{"id":610683,"date":"2026-04-28T05:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610683\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T05:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T05:49:08","slug":"george-clooney-decries-political-violence-at-lincoln-center-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/610683\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney Decries Political Violence at Lincoln Center Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGeorge Clooney<\/a> took a moment to get political while he was honored with Film at Lincoln Center\u2019s 51st annual Chaplin award.<\/p>\n

\n\tClooney, who has long been one of Hollywood\u2019s most outspoken critics of\u00a0Donald Trump, struck a somber tone as he addressed these politically charged times.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the weekend, the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner was\u00a0evacuated after a gunman tried to storm the annual gala fundraiser event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI can\u2019t be here on a night like tonight and just ignore everything that\u2019s going on in the world,\u201d an emotional Clooney said from the stage. \u201cI disagree with everything that this administration stands for, but there\u2019s no place for the kind of violence we saw two nights ago in Washington, D.C. Nor is there a room for this kind of violence in Minnesota with Alex Pretti or Ren\u00e9e Good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tClooney wasn\u2019t explicitly critical of Trump, but he alluded to the extremism that critics argue has propelled the President\u2019s ascent.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt seems to me there\u2019s a struggle that has to be won against hatred and corruption and cruelty and violence,\u201d Clooney continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a struggle for the very soul of this republic because to foment hate and violence is to inherit the wind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tClooney made a push for unity, concluding that \u201cthe question is simply, what are we, as citizens of this great country, to do? And it is that answer in all of us, left, right and center, to build a more perfect union, heal our wounds and begin to truly make America great again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSam Rockwell, Stephen Colbert, Julianna Margulies and John Turturro were among the presenters of the honor, held each year at Lincoln Center\u2019s Alice Tully Hall.<\/p>\n

\n\tClooney was honored for his contributions to film and television, starting with his breakout role on \u201cER\u201d and continuing with films such as \u201cSyriana,\u201d \u201cO Brother Where Art Thou,\u201d \u201cUp in the Air\u201d and the \u201cOceans\u201d trilogy. His latest movie, \u201cJay Kelly,\u201d played at the New York Film Festival, which is hosted by Film at Lincoln Center.\u00a0In a lighter moment, Clooney referenced \u201cJay Kelly,\u201d in which he portrays an aging movie star who is feted at a glitzy event that\u2019s not dissimilar to the Chaplin Gala. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny. I did this scene in a movie last year,\u201d Clooney said. \u201cIt\u2019s way more touching the way it happens in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tClooney\u2019s work also recently extended to the stage, where he made his Broadway debut in \u201cGood Night, and Good Luck,\u201d a play based on his film of the same name. Clooney is also known for his humanitarian efforts, advocating for the First Amendment as well as the human-rights campaigns for the crises in Darfur in Sudan.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring his speech, Clooney borrowed a famous quote from Edward R. Murrow, whom he earned a Tony nomination for portraying in \u201cGood Night and Good Luck\u201d on Broadway: \u201cWe will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMurrow, of course, was a star anchor at CBS News. Clooney has been critical of Bari Weiss, the conservative commentator whom Paramount\u2019s new owner, David Ellison, installed at the top of the news division. Colbert, another staple of the CBS lineup who was recently ousted from the late-night anchor\u2019s chair, used his time at the microphone to take a dig at the network.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is an inspiring film,\u201d Colbert said of the 2005 movie, \u201cGood Night and Good Luck,\u201d which Clooney wrote and directed before it was adapted for the stage. \u201cIt has now been seen by millions around the world, and hopefully someday by CBS.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Clooney took a moment to get political while he was honored with Film at Lincoln Center\u2019s 51st…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,24194],"class_list":{"0":"post-610683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-george-clooney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}