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George Clooney was pranked by Brad Pitt. Picture: AFP/Valery/HacheSource:AFP

George Clooney has revealed the hilarious prank that Brad Pitt pulled on him when they were filming Ocean’s 12 in Italy.

Speaking to GQ, Clooney recalled how Pitt made him out to be a diva while they were shooting the 2004 film in Lake Como where Clooney lives.

“Brad sent out a memo to all the people in the town – my town! I’ve lived there for years – but he had it posted on telephone poles. It said, ‘The movie is coming to town, and please only address George Clooney as Mr Clooney, and his character’s name is Danny Ocean, and don’t look him right in the eyes.’”

The local press fell for the prank, resulting in some negative headlines for Clooney.

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“The papers were like, ‘George Clooney is Il Divo!’ It was a horrible story,” Clooney laughed.

Brad Pitt and George Clooney in 2008.Source:News Limited

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He was on the receiving end on this occasion, but usually it’s Clooney who pulls the pranks on his co-stars.

One of his best was on Matt Damon when they were filming The Monuments Men. Clooney told the wardrobe department to take in the waist of Damon’s pants every couple of days, tricking the actor into thinking he was putting on weight.

“It was just funny because he showed up on the set, Matt looks great,” Clooney told E! News. “He shows up on the set, he’s like ‘I wanna lose 15 pounds (6kg) on this movie.’

George Clooney and Matt Damon in The Monuments Men.Source:Supplied

“So he’s dieting and exercising. He would go away for a week and I would just have the wardrobe people take in his wardrobe half an inch. By the end, he’s just like eating a grape but his pants are getting tighter,” Clooney laughed.

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Damon didn’t find out he’d been pranked until after the movie finished shooting.

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George Clooney is getting candid about his performance in the widely panned “Batman & Robin” and also sharing some of his favorite pranks he’s pulled on his famous friends.

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Speaking on “The Howard Stern Show,” Clooney told Stern that it is physically painful for him to watch his performance as the Caped Crusader, explaining, “It’s so bad that it actually hurts to watch.”

“The truth of the matter is, I was bad in it,” Clooney said. “Akiva Goldsman — who’s won the Oscar for writing since then — he wrote the screenplay, and it’s a terrible screenplay, he’ll tell you. I’m terrible in it, I’ll tell you. Joel Schumacher, who just passed away, directed it, and he’d say, ‘Yeah, it didn’t work.’” He added, “We all whiffed on that one.”

Clooney also shared that friend Ben Affleck called him asking for advice when he was offered the role of the Dark Knight in Zack Snyder’s take on the DC comic hero. Clooney told Affleck not to do it and advised him to make sure that his bat-suit doesn’t have nipples. However, Clooney feels that Affleck ended up doing a great job in the role.

Of his penchant for pulling pranks on his famous friends, Clooney doled out anecdotes on a handful of his japes, particularly those involving Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, and Meryl Streep.

Regarding Damon, Clooney said that for years he bought ads in two of Hollywood’s biggest trade publications, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, campaigning for Damon to be named sexiest man alive using a photo of Damon in a neon green speedo from his appearance in “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”

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Another time, Clooney posed as Pitt, sending Meryl Streep a collection of instructional audio recordings on accents ahead of Streep’s performance as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.” The rouse was payback for a prank Pitt pulled on Clooney during the filming of “Ocean’s 12” in Italy. Pitt had posters put up all around Lake Cuomo, where Clooney has a home, saying, in Italian, that locals should only address Clooney as his character, “Danny Ocean.” The local media eventually caught wind, not knowing it was a prank, and labeled Clooney, “Il Divo.”