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He's as much an activist as an actor. Danny Glover has used his celebrity status earned in box office hits such as the "Lethal Weapon" series, "The Color Purple" and "Dreamgirls" to fight injustice. At age 60 he continues to entertain and to educate.

In "Shooter," to be released March 23, he plays the ringleader of a super secret organization that wants to assassinate the president. Off screen, as chair of the board of the TransAfrica Forum, Glover works to educate the public about the effects of U.S. foreign policy in Latin America and Africa.

Q: You've been in the spotlight a long time. Have you enjoyed your fame?

A: Yes, I have. I've enjoyed it because it has brought me into contact with extraordinary people, both in the public arena and the private arena. I've enjoyed it because it has allowed me to talk about things that are important to me. I've enjoyed it because it's allowed me to take care of my grandparents, my dad, my sister, my brothers [and] send my nieces to colleges.

Q: You've worked with a lot of very famous actors. Were you ever intimidated by anyone?

A: Not intimidated. I think there's a certain anxiety that happens when you start on a set, you start some movie with somebody you admire. You have to calm yourself down. I don't know if that's the case with other actors, but I'm always anxious.

Q: Was there anyone in particular, who made you anxious?

A: Oh, I think only because it was my first major role: Sally Field in "Places in the Heart." Let's see, you know, it's hard to kind of, like, remember because you don't think about those things now, you know? At this point in your life.

Q: At this point you are probably the one intimidating.

A: [Laughs.] Oh, I would think not.

Q: The movie "Shooter" brings to mind the conspiracy theories surrounding President Kennedy's assassination. Do you think there was a cover up?

A: We don't know. We are not aware of all the kinds of connective dynamics around a particular event. So the question becomes, you know, not only why he was killed, but what happened as a result of his death. How that pattern exists not only in this country but in other countries. If he was kidnapped or taken by a group of people and murdered by a group of people connected to the CIA or whatever, then you would have said "OK." But the idea of a lone gunman ... seems a little bit farfetched.

Q: Hollywood often depicts the government as having these dark secrets and secret organizations beyond the FBI and CIA.

A: There is a war that happened over 25 years ago that very few Americans paid much attention to in Angola. A civil war that was fueled by other forces. Now, I don't know what those dark forces were, or what their relationship was to the CIA or the FBI. There's a lot of stuff that happens, you know ... it happens in a relationship intended to get the job done.

Q: Africa seems to be having a lot of conflict.

A: I mean internal conflicts, but you know in the '70s there was a wave of dictatorships and overthrows of the popular government, democracies in Latin America. Look what happened in Central America, in Nicaragua, in Guatemala, in El Salvador. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost in those conflicts. There's a lot of stuff that happens, and it's not going to be reported on Fox news. You are not going to get the information out of the normal sources of corporate media.

Q: You've been a political activist a long time. Have you seen your efforts make a difference?

A: Well, my efforts are to get people engaged. To talk about how people mobilize themselves, whether people mobilize themselves in the system of apartheid. I happened to be a part of that as early on as the early '70s -- 20 years before it actually ended. I was fortunate to be born at a time when I could see, yeah, something happened -- the system of apartheid ended. As Dr. King says, "No lie lasts forever."

Q: Do you have a favorite candidate for president yet?

A: There are several people that I have a lot of respect for. I spent some time working on a campaign for hotel workers called Hotel Workers Rising with John Edwards. I spoke with him, and I liked a lot of what he had to say.