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George Clooney bet Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle $10,000 to spend the night in a haunted house on Lake Como, but they couldn't do it
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Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and Don Cheadle starred in the 'Ocean's' movie series together. Kurt Krieger/Corbis via Getty Images/GQ YouTube/Amy Sussman/Getty Images

• George Clooney told GQ that he once bet Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle $10,000 to stay in a haunted house in Lake Como while they were shooting 'Ocean's 12.'
  
• Clooney and his costars were staying in his house in Lake Como, when Clooney and his friend made up that the empty house across the lake was haunted.
  
• Clooney said: 'We give $10,000 to any guy who could spend a night in the haunted house with just a candle and a bottle of wine.'
  
• Pitt and Cheadle took the bet, but they couldn't do it: 'We get a call and they're like 'f--- that, get us out of this house!'
  

George Clooney once bet his 'Ocean's 12' costars Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle $10,000 to stay in a haunted house in Lake Como overnight, but they couldn't do it.
Clooney recalled the story during a video with GQ in which he revisited his most iconic movie roles, including the 'Ocean's' movies, the second of which they shot parts of in Lake Como, Italy.
'We were all staying at my house in Lake Como, and there was a house across the lake. It was empty. There was an Italian book about it and we'd made up a story about how haunted it was,' Clooney said.
George Clooney's Lake Como villa. Max Rossi/Reuters
Clooney, who played the titular Danny Ocean in the movie series, told GQ that his Italian friend Giovanni pretended to read a story about a man who used to kill people in the now-abandoned house and then throw them into the lake. Clooney and Giovanni managed to talk everybody into 'how dangerous this house was.'
The Oscar-nominated actor then went on a late-night trip with three of his costars: Pitt, Cheadle, and Matt Damon, all of whom reprised their roles from 'Ocean's 11.'
'At 3 in the morning, we get a ladder and we put it on this pontoon boat and Matt and Don and Brad and I took the boat across the water, took the ladder up and climbed in the house. The first thing we saw was this statue of a snake eating a woman's head.'

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Clooney continued: 'We came down to the conclusion: we give $10,000 to any guy who could spend a night in the haunted house with just a candle and a bottle of wine. You got a candle, you got six matches, and you got a bottle of wine.'
Brad Pitt and George Clooney in 'Ocean's 12.' Warner Bros.
It was Pitt and Cheadle who ended up taking the bet and staying in the supposedly haunted house, while Clooney and Damon went back to the boat and drove out to the middle of the lake to see how long their costars could last.

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'We're sitting in the boat in the middle of the lake. And we have to see the candle go by every window. It goes by like two or three windows and then we get a call and they're like 'f--- that, get us out of this house!' And we came back and pulled them out.'
Clooney, Pitt, Cheadle, and Damon all starred in all three 'Ocean's' movies together, while they have all continued to work together in some capacity ever since. Clooney summarized his fun time making the 'Ocean's' movie: 'There was a lot of idiocy that went on along the way.'

George Clooney is getting candid about his performance in the widely panned “Batman & Robin” and also sharing some of his favorite pranks he’s pulled on his famous friends.

Speaking on “The Howard Stern Show,” Clooney told Stern that it is physically painful for him to watch his performance as the Caped Crusader, explaining, “It’s so bad that it actually hurts to watch.”

“The truth of the matter is, I was bad in it,” Clooney said. “Akiva Goldsman — who’s won the Oscar for writing since then — he wrote the screenplay, and it’s a terrible screenplay, he’ll tell you. I’m terrible in it, I’ll tell you. Joel Schumacher, who just passed away, directed it, and he’d say, ‘Yeah, it didn’t work.’” He added, “We all whiffed on that one.”

Clooney also shared that friend Ben Affleck called him asking for advice when he was offered the role of the Dark Knight in Zack Snyder’s take on the DC comic hero. Clooney told Affleck not to do it and advised him to make sure that his bat-suit doesn’t have nipples. However, Clooney feels that Affleck ended up doing a great job in the role.

Of his penchant for pulling pranks on his famous friends, Clooney doled out anecdotes on a handful of his japes, particularly those involving Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, and Meryl Streep.

Regarding Damon, Clooney said that for years he bought ads in two of Hollywood’s biggest trade publications, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, campaigning for Damon to be named sexiest man alive using a photo of Damon in a neon green speedo from his appearance in “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”

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Another time, Clooney posed as Pitt, sending Meryl Streep a collection of instructional audio recordings on accents ahead of Streep’s performance as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady.” The rouse was payback for a prank Pitt pulled on Clooney during the filming of “Ocean’s 12” in Italy. Pitt had posters put up all around Lake Cuomo, where Clooney has a home, saying, in Italian, that locals should only address Clooney as his character, “Danny Ocean.” The local media eventually caught wind, not knowing it was a prank, and labeled Clooney, “Il Divo.”