George Clooney said being compared toHitler by the UK Prime MinisterBoris Johnson was "kind of great" because it brought him and his now-wifeAmal Clooney closer together.- Johnson made the comparison in 2014 after Clooney said the UK should return the Parthenon marble sculptures back to Greece.
- At the time, he was dating Amal who was coincidentally hired as a lawyer by the Greek government to argue the return of the sculptures.
- "Amal and I were secretly dating at the time. No one knew. There was all this uproar about what I'd said. And I was meeting Amal for dinner that night," he said.
In a recent interview with The Guardian, George Clooney recalled the time British Prime Minister Boris Johnson compared him to Hitler.
Back in 2014, Clooney was in the UK promoting his art theft thriller "The Monuments Men" when he said during an interview that he believed the British government should return the Parthenon marbles, which are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures on display at the British Museum, back to their native Greece.
In response, then-Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: "Someone urgently needs to restore George Clooney's marbles. This Clooney is advocating nothing less than the Hitlerian agenda for London's cultural treasures. He should stuff the Hollywood script and stick to history."
Naturally, Johnson's comments made headlines everywhere, but in his interview with The Guardian, Clooney said the comparison couldn't have been timed any better because he was secretly dating his now-wife Amal Clooney who had been hired as a lawyer by the Greek government to argue the case for the return of the sculptures.
"It was kind of great for me," Clooney said. "Amal and I were secretly dating at the time. No one knew. There was all this uproar about what I'd said. And I was meeting Amal for dinner that night." Clooney said that Amal then proceeded to arm him with all the information that he needed to school Johnson.
Clooney said: "She goes to me, 'Y'know I've worked on that case? So listen. Here's a lot of stuff you should say.' She told me about Unesco rulings. Gave me all this info. I was just loaded with facts. Fantastic!"
The 59-year-old then joked that he should thank Johnson for bringing him closer to his wife. "I'll send him a thank you note," he said. "And a comb," referencing the Prime Minister's trademark scruffy hair.
Later this month, Clooney is set to make his Netflix debut with "The Midnight Sky," which he both stars in and directs. Last week it was unveiled that the actor was hospitalized during the film's production with severe stomach pains after losing 28 pounds for his role.
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