Actor George Clooney has slammed US President Donald Trump's criticism of Hollywood's stars as "liberal elites", calling the claim "ridiculous" coming from a real estate magnate born into wealth.
"Here's the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies' shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I'd have a tie to go on job interviews," Clooney, 56, told the Daily Beast.
"The idea that I'm somehow the 'Hollywood elite' and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable," he said.
The actor - who was promoting Suburbicon, his upcoming satire on race relations starring Matt Damon - said liberals in the entertainment industry, whom Trump regularly chastises as "coastal elites", largely hail from America's Midwest heartland and moved to Hollywood for their careers.
Clooney also didn't hold back on Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon - largely deemed responsible for the administration's appeal to the alt-right - calling him a "pussy".
"Steve Bannon is a little wannabe writer who would do anything in the world to have had a script made in Hollywood," Clooney said, referring to Bannon's notorious forays into the film world.
"Here's the truth: if Steve Bannon had Hollywood say, 'Oh, this is a really good script,' and they had made his movie, he'd still be in Hollywood writing his f---in' movies and kissing my ass to be in one of his f---in' films," Clooney said.
"Here's the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies' shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I'd have a tie to go on job interviews," Clooney, 56, told the Daily Beast.
"The idea that I'm somehow the 'Hollywood elite' and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable," he said.
The actor - who was promoting Suburbicon, his upcoming satire on race relations starring Matt Damon - said liberals in the entertainment industry, whom Trump regularly chastises as "coastal elites", largely hail from America's Midwest heartland and moved to Hollywood for their careers.
Clooney also didn't hold back on Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon - largely deemed responsible for the administration's appeal to the alt-right - calling him a "pussy".
"Steve Bannon is a little wannabe writer who would do anything in the world to have had a script made in Hollywood," Clooney said, referring to Bannon's notorious forays into the film world.
"Here's the truth: if Steve Bannon had Hollywood say, 'Oh, this is a really good script,' and they had made his movie, he'd still be in Hollywood writing his f---in' movies and kissing my ass to be in one of his f---in' films," Clooney said.
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