Actor George Clooney said that his decision calling for then-President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential campaign was based on his sense of “civic duty.”

“I don’t know if it was brave,” Clooney told CNN’s Jake Tapper in a preview of his The Lead interview airing Wednesday. “It was a civic duty. Because I found that people on my side of the street — and I’m a Democrat from Kentucky so I get it — when I saw people on my side of the street not telling the truth, I thought it was time.”