Movie stars read pre-Oscars mean tweets about themselves for Jimmy Kimmel

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George Clooney and other stars read Oscar-themed mean tweets
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Cue the intro to R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" and whip up a fresh batch of schadenfreude — on Thursday night, Jimmy Kimmel celebrated this weekend's Academy Awards with a movie-themed "mean tweets" video. In this collection of famous people reading 140-character insults about themselves, George Clooney is a "gross ratty old man," Emily Blunt hears from a scatological fetishist, Richard Dreyfuss makes a strange verbal slip, Taraji P. Henson and Susan Sarandon get saucy, and Sean Penn gets a full blast of ugly. The winner, if there is one, has to be Jessica Chastain. "I like that one," she said. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter Weber, The Week US
Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.