Actor George Clooney published an open letter in The Guardian Friday explaining why he wouldn’t give an interview to the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, who are currently taking over the publication’s website to cover the March for Our Lives rally for gun control on Saturday, March 24.
“Amal and I are 100% behind you and will be marching in DC on the 24th, but we both feel very strongly that this is your march. Your moment. Young people are taking it to the adults and that has been your most effective tool,” Clooney wrote. “The fact that no adults will speak on the stage in DC is a powerful message to the world that if we can’t do something about gun violence then you will.”
He went on to tell the students they “make me proud of my country again.”
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