SHAILENE Woodley has made George Clooney her role model and mentor

SHAILENE Woodley has made George Clooney her role model and mentor.
 
The 22-year-old actress played George’s troubled daughter in the 2011 hit The Descendants, and was left impressed with the 52-year-old activist actor.
 
Ever since, Clooney, has helped guide her with fatherly counsel as well as career advice and tips on roles, a source says.
 
“Shailene told George that she was inspired by his political activism,” an insider told American tabloid the National Enquirer.
 
“Now she has her own charitable foundation with her mom.”
 
Called All It Takes, the charity hopes to eradicate bullying, explained Shailene’s mother Lori Woodley, a Ventura County school counselor.
 
The organization takes middle school youngsters from different backgrounds to a camp where they learn to trust and accept one another despite their differences.
 
“If Shailene needs advice, she can always call George,” said the source.
 
“He’s only too happy to help. He told a pal, ‘She’s like the daughter I never had.’”
 
“He’s like my second dad. He’s got my back,” Woodley said of Clooney.
 
“I’ve never met somebody in the industry who’s more grateful, who pays it forward without talking about it in the press or speaking about it to anyone else.
 
“That to me was the best advice, just learning through his actions.
 
“He’s so down-to-earth, giving and generous, such a good guy. He’s a guy from Kentucky with a heart of gold who has been given a generous amount of wealth and power and used it in the most positive ways.
 
“To me the word ‘movie star’ is more than being an actor, more than being a source of entertainment.”