling frustrated as he got to the final test for a role in Ridley Scott’s 1991 drama starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis.

“So, I was in TV,” he told The Times. “I was making a good living, but back then, actors would say, ‘Well, I’m a film actor – I just happen to be doing TV. And I got to the final test for a role in Thelma & Louise. And, motherf***er, Brad got it.”

Clooney, who recently starred in Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, said he didn’t watch Thelma & Louise for years because he was annoyed.

“The part launched his career in film,” the actor continued. “He was doing sitcoms and crap before, so when it was the thing that could’ve launched me? F***!”

According to Clooney, his Ocean’s Eleven co-star Pitt still teases him about it.

“He gives me s***. But, of course, when I saw it, I was, like, well, it had to be that guy.”

In the film, Pitt played JD, a charming drifter who briefly seduces Thelma (Davis) and later robs her. The actor recently admitted to feeling starstruck upon meeting the film’s lead stars, but said he ‘got over it quickly.”