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Apr 2022
54m 2s

Ocean's 11

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Jordan and Alex go deep on Steven Soderbergh’s remake of the classic 1960 Rat Pack heist film. Listen and learn why Brad Pitt ate 40 shrimp, Don Cheadle refused to be credited, and why the original Rat Packers hated this movie. You’ll also learn how the most famous scene was improvised, The Royal Tenenbaums’s made casting a nightmare, and all the ways George Clooney pranked just about everybody. 

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