Clooney and Pitt fall out?

25 September 2008 03:06pm

Reports are continuing to circulate that big screen buddies Brad Pitt and George Clooney have fallen out over a film role.

The handsome pair - who most recently starred together in Burn After Reading - are said to be fighting to land the plum role of Professor Henry Higgins in a remake of My Fair Lady.

And the competition for the role may well have taken its toll on their friendship.

"We both badly want a particular role and neither is backing down," George is quoted by OK! as saying. "It's sort of become an intense competition between us now and it just keeps escalating."

George also reportedly claimed that he and Brad were angry with each other and "not even in contact anymore".

The film heartthrobs have had a firm friendship for many years, and have starred together in a number of films, most famously the Ocean's trilogy.

They were still showing a united front at the Venice Film Festival in August, when they appeared together on the red carpet for the premiere of Burn After Reading. But George was absent for the film's screening at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month, when Brad was snapped drawing a moustache on a picture of his co-star for a fan on the red carpet.

If George's comments are genuine, and not just another example of his legendary sense of humour, then what is harder believe is an additional rumour about Brad wanting his partner Angelina Jolie to play Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle in the movie - a role which has been earmarked for British starlet Keira Knightley.

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