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George Clooney: 'The Ides of March is about my father'

George Clooney attends 'The Ides of March' Venice Premiere


George Clooney has revealed that his political drama The Ides of March was inspired by his journalist father's experiences.

Nick Clooney was a political columnist and news anchor for Channel 12, and ran for a Congressional seat in 2004. The Ides of March sees Clooney playing a governor running a campaign, with the help of an idealistic staffer played by Drive's Ryan Gosling.

The actor told Cincinnati Enquirer: "A lot of those ideas [in the film] were a big part of my growing up. If [my dad's] written about it, he's talked about it hundreds of times."

Clooney added that he had waited for the timing of the film to be right, as it had been written before Barack Obama's election in 2008.

He said: "When Obama won, even a lot of my conservative friends were in such a good mood that we thought we couldn't make a movie like this.

"Some people will think this is some long civics lesson... [but] it has very little to do with actual politics, and much more to do with what happens to any person who gets involved in the backrooms."

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Watch the trailer for The Ides of March below:

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