“I don’t have to check in to make sure and I don’t have to compromise,”
Clooney added, “I think it’s a lot easier than running for office. I
don’t have any interest in that.”
Clooney last week also testified about Sudan to a US Senate foreign relations
committee hearing and raised the issue with President Barack Obama who
invited him to the State Dinner given in David Cameron’s honour.
Clooney said that he had learned long ago from his father – a veteran
newscaster from the 1970s – of the power of celebrities to trump real news,
after listening to his father complain how his stories were knocked off the
schedules by Elizabeth Taylor, the megastar of the day.
He recalled his original decision to take up the Darfur issue, back in 2006
when he made the first of several visits to the region, most recently
witnessing a rocket attack on villagers.
“I said [to my father] remember when all your stories used to get bumped?”
he said. “So let’s go to Darfur, you’ll be the newsman and I’ll be Liz
Taylor.”