Clooney thrilled with early movie flops

Hollywood hunk George Clooney is thrilled a majority of his early movies flopped at the box office - because it stopped him from being typecast.

Hollywood hunk George Clooney is thrilled a majority of his early movies flopped at the box office - because it stopped him from being typecast.

The 43-year-old actor doesn't regret making critically mauled movies including Return of the Killer Tomatoes, Red Surf and The Harvest because they gave him the opportunity to tackle a range of genres at the beginning of his film career.

He explains: "I'm lucky enough, sort of in a backward way, that a lot of films that I did weren't particularly successful early, so I didn't get pigeonholed.

"I've been given free rein to try a bunch of different things and have them all fail at once!"

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