Director’s cry to withdraw odd clip of movie star (5)

'movie star' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'director's cry to withdraw odd clip' is the wordplay.
'director's cry' becomes 'cut' (I've seen this in another clue).
'to withdraw' says the letters should be written backwards.
'odd' indicates alternate letters.
The alternate letters of 'clip' are 'ci'.
'cut' written backwards gives 'tuc'.
'tuc'+'ci'='TUCCI'

'of' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?