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George Clooney Once Got Into a Physical Fight With David O. Russell: ‘I Was Going to Kill Him’

Clooney says he confronted the director over his treatment of the crew before their argument escalated into a physical altercation.

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Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell has developed quite a reputation for being abusive toward the people he’s worked with over the years. In 2016, Amy Adams told British GQ that Russell made her cry every day on the set of 2013’s American Hustle. Russell was also caught on tape cursing out Lily Tomlin while the two were filming a scene from their 2004 film I Heart Huckabees.

You can check out a clip of that incident below, should you be so inclined.

Evidently, Russell didn’t learn his lesson after getting into a physical altercation with George Clooney in 1998. In a 2000 interview with Playboy, Clooney explained that he and........

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