Hollywood star, American actor and director George Clooney said in an interview that the discussions he had with his wife Amal on the fate of the Parthenon Marbles while they were still dating helped forge a strong bond between them.
Speaking to the Observer last weekend, Clooney recalled the backlash he received from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was then mayor of London, when he argued in favor of the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.
His statement came while he was in the UK promoting his movie The Monuments Men in 2014.
Amal Clooney, then Alamuddin, had been hired as a lawyer to argue the Greek case and had discussed the issue extensively with Clooney, he revealed.
In October 2014, less than a month after her marriage, Amal Alamuddin-Clooney, along with her colleagues Geofrey Robertson, David Hill and Norman Palmer, visited Athens as the London-based lawyers firm was assigned to advice the Greek government how to claim the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum.
He might even yet one day become so well informed as to know the difference between Parthenon and Pantheon.