--- description: George Clooney just became latest person to call out Steve Bannon's — this time by slamming his screenwriting title: George Clooney: Steve Bannon Is a 'Failed Screenwriter' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt604cd74c27481da9/6988dd27196cf4bc07041dba/gettyimages-841963692.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # George Clooney: Steve Bannon Is a 'Failed Screenwriter' by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 9, 2017 8:51 PM CUT  George Clooney walks the red carpet ahead of the 'Suburbicon' screening during the 74th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on September 2, 2017 in Venice, Italy. George Clooney walks the red carpet ahead of the 'Suburbicon' screening during the 74th Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande on September 2, 2017 in Venice, Italy.Photography by Elisabetta A. Villa—WireImage/Getty by [Lisa Marie Segarra](/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 9, 2017 8:51 PM CUT “Steve Bannon is a failed f—ing screenwriter, and if you’ve ever read \[his\] screenplay, it’s unbelievable. Now, if he’d somehow managed miraculously to get that thing produced, he’d still be in Hollywood, still making movies and licking my a— to get me to do one of his stupid-a— screenplays,” Clooney said, [according to _Entertainment Weekly._](http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/09/george-clooney-steve-bannon/?utm%5Fcampaign=entertainmentweekly&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=twitter.com&xid=entertainment-weekly%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter "undefined") _Entertainment Weekly_ noted that before Bannon joined right-wing news site Brietbart, he worked in Hollywood as a producer. Clooney was at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting his new movie _Suburbicon_. “I like picking fights,” Clooney said, according to _EW_. “I like that Breitbart News wants to have my head. I’d be ashamed 10 years from now if those weaselly little putzes, whose voices are getting a lot higher every week as this presidency starts to look worse and worse weren’t still \[after me\]” Bannon is scheduled to appear on _60 Minutes_, according to _Entertainment Weekly_. 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