George Clooney drinks like a girl

Speaking of pranks, you worked with our governor on Batman & Robin. Did you pull any practical jokes on him? Yeah, I pulled a few good ones and one really great one. Arnold told me he could drink me under the table. I was like, “You’re out of your mind. I’m Irish.” He was like, “You don’t know about Austrians.”

He had this bar called Schatzi. He wanted to drink peach schnapps. It’s clear and the worst-tasting thing you’ve ever tried. I did the first shot at a table with, like, 15 other people. James Caan was there, Tom Arnold—it was a weird group of people. He was busy talking to somebody, and I went over to one of the waitresses who was bringing us the shots and I said, “Here’s $500 if you bring me shots of water and him shots of schnapps.” So every five minutes I’d be standing there with another shot glass in my hand, putting my arm around him, saying, “C’mon, old man, let’s go.” And I’m not kidding when I tell you he had 15 shots of schnapps and I had 15 shots of water. Maria had to carry him out. And to this day, when I run into him he’s like, “He can really drink. That Irishman’s got a hollow leg.”*