At a certain point in your life — hopefully sooner rather than later — you realize working with (or for) needlessly angry people just isn’t worth it. Life is short. That’s something George Clooney is all too aware of after he famously clashed with director David O. Russell on the set of Three Kings. In a recent GQ cover story, Clooney said he isn’t going to repeat that experience anytime soon.

“The older you get, time allotment is very different. Five months out of your life is a lot,” Clooney said. “And so it’s not just like, ‘Oh, I’m going to go do a really good film, like Three Kings, and I’m going to have a miserable f**k like David O Russell making my life hell. Making every person in the crew’s life hell.’ It’s not worth it. Not at this point in my life. Just to have a good product.“

Russell frequently had angry outbursts on the set of Three Kings, and Clooney regularly defended the extras and crew members. Russell reportedly even ignored an extra who was having an epileptic seizure. Clooney and Russell eventually came to blows after Clooney saw Russell allegedly getting physical with an extra. Clooney later called the production the “worst experience of my life.” This wasn’t the end of Russell’s abuse of his cast and crew, as he verbally berated Lily Tomlin on the set of I Heart Huckabees, made Amy Adams’ life a “living hell” during the production of American Hustle, and even apparently attacked Christopher Nolan at a Hollywood party.

In the same interview, Clooney also had a few words for Quentin Tarantino, who reportedly criticized the actor’s career. “Quentin said some shit about me recently, so I’m a little irritated by him,” Clooney said. “He did some interview where he was naming movie stars, and he was talking about you, and somebody else, and then this guy goes, ‘Well, what about George?’ He goes, he’s not a movie star. And then he literally said something like, ”Name me a movie since the millennium.” And I was like, “Since the millennium? That’s kind of my whole fucking career.’“

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Alien: Romulus looks to be a terrifying love letter to the first film in the series, released back in the late ‘70s. But that sci-fi horror classic is not the only thing Romulus is drawing from, so as you watch the movie later this week, keep an eye open for the emergency phones first seen decades later in Alien:…

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Alien: Romulus looks to be a terrifying love letter to the first film in the series, released back in the late ‘70s. But that sci-fi horror classic is not the only thing Romulus is drawing from, so as you watch the movie later this week, keep an eye open for the emergency phones first seen decades later in Alien:…

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It seems like everyone I know is now playing Magic: The Gathering. My roommate picked it up because of one of our longtime friends and now everywhere I go, I see the game. Coincidentally, the rise in its popularity among my friends has occurred as the game’s started pumping up the number of collaborations it does with…

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It seems like everyone I know is now playing Magic: The Gathering. My roommate picked it up because of one of our longtime friends and now everywhere I go, I see the game. Coincidentally, the rise in its popularity among my friends has occurred as the game’s started pumping up the number of collaborations it does with…

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We found out last month that Silver Linings Playbook Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence and The Batman star Robert Pattinson have the lead roles in the thriller Die, My Love, which is coming our way from We Need to Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here director Lynne Ramsay. Now Deadline reports that LaKeith Stanfield – whose credits include The Book of Clarence, Atlanta, Sorry to Bother You, Judas and the Black Messiah, The Harder They Fall, Haunted Mansion, Short Term 12, Knives Out, Selma, Uncut Gems, Death Note, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Changeling, War Machine, Straight Outta Compton, and Get Out (pictured above) – is in final negotiations to join Lawrence and Pattinson in the cast.

Scripted by Ramsay and Enda Walsh, Die, My Love is said to be “set in a remote forgotten rural area,” with the story centering on a mother who struggles to maintain her sanity as she battles with psychosis. We assume Lawrence will be playing the mother, but it hasn’t been revealed who Pattinson and Stanfield might be playing.

Jennifer Lawrence and Justine Ciarrocchi are producing the film through their Excellent Cadaver banner, alongside Martin Scorsese, Andrea Calderwood, and Black Label Media. Black Label Media is also financing the project.

Deadline notes that other upcoming projects for Stanfield, who earned an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Judas and the Black Messiah, include sharing the screen with Mark Wahlberg, Dermot Mulroney, Tony Shalhoub, and Rosa Salazar in the Shane Black crime thriller Play Dirty, starring in an adaptation of the vampire hunter video game El Paso, Elsewhere, and lending his voice to the documentary Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. Meanwhile, Pattinson has Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, Parker Finn’s remake of Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, and a sequel to The Batman coming our way, and Lawrence is working with A24 on a murder mystery called The Wives and an adaptation of the graphic novel Why Don’t You Love Me?

With Ramsay at the helm, Scorsese producing, and a strong cast being assembled, Die, My Love is shaping up to be quite promising.

Are you interested in Die, My Love? What do you think of LaKeith Stanfield joining Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in the cast? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

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Although the careers of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have arguably followed similar paths (I’ll leave it up to the comment section to decide who is the bigger star), Damon hasn’t had to face the same scrutiny from the media as Affleck.

Damon spoke on the Radio Times Podcast (via People) to say that he “can’t imagine” having all that attention over his head. “I’ve been really lucky in that way … especially when I look at Casey’s brother, Ben,” Damon said. “I can’t imagine living under that kind of scrutiny. And it’s been like that for 25 years and we’ve had parallel careers in a lot of ways and so I’m fortunate to have been kind of excused from that part of [it].“

As Affleck faced relentless tabloid attention thanks to his relationship(s) with Jennifer Lopez, Damon was spared as they found him boring. “That magazine culture that was so huge … 25 years ago, kind of ignored me,” Damon explained. “Right, like a guy who’s married, it’s so boring. What would sell those things were scandal and sex and all that stuff … and as long as you didn’t do any of that stuff it wasn’t really worth their time to wait to take your picture, and so I ended up kind of getting left alone.“

The actor added that he initially found fame to be a “bizarre, disorienting feeling” when all he wanted to do was work. “I just wanted to get to work and so I kind of hid for a few years while I got my bearings,” Damon said. “Luckily fell in love with someone who was not in the business who would tolerate that side of it and that really helped me.“

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have been working together more frequently in the last few years. Their next project is said to be RIP, a crime thriller written and directed by Joe Carnahan. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but they will also star in and produce through Artists Equity. It was previously reported that shooting will get underway this fall. They’re also set to produce a Hulk Hogan biopic with Gus Van Sant in talks to direct, and there have even been rumblings that the pair could star in the movie as well.

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A Russian chess player is facing possible jail time and criminal charges after she allegedly used liquid mercury from a broken thermometer to poison a rival player during a large tournament earlier this month.

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A Russian chess player is facing possible jail time and criminal charges after she allegedly used liquid mercury from a broken thermometer to poison a rival player during a large tournament earlier this month.

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The question on everyone’s lips right now is: Switch 2 when? Now in its eighth year, the current handheld hybrid is more than a little long in the tooth, and the evidence continues to mount that fans still have a bit of a wait to go before Nintendo launches its next console.

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