George Clooney covers the December issue of Esquire. In the interview with the magazine he was less-than complimentary when talking about Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio. But Clooney’s rep insists that comments about DiCaprio were taken out of the context.

George recalled playing a basketball game against Leo, and complained particularly about his friends. He says, “The thing about playing Leo is you have all these guys talking s**t. The discrepancy between their game and how they talked about their game made me think of how important it is to have someone in your life to tell you what’s what. I’m not sure if Leo has someone like that.”

However, Clooney’s representative explained that the comments were all about basketball.  “The Leo comments made by George were all made in fun about basketball. Not about Leo’s life… The writer and George were laughing about basketball buddies,” the publicist said.

As for Russell Crowe, Clooney says the feud began when Crowe called him a sell-out. He told Esquire that Crowe picked a fight with him and called him a sell-out. After that he sent Clooney a poetry book as a form of apology. Describing Crowe’s apology, George said: “I think he said, ‘I was misquoted’, and I was like, ‘Yeah, yeah. Whatever.’”

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