Brad Pitt and George Clooney claim they are too famous to go to the HOSPITAL as they joke they are on their own if they get a 'knife wound'

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Brad Pitt and George Clooney revealed that they 'avoid' going to the hospital due to being too famous during a candid discussion about privacy and life in the spotlight. 

The Bullet Train actor, 60, opened up to GQ in an article published on Tuesday alongside the ER star, 63 - who revealed he's 'irritated' with Quentin Tarantino for talking 's**t' about his movie career.

The close pals - who first worked together in Ocean's Eleven over 20 years earlier - took on roles in the upcoming Apple TV+ action comedy, Wolfs, which will air on the streaming site on September 27. 

At one point, the pair were asked about dealing with fame, and Clooney expressed, 'A lot of people – even who reach a fairly high level of fame – find a way to be able to kind of live a normal life...'

'Walk around the streets of New York without being followed and stuff like that,' George said, but added there is, 'five or six of us where it's just never subsided.'

Brad Pitt, 60, and George Clooney, 63, stated that they 'avoid' going to the hospital due to being too famous during a candid discussion about privacy and life in the spotlight; seen in 2012 in L.A. 

'And there's never been that like, "Hey, let's take a walk through Central Park and not get hammered." It just hasn't happened yet. It will, obviously. But it hasn't happened yet.'

Clooney explained that his 'goal' was to 'protect' and told the outlet, 'I don't want pictures of my kids.

'We deal in very serious subject matters, with very serious bad guys, and we don't want to have photos of our kids out there.' 

The actor stated that 'we have to work hard at trying to stay private,' while admitting that it is 'tricky.'

'There's times you will avoid going to hospital with something that you would normally go to hospital for, because...,' George expressed, with Pitt cutting in to add, 'It's a headline. "I'll just, I'll heal up this knife wound."' 

Clooney then said, 'You will assess how bad something is before you go,' with Brad stating, 'Compound fracture, stick it back in.' 

Both stars have been in the spotlight over the span of their successful careers in the entertainment industry. While George took on his first role in the 1970s, Pitt appeared on the screen for the first time in the late 1980s. 

While talking to the New York Times back in 2019, the Fight Club actor opened up about fame following his breakthrough in the 1990s. 

'There's times you will avoid going to hospital with something that you would normally go to hospital for, because...,' George expressed, with Pitt cutting in to add, 'It's a headline. "I'll just, I'll heal up this knife wound"' 

'In the '90s, all that attention really threw me,' Brad revealed after starring in films at the time such as Legends Of The Fall (1994) and Meet Joe Black (1999). 

'It was really uncomfortable for me, the cacophony of expectations and judgments. I really became a bit of a hermit and just bonged myself into oblivion.' 

However, the star explained that over time, he was able to separate himself from the spotlight and the expectations that come with being famous. 

'Those dubious thoughts, the mind chatter, the rat in the skull - that's comedy. It's just ridiculous that we would beat ourselves up that way.'

Pitt added, 'It doesn't matter. I spent too much of life wrestling with those thoughts, or being tethered to those thoughts, or caged by those thoughts.' 

And during a past interview with Omega's Lifestyle Magazine, per IndieWire, Clooney expressed that, 'Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it.'

'And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.'

'If you actually lived the life that people hand to you, it'd be fantastic. Of course, no one actually is what those images are portrayed. I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work.' 

And during a past interview with Omega's Lifestyle Magazine, per IndieWire, Clooney expressed that, 'Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it'; seen in 2023 in London 

George also said at the time, 'I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.'

'Most people don't get this opportunity and I feel like because I have this opportunity I want to do as many things as I can to push as many limits as I can until they say I can't. And they will say I can't.'

Elsewhere during Pitt and Clooney's joint interview with GQ, the two stars opened up about their close friendship over the years. 

The pair first appeared on the big screen together in Ocean's Eleven (2001), and also starred in the sequels Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). 

In 2008, they took on roles in the movie, Burn After Reading, and a few years earlier, Brad appeared in Clooney's directorial film titled Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 2002. 

'We've been friends for a long time,' George told the outlet. 'And it's fun because we also check in on each other every once in a while, which is an important part of this.'

The pair first appeared on the big screen together in Ocean's Eleven (2001) and also starred in the sequels Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007); seen in Ocean's Eleven above

Brad and George took on roles in the Apple TV+ film, Wolfs, which will premiere on the streaming site on September 27, and will also have a limited theatrical release beginning on September 20

'Things get complicated in life and you always have to make sure everybody's okay,' the Ticket To Paradise star added. 

Brad gushed about his friend, and said he is, 'probably the best at understanding, seeing the chessboard and the potential moves. I'll call George on numerous occasions when things get bumpy.'

He also explained that George, 'is going to understand something that no one else is going to understand, that we don't even have to speak about.'

'There's a comfort in that. There's another smaller tribe that erupts from that because of the pressures and the struggles that one will have in their own life.'

The stars have known each other since the 1990s, and Pitt said they have, 'been through so much life at this point and so many twists and curves and turns. I know he’s got my back. I got his back.'

Brad and George took on roles in the Apple TV+ film, Wolfs, which will premiere on the streaming site on September 27, and will also have a limited theatrical release beginning on September 20. 

The premise of the movie - which was written and directed by Jon Watts - follows two lone wolf fixers that are assigned to work the same job. Other stars that were cast in the project include Austin Abrams, Amy Ryan, Poorna Jagannathan and Richard Kind.