Will Arnett, Clooney explained why it’s more important than ever to be politically active.
When asked by Bateman if he’s becoming hesitant to talk politics given the current landscape, Clooney said, “No I think it’s the exact opposite. There’s a line in the film I wrote,
Good Night and Good Luck, that [
Edward R. Murrow] says, where he goes, ‘This is no time for people who have opinions to be silent.’”
The actor continued, “There was a period of time a couple of years ago where the executive branch and the legislative branch and the judicial branch were all kind of dropping the ball in a way. In some ways you need the fourth estate to pick up. You need the news organizations and things like that to pick up the slack and they did. They did a pretty good job of holding people’s feet to the fire and the judicial branch actually came around eventually.”