George Clooney is re -visiting the journalist champion in the Broadway version of “Good Night, and we wish you success”

New York — New York (AP) – George Clooney made waves in July when Joe Biden called for a presidential race, pointing to the decrease in ability. For Clooney, there was no choice to stay silent.

“I grew up to say the truth and say the truth means saying when it is uncomfortable,” the actor and actor tells the great democratic supporter Associated Press.

There was an inevitable violent reaction – just as there was a return when he was described as a traitor to speak against the invasion of Iraq – but Clooney took visits.

He says: “Saying the truth to power or taking such opportunities – we have seen it on our history.” “We were here and escaped these things and we will survive.”

Clooney’s position on the truth to strength takes another step this spring, as it appears for the first time in Broadway, where he tells the story of legendary correspondent Edward R. Moro in adaptation to his movie “Good Night, and Good Luck”. The offers begin on March 12.

Moro, who died in 1965, is one of the architects of the American broadcasting news, and perhaps the greatest moment was opposing Senator Joe McCarthy, who was crazy with greatness with a mockery of a communist threat in the fifties.

“This is a story about who we are in our best, when we hold our feet over the fire, when we check and balance ourselves,” says Clooney. “What is frightening now and the difference between Moro’s time is that we now decided that the truth is negotiable.”

In the release of the movie-which Clooney participated in writing with Grant Heslov- the role of Murrow went to David Stratehairn and Clooney, where Fred Friendly played his role in CBS; This time, Clooney takes Moro cloak. When he and a recipient read the theatrical investors, he just played Morrow and the financiers agreed to sink their money in the play – provided that he stayed in this role.

As in the film, the operating version will have shots from the real McCarthy on the screens and the theater will resemble a news room with several dozens of old screens that mix old and new shots.

Moving to Broadway is logical because many auditors in the movie said they feel very like them like the play. In fact, it was originally conceived as a direct TV movie, an idea that was moved after Justin Timberlake of Janet Jackson’s nipple at the 2004 Super Bowl show and fear of any idea of ​​the live network events.

“It is an incredible literary play,” says David Kromer, director of Tony. It is full of discussion. It is full of very complex and complex arguments about is this the right thing to do? Is this the right thing to do now? What happens when we do this? How do we say this? “

Oscar -winner Clooney twice returns to Moro at a time when journalists are in fire from the new American administration and denying them to reach the lack of follow -up points in the White House.

“We haven’t decided to restart or do the play for any real political reasons,” says Heslov, a Clooney collaborator who is also playing in Broadway. “It turns out that the environment may be mature.”

Moro had a great presence at the Clooney house. His father, Nick Clooney, the veteran journalist, worked as a TV news broadcaster and a host in a variety of cities including Cincinnati, Sol Lake City and Los Angeles. He also wrote a column in a newspaper in Cincinnati and studied the press at the American University.

“I am a journalist, a suitable journalist, a man who tells the truth. Clooney says:” My father there is still fighting the good battle. “I believe in him. I believe in the full idea of ​​how this works. “

Clooney is part of a group of ancient warriors in Hollywood that reaches Broadway this season, a list that includes Denzel Washington, Jake Gilnah, Keno Reeves, Robert Downey Junior, Jim Parsons, Sarah Snok and John Moliani.

Clooney insisted before he did not want the highest paid actor in Broadway. He reflected the time he was charged with his home and paid himself a salary of only one dollar to finance the film version of “Good Night and Sweat Luck”.

“For me, it is like, Patti Lubon pushed more than anyone in Broadway. Paying someone pays his dues. He says:” He should not be someone who does his first play in Broadway. “I can’t do that. I don’t want to be part of that. It is not logical to me. “

The box office to get a ticket to see it in Winter Garden is hot even before the inspections start, but Clooney deviates from it to Murrow – it’s not me, as he suggests, it’s the character he plays.

He says: “Edward Moro’s words are words that calm us down. They are ointment for madness. I think people are excited to be in a room and share some of these conversations.”

Clooney has not done a complete play since he got his stock card in 1986 in Chicago as a comic comfort in “Vicious”, about the Punk Sid Vicious icon. “Most of the team members I work with were not born when I did my last play. It is frightening.”

He thought he had missed his chance in Broadway, who is first -class in the list of Actors bucket. He is 63 years old now, which means his family uproot for several months.

“I have succeeded in my career. I do not say that I did not succeed, but I did not do anything in Broadway and I thought it may be too late,” he says.

“I showed some of the plays that I did not think I was right, and I thought if I was going to do it, I must do something I was right. This was an opportunity where I thought,” Well, I know how to tell this story. I may not do a great job with it. As you know, I may really deal with it, but I know what is required of the thing. “