George Clooney

The Hollywood heart-throb directs, produces and stars in C4’s six-part adaptation of Joseph Heller’s classic world war Two novel, Catch-22. Here, George, 58, tells us more

What did think when you first read the script?

I loved it and thought you don’t read many that are this good. it’s a difficult book to crack, but the writers figured out a way to interpret it that we didn’t think was possible.

Tell us about Christopher Abbott, who plays the lead John Yossarian…