The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof recently took at trip to Chad with an unlikely sidekick: George Clooney. Kristof was skeptical at first, but Clooney — always the charmer! — won him over, and thus Kristof came to see the potential benefits of celebrity advocacy.

Here’s the buddy movie that resulted from their trip.

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