Mark Wahlberg and Johnny Depp were singled out by George Clooney for not joining Ocean's Eleven, and he had no difficulty doing so.
The 61-year-old actor claimed Depp and Wahlberg both turned down the role of Linus Caldwell in an interview at the 2023 TCM Classic Film Festival. Later, Matt Damon was cast in the part.
We received some extremely famous advice to f*** off. Johnny Depp with Mark Wahlberg. Others were present. They now regret it. Clooney said, "I regret doing f****** Batman. "Steven [Soderbergh] had recently directed Traffic and Erin Brockovich, for which he received nominations… People were therefore eager to collaborate with Steven.
Soderbergh added, "That said, some people did say no to us," before disclosing the identities of the A-listers.
Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts, and Don Cheadle were among the great stars who appeared in the successful film.
The director explained what initially motivated him to create the film.
It appeared to be the next step in Soderbergh's aim to work in the mainstream film industry and produce films that would play in numerous cinemas. "I grew up seeing films made by great directors that were unique and successful financially. And I wished to participate in that custom.
It's crucial to understand where we were at the time, Clooney continued. At the time, the studios were producing enormously large, broad, and subpar pictures. Steven came up with the notion of trying to incorporate everything that these young filmmakers were learning about independent filmmaking into the studio system. It was going to return to the practices that were in place from, say, 1964 to 1975.
The two then talked about Soderbergh's brief hiatus from the movie business.
He explained his leave of absence by saying, "I conflated some frustrations I had with the way that business works with the job." "I like my profession, which I recently realized thanks to reading something that thankfully came to me and became The Knick. I was made for this position. Additionally, I had just become perplexed due to how frustrating the industry is. I therefore make a tremendous effort to keep my business, which is frustrating, and my profession, which I adore, apart from one another. However, creating something that people are still talking about more than 20 years later is one of the joys. Because feeling unimportant is every filmmaker's worst dread.
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