Clooney for a Cause
George Clooney thinks that being a true-to-life diplomat is not as fun as it seems.
The A-lister discloses in the newest issue of British men’s glossy Zoo Weekly how he initiated himself looking down at bigger than life machine gun-toting kid soldiers during a recent trip to Darfur.
“There were all these young kids with AK-47s,” Clooney said. “They went through the car and took what they wanted. We hid all our tapes and stuff, but they pointed the guns at us and stole what they could. It happens all the time.”
The Leatherheads star serves as a United Nations Messenger of Peace to call attention to the refugee crisis plaguing the war-torn region of Sudan (when he’s not acting, directing or hanging out with Sarah).
In the interview, Clooney mentioned that the militia members never fully recognized just who they were dealing with as the Academy award winner and his posse were driving through a checkpoint.
“They don’t have great TV out there!”
George Clooney produced and narrated 2007’s docu-film A Journey to Darfur, which records his tour joined by Nick Clooney, his TV-anchor father, featuring camps in Darfur and Chad in 2006.
Throughout their stay, they meet with the survivors of the genocide to hail interests to the thousands of Africans who’ve passed away in the past half a decade as the consequence of synchronized assaults by the Sudanese government-backed Arab militias known as the Janjaweed.
Clooney has continually used his status to lobby the U.S. and its Western associates to intensify efforts to force Sudan to stop the killings and restore peace.
“There are innocent people there being put in harm’s way in the most brutal of fashions,” he added. “The world needs to step up. People need to come forward and say ‘genocide is taking place.‘”
At some point in his Zoo Q&A, the actor offered some info concerning how he really feels being one of Hollywood’s most attractive leading men.
“Well, I do have good hair!” he joked, before dishing his sex-symbol status. “To be honest, being the fantasy guy is dangerous. If people saw me up close, they’d soon change their minds! Plus people’s fantasy guys change every 15 minutes, so you take those compliments knowing that it will change fairly quickly.”
Girls, brace yourselves.
Clooney then confessed to having “many failings,” possibly the most infamous for being a “terrible dancer.”
He also rebuffed gossip info that his Ocean’s buddy, Brad Pitt, and his better half Angelina Jolie requested him to be godfather to their unborn child.
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