George Clooney On The Cover Of Esquire Magazine, Slams Russell Crowe And Leonardo DiCaprio – ‘What The F— Is Wrong With You?’ Clooney Says

Hollywood's most eligible bachelor sat down with Esquire Magazine, where he is being featured on the cover. George Clooney remains to be one of the most likable leading men in Hollywood.

However, during his most straightforward interview with Esquire, the 52-year old actor has something to say to Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio.

George recounted his feud with the "30 Odd Foot o Grunts" front man Russell Crowe. He told Esquire how Crowe, "picked a fight with me. He started it for no reason at all. He put out this thing saying, 'George Clooney, Harrison Ford, and Robert De Niro are sellouts.'"

Russell Crowe's actual quote from the GQ Magazine March 2005 issue:

"I don't use my 'celebrity' to make a living. I don't do ads for suits in Spain like George Clooney, or cigarettes in Japan like Harrison Ford ... To me it's kind of sacrilegious - it's a complete contradiction of the f-ing social contract you have with your audience. I mean, Robert De Niro's advertising American Express."

Clooney took it lightly, he jokingly said that he, Ford and De Niro were going to start their band.

"And that's when [Crowe] really went off on me," he said. "And so I sent him a note going, 'Dude, the only people who succeed when two famous people are fighting is People magazine. What the f- is wrong with you?'"

In the end, Crowe ended up apologizing to Clooney and "He sends me a disc of his music and a thing of his poetry," Clooney recalls. "I think he said, 'I was all misquoted,' and I was like, 'Yeah, yeah. Whatever.'"

George also spoke about actor Leonardo DiCaprio - and suggested that actor might not have the right crowd of people around him at all times.

The pair played a basketball game together after striking up a friendship.

The "Ocean's Twelve" actor didn't just stop at Russell Crowe he also had something to say about Leonard DiCaprio.

"The thing about playing [basketball against] Leo is you have all these guys talking sh-," Clooney explains in the December issue of Esquire. Clooney, by contrast, knows "that you don't talk sh- unless you can play." And in the end, he continues, Leo and his trash-talking teammates were no match for Clooney and his quieter pals: "'We're all like 50 years old, and we beat them three straight: 11-0, 11-0, 11-0."

"And the discrepancy between their game and how they talked about their game made me think of how important it is to have someone in your life to tell you what's what," George wondered.

"I'm not sure if Leo has someone like that."

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