Joel Edgerton has claimed that Hollywood superstar George Clooney gave him Covid.
The Australian actor was appearing on The Sunday Project this weekend when he said that he and the entire cast of his latest film The Boys in the Boat, which Clooney directed, contracted the illness at a party which he described as a ‘petrie dish.’
‘The legendary cast dinner. I thought post COVID was a thing of the past’ the 49-year-old began.
‘It was George, so we held it in this private, in a really tiny cellar door kind of room. An incubator’ he said.
‘Within three weeks every member of that dinner had COVID except for one, I think, who’d previously had it.’
Joel Edgerton has claimed that Hollywood superstar George Clooney gave him Covid. Pictured together recently
Joel said that George accused him of being the one who had Covid first, but he insists it was actually Clooney who spread the bug.
‘George decided in the last year I’m patient zero. But I’ve been going around telling everyone George Clooney gave me Covid’ Joel joked.
He added that he thought it ‘sounded cool’ to have caught the illness from the celebrated actor.
Joel stars in the new Clooney-directed drama The Boys in the Boat which tells the true story of nine student athletes.
The Australian actor was appearing on The Sunday Project this weekend when he said that he and the entire cast of his latest film The Boys in the Boat, which Clooney directed, contracted the illness at a party which he described as a ‘petrie dish’
Joel stars in the new Clooney-directed drama The Boys in the Boat (pictured) which tells the true story of nine student athletes
The film follows the University of Washington crew team that represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympic games in Berlin.
It is based on the 2013 book of the same name by Daniel James Brown and also stars Callum Turner.
The film is scheduled to be released by Amazon MGM Studios in the United States on December 25.
It then comes to Australian cinemas on January 4th 2024.
‘George decided in the last year I’m patient zero. But I’ve been going around telling everyone George Clooney gave me Covid’ Joel joked
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