To get back at George for the pot plant bumper sticker, Brad saw the perfect opportunity during a Venice Film Festival junket a few years later. He'd been doing interviews for hours, and reporters kept asking him when he was going to marry Angelina Jolie. “He got so sick of the questions that he said, ‘I’ll marry Angelina when George Clooney marries his boyfriend,’” recalled Matt, who was there doing interviews for his role in The Informant at the same time, while talking to David Letterman months later.
Naturally it didn't take long for a journalist to ask Matt if the rumors were true, and since he was happy to help Brad out with the lie, he responded, “Yeah, yes of course he has a boyfriend; we’ve been on him to do it for years." The foreign press didn't pick up on the joke at first, leading a man to strip for George the next day at one of the festival's panels and proclaim his love for him.
