George Clooney reveals Mark Wahlberg, Johnny Depp turned down Ocean's Eleven

George Clooney recently opened up about  Hollywood actors who turned down starring in 2011 film Ocean's Eleven. He recently attended 2023 TCM Classic Film Festival. He shared that Mark Wahlberg and Johnny Depp were in talks about starring in film. 

y were supposed to play role of Linus, which eventually went to Matt Damon. At event, Ocean's Eleven director Steven Soderbergh was also in attendance. While interacting with media, Clooney said, "Some actors turned down offer. Some very famous told us to f*k right off. Mask Wahlberg, Johnny Depp. re were ors. y regret it w. I regret doing f**g Batman".

George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh on idea of making Ocean's Eleven

At event, George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh said that idea of making Ocean's Eleven came while he was thinking of combining his work with "Indies with mainstream big-budget Hollywood films." Soderbergh said that he had desire to work in mainstream Hollywood film business and to make films that could be released in a lot of atres. " studios were making very big, broad, t very good films at that time." He furr said that Steven had this idea of trying to infuse all of this independent film stuff that all of se young filmmakers were learning back into studio system. "It was going to get back to things that y were doing from like 1964 to 1975," Clooney added. 

About Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven

Steven Soderbergh's directorial Ocean's Eleven was released in 2001. storyline of film revolves around a gangster named Danny Ocean, who assembles a group of 11 people in an attempt to steal money from three casis owned by his rival Terry Benedict in Las Vegas. film starred  George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Elliott Gould, Bernie Mac, Qin Shaobo, and Carl Reiner among ors.