Matthew McConaughey may still be “measuring” a run for Texas governor, but you can count out George Clooney. In a new interview with the BBC’s Andrew Marr, the outspoken Oscar winner ruled out the possibility of one day running for office.
“No, because I would actually like to have a nice life,” Clooney, who played a politician in the 2011 film The Ides of March, said during an appearance of The Andrew Marr Show.
Clooney, who shares 4-year-old twins with wife Amal Clooney, noted that he’d prefer to spend his time doing “the things I love” — like playing basketball.
“I turned 60 this year and I had a conversation with my wife and we were working a lot, as we both do, and I said we have to think of these as the halcyon years,” he told Marr. “In 20 years, I will be 80 and that’s a real number. Doesn’t matter how much you work out, what you eat, you’re 80 and so I said we have to make sure we enjoy and live these years in the best possible way.”
Though he noted that “not working would be a bummer,” the Tender Bar director said he plans to scale back his workload, saying, “Instead of doing three jobs a year I’ll do one.”
And while that work won’t involve hitting the campaign trail — for himself, at least — Clooney couldn’t resist talking politics. During the interview he defended President Joe Biden‘s White House record and reflected on former President Donald Trump‘s impact.
“It’s like taking a battered child and thinking everything’s going to be OK his first day in school,” Clooney said of a post-Trump America. “There’s a lot of things that have to be repaired, there’s a lot of healing that has to happen, and it’s going to take time.”
Of the former POTUS, he said, “It’s so funny, because he was just this knucklehead. I knew him before he was a president. He was just a guy who was chasing girls. Every time you went out he’d be like, ‘What’s the name of that girl?’ That’s all he was.”
George Clooney rules out running for political office: ‘I would actually like to have a nice life’
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