George Clooney didn’t need a movie set, a script, or even a camera to get some of his biggest laughs.
According to Fox News, all he needed, he said, was a little creativity, a few famous friends, and a stack of very convincing stationery.
The longtime actor shared the stories during an appearance on Travis and Jason Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, where the brothers pressed him on a rumor that had circulated in Hollywood for years. Clooney didn’t shy away from it — in fact, he leaned right in.
The conversation started when Jason asked about the whispers that he once sent fake notes to celebrities pretending to be former President Bill Clinton. Clooney said the truth was even funnier.
“So, no — Jimmy Kimmel gave me a stack of stationery with a presidential seal and Bill Clinton’s name on it,” he explained. “And I would send notes to all these actors from Bill Clinton, I’d sign it — and I’d find a movie that wasn’t a great film, and I’d write, ‘I loved you in this film.’”
Clooney said the prank didn’t just happen once or twice. It snowballed.
“I’d write these notes, and I’d send them. I sent [them] to, like, 30 different actors. I guarantee you some of them are framed in some of their homes — guaranteed,” he said, laughing along with the Kelce brothers. He admitted he has pulled off countless tricks over the years, and the Clinton stunt was just one chapter.
Another came courtesy of Kimmel, who later gave him a different set of fake stationery — this time designed to look like it belonged to Brad Pitt, Clooney’s longtime friend and “Ocean’s Eleven” co-star.
Clooney said the opportunity presented itself when he received a bulky book filled with dialect CDs. The odd gift sparked an idea, and he knew exactly who the target should be: Meryl Streep.
“Somebody sent me this book of dialects on CDs, where you could do an Irish accent, or you could do a French accent,” he said. “There’s a guy who teaches [accents]. And I had this big book. I don’t know why I had it, somebody sent it to me.”
That’s when Clooney decided to turn it into another Hollywood prank.
“And so I take a note with Brad Pitt’s [signature] and I send it to Meryl Streep. And I go, ‘Dear Meryl, from Brad — this guy helped me in my accent in the movie ‘Troy,’ and I thought maybe you could use it,’” he recalled. “And I sent her this book of accents from Brad Pitt.”
According to Clooney, Streep held onto the strange gift for years, baffled but silent — until he finally confessed.
“Like, four years later, I see her and I tell this story, and she’s like, ‘Oh my God, I was wondering why the f— he’s sending me [this book],’” he said.
Clooney said the pranks between him and Pitt have gone both ways over the years, joking, “We’ve done a lot of terrible things to each other. He’s done terrible things to me, man, so it all comes out.”
Before the episode wrapped, Clooney also touched on his marriage to Amal Clooney, prompting Travis to jump in with a question about their unusually peaceful relationship.
“You claim that you and your wife haven’t gotten in a fight in 10 years. Are you lying?” Travis asked.
“No, I’m not lying,” Clooney said, before flipping the question back on him. “Travis, shall we ask you the same question?”
Travis laughed as he shared that his relationship with Taylor Swift has followed the same pattern.
“Well, it’s only been two and a half years, and you’re right. I haven’t gotten into an argument — never once,” he said.
