Movie star George Clooney has stunned fans by revealing he had a loaded gun held to his chest during a recent humanitarian trip to Sudan.
The Ocean's Eleven star has been a longtime advocate for Sudanese refugees desperate for an end to decades of civil war, and he has often put his own welfare in jeopardy to visit the war-torn nation and shoot footage of the refugees at peril.
But Clooney admits one particular trip almost cost him his life when his vehicle was stopped by gun-toting teen soldiers.
During an appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman on Wednesday (05Oct11), he said, "It's not safe... I've (been) taken out of my truck with my father once and a couple people we were travelling with. I think there was only four of us there at the time, you know, they have check points and things. And you're in the middle of nowhere...
"Everybody's got a gun, and this 13-year-old kid brought me out, sat us down and put a gun to my chest, and was standing there. I had not been to that region and sort of was a little off-put by having a gun put underneath my chin.
"And then the guy who was with us, who's been there like 40 times, just grabbed the gun and said, 'Don't do that, absolutely not'. He treated him like a 13-year-old kid, you know, and then he (the kid) was like, 'Oh I'm sorry.' And then I felt really, really small (for not having done something brave)."
This film feels kind of like what you'd expect from a collision between George Clooney...
In the quiet, seemingly perfect land of suburbia, a businessman named Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon)...
A sleekly made thriller with a sparky sense of humour, this is also a rare...
An intelligent ode to a time when Hollywood made wildly inventive movies without pressure from...
Ever since his wonderful appearance in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, we've been waiting...
If you're looking for news on what stocks to buy, you switch on the TV...
Eddie Mannix is a fixer who works in Hollywood where he tames celebrities and keeps...
Big summer blockbusters are so rarely optimistic that it's tricky to know how to take...
Casey Newton loves inventing and all things scientific, but she's definitely got a problem with...
Casey Newton is a gifted budding scientist, though has occasionally found herself in trouble with...
When young science enthusiast Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) fell into a spot of trouble with...
For an amazing true story performed by such a strong A-list cast, this is an...
Tracy Letts adapts his own prize-winning play into a blistering depiction of one of cinema's...
'The Monuments Men' is based on the true story of seven unlikely museum directors, curators...