Renee Zellweger was so desperate to work with her pal George Clooney, she would have done anything to be a part of his new movie Leatherheads - even joining the catering crew.

Clooney directs and stars in the new romantic comedy alongside Zellweger, which is centred on a 1920s American football team. And the Bridget Jones’s Diary star admits she would have accepted any job on the film just to "live the dream."

She tells American magazine InStyle, "I heard George was making a movie and I said, ‘When?’ If he had asked me to make peanut-butter sandwiches for the catering, I would have said, ‘Crunchy or smooth?’ "It’s never less than great with him. And poor me, I had to watch guys throw a football all day … Talk about living the dream."