‘Wolfs’ Star Austin Abrams on Working With Brad Pitt and George Clooney (in His Underwear): ‘I Was Ready to Do Whatever I Needed to Do’
variety.comKatcy Stephan Austin Abrams wasn’t intimidated when he found out his role in “Wolfs” would require him to wear only underwear and crew socks for the first half of the film.
After all, he had previously stripped down to gold spandex shorts for a memorable homoerotic dance number on the HBO hit “Euphoria.” “I didn’t really care,” he tells Variety of the minimal costume. “I was kind of ready to do whatever I needed to do to be able to work with those guys.” The guys in question?
George Clooney and Brad Pitt. In the Jon Watts film, out today in a limited theatrical run and hitting Apple TV+ on Sept. 27, Clooney and Pitt play professional fixers who operate only as lone wolves.
Everything changes when they find themselves forced to cover up the (presumed) death of Abrams’ character, who’s only referred to as “Kid.” Abrams says the first day on set with the A-listers was both terrifying and exciting, but the duo put him at ease by being “super welcoming, as if I was an old friend or something like that.
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