“I’m just so happy because they were at my house for the wedding and the honeymoon and I gotta say… I cried several times.”

George Clooney jokes about pal Brad Pitt’s rumored weekend wedding to Angelina Jolie.

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Don’t let that Oscar fool you!

Renee Zellweger “has no talent,” according to close buddy and Leatherheads co-star George Clooney.

“You know what the problem is? She has no talent. And she’s not cute,” the perennial jokester quips to Parade.com. “And it was very hard for me to work with her.”

Not that hard. Getting serious, the Oscar-winning hunk says Renee is exactly the opposite. “She’s smart. She can do anything. She can deliver a punch line with the best of them. And she’s one of the sweetest, nicest people on earth. And she’s a dear friend.”

Renee can’t help but say the same for George, 46, who also directed the 1920s football romantic comedy.

“Just as you’d expect, he’s funny and witty,” she tells Parade.com.

But George still knows when it’s time to get down to work, getting “very focused” on set when it was time to yell “Action!”

“He has the process of a filmmaker, who’s much more seasoned than he is, like someone who’s been doing this for 35 years, not five,” the 38-year-old actress says.

And how about that smooch between the two in the film?

“That’s the one thing I can’t remember,” George says.

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Renée Zellweger and George Clooney have been pals for a long time – long enough, it seems, that even wise-cracking about their personal lives comes easy.

In a new interview with the U.K. edition of Marie Claire, the pair – who costar together in the new movie Leatherheads – have a good laugh about their views on marriage.

“We’ve both been very successful at it,” Clooney joked. (He’s divorced, and Zellweger annulled her marriage to Kenny Chesney after four months).

The pair have been friends for ten years and they’ve been romantically linked in the past, prompting Zellweger, 38, to joke: “We’re married! Didn’t you hear? The baby’s coming in July. Why do you think I’m wearing this baggy jacket?”

In all seriousness, though, she thinks Clooney, 46, is a “good man,” saying: “It’s just his natural disposition … he does the right thing, it’s almost a disease with him. I know it’s shocking in this day and age that there’s no scandal. He’s just nice and he works very, very hard.”

‘One of My Dearest Friends’
Clooney, twice named People’s Sexiest Man Alive, was similarly effusive about Zellweger, describing her as “one of my dearest friends.” As the writer and director of the 1920s football comedy Leatherheads, Clooney says he felt under pressure as well.

“When Renee commits, it greenlights a movie. So, there’s a responsibility, as the director of this film, not to screw up my friend,” Clooney said. Zellweger chimed in: “And I reminded him daily. ‘Don’t screw this up for me, man.’”

Zellweger, meanwhile, has nothing but praise for Clooney, her director and costar, although she admitted feeling the pressure when she realized her part in Leatherheads was written for her by Clooney.

“I was terrified,” she says. “I didn’t want to be the one who sucked in his movie. You’d much rather disappoint someone you’re not going to see again.”

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Pictured: George Clooney and girlfriend Sarah Larson, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski and Cindy Crawford.

George Clooney plans to walk away from acting before he hits 60, to concentrate on film-making full-time.

After finding fame infront of the camera, Clooney has been expanding into writing and directing in recent years, with the Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck and his new movie Leatherheads. And the 46-year-old reveals he is prepared to make the switch full-time when he’s too old to play leading men.

Clooney says, “I certainly would do that with the acting part. I’m fairly comfortable with the idea of growing into a grey-haired old character actor. But the reason I’m directing and writing is that it’s a world that will allow me to be creative long after people stop wanting to see me in front of a camera.”

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“It’s on the hood of my car. Is that bad?”

George Clooney jokes about where he keeps his Oscar, which actually stands on a mantle in his office.

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