George Clooney Sent a Letter to Tom Cruise Posing as Brad Pitt Asking for Interview with the Vampire 2 as a Prank

George Clooney is recalling a fun prank he once pulled on Tom Cruise.

During Clooney’s Tuesday, Sept. 17th appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the actor, 63, said that he is fond of sending people letters that appear to be written by other people, including former president Bill Clinton and as his Wolfs costar Brad Pitt.

“Every actor I know I’ve sent a letter from Bill Clinton,” Clooney explained, noting that host Jimmy Kimmel once gifted him fake stationary from Clinton, 78, and from Pitt, 60. “I try to find their worst film and I tell them, ‘So I was on the plane and [watching your movie].’ “

“The Brad Pitt one was brutal. I sent it to Don Cheadle,” he added. “I sent it to Tom Cruise, saying they want to do [Interview with the Vampire 2], but this time Brad wants to play Lestat. And I sent it to Meryl Streep with a box of CDs for dialect and I said, ‘This guy helped me with my accent in Troy and I think it could really help you.’ “

“Brad this afternoon said that Tom called him and said ‘Yeah, it’s cool, you can play Lestat, that’s fine, I’m okay with that,’ and he was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ ” Kimmel, 56, responded.

Cruise, 62, and Pitt costarred in 1994’s Interview with the Vampire as two vampires living in the 18th and 19th century; the movie also starred Kirsten Dunst.

When asked whether people quickly guess Clooney is pranking them when they receive odd-sounding letters from celebrities, he answered, “There’s usually some guess involved with me. Usually somehow they figure it out.”

“I will say this — once you’ve done a really dastardly, long-running thing, it’s like having nuclear weapons,” he added. “Everyone’s so terrified that you can — you know this — somebody called Richard Kind and they wanted to do Punk’d or one of those dumba– shows, and they wanted to like punk me and they called all my friends and they were like ‘No! He could put a dead body in my apartment.’ “

Clooney has a long-running penchant for pulling pranks on his collaborators, friends and costars. He even told Kimmel that he intentionally worked up his and Pitt’s Wolfs director Jon Watts before the filmmaker pitched Pitt on making their new action-comedy.

“I really made him go through the pitch with me, I made him work on it. ‘Tell me how you’re going to say it, don’t do that,’ ” Clooney recalled. “I really just scared the absolute s— out of him before [he called Brad].”

Wolfs is in select theaters Sept. 20, then on Apple TV+ starting Sept. 27.

Source people.com