Brad Pitt Calls Wolfs Costar and Longtime Friend George Clooney 'the Sexiest Man Still Alive' (Exclusive)

George Clooney and Brad Pitt are advocating for an alteration to PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive title.

On Wednesday, Sept. 18, longtime friends and costars Clooney, 63, and Pitt, 60, appeared on the red carpet at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles for the premiere of their new thriller-comedy, Wolfs.

When PEOPLE asked both actors if they have any advice for future Sexiest Men Alive — Clooney won the honor in 1997 and 2006, while Pitt held the title in 1995 and 2000 — Pitt jokes, "This is the Sexiest Man Still Alive," in reference to Clooney.

"Yes, exactly. That's going to be starting now. I know," Clooney adds. "I tried to get AARP to do that for Pitt, Sexiest Man Still Alive. I have the T-shirt, by the way. Somebody else got it. Yeah, all I got was a T-shirt."

Wolfs marks the first time Clooney and Pitt have led a movie together since 2008's Burn After Reading. The pair are also known for teaming up in the 2000s Ocean's heist movies. In the new movie, Clooney and Pitt both portray fixers hired for the same job and forced to work together.

"I'm too old to hit a curve ball, but I think that's an automatic, too. Never going to be a straight answer or straight delivery," Clooney tells PEOPLE of -

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working with an old friend like Pitt. "No, from the minute we got there, it was just easy to do it again. The fun part is that all the dialogue of us talking on top of each other was pretty easy to do because it was fun."

"Two rival fixers cross paths when they're both called in to help cover up a prominent New York official's misstep," reads an official synopsis of the new movie, which also stars Amy Ryan,Poorna Jagannathan, Richard KindandAustin Abrams. "Over one explosive night, they'll have to set aside their petty grievances — and their egos — to finish the job."

When the stars stepped out together for Wolfs' world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 1, Clooney joked to PEOPLE that "there's nothing good about" working with Pitt as he signed autographs on the red carpet.

"It's all a disaster," he jested, before adding more seriously, "It's fun to work with people you know really well."

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Wolfs is in theaters Sept. 20; the movie will begin streaming on Apple TV+ Sept. 27.

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