Matt Damon Describes the Prank George Clooney Pulled On Him That Still Has Him Questioning His Sanity

George Clooney is known for being charming, winning two Academy Awards, acting, directing, and pulling pranks on his A-list friends and co-stars. Matt Damon is one of the few who has shared the screen and a close friendship with Clooney, and he has one funny new story to tell about a classic Clooney prank.

In a recent profile on Clooney with Variety, Damon said that while making the 2014 war drama, The Monuments Men, Clooney had the wardrobe department take in the waist of Damon’s costumes by an eighth of an inch every day.

“I was in my early 40s at the time, and worried about going to seed,” Damon said. “He just delighted in messing with me. Long after that happened, I came home from making another movie and put on a suit that was too tight. My first thought was that George had gotten into my closet.”

Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh said of Clooney’s antics:

“He’s very patient, which makes him lethal when it comes to pranks. He had one teed up for [producer] Jerry Weintraub that was jaw-dropping that he never even used.

“He’d somehow gotten ahold of Jerry’s golf clubs, and [when Jerry was napping] he took some very compromising photographs of them arranged in a way that clubs should not be arranged. It would have been seismic.”

Clooney seems to be such a nice and charming guy that he could just get away with these things with a smile. While I don’t love practical jokes, I bet I’d let it slide if it came from George Clooney.