‘I feel like my mother in 1964’

Make no mistake: Movie star George Clooney has completed his transition to family man George Clooney.

“I cut my hair and cut my kids’ hair and I wipe, vacuum, do laundry and do the dishes every day,” Clooney said. GQ in a virtual interview for his Year icon problem. “I feel like my mother in 1964. You know, I understand why she burned her bra.

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The obvious truth from the rest of the interview, however, is that he is perfectly happy to be back home with Amal, his wife since 2014, and their 3-year-old twins Alexander and Ella. While Clooney works in a house he bought in 1995, he is editing his next film, Midnight skyand texting with friends in a group chat, he doesn’t do much during the pandemic other than spending time with his loved ones. He has to be careful, because one of the twins, Alexander, has asthma and Clooney is now 59 years old.

This is not the George Clooney of 25 years ago.

“I was like, ‘I never get married. I will not have children, ”said Clooney, who divorced her compatriot Talia Balsam in 1993, after four years of marriage. He remembered thinking, “I’m going to work, I have good friends, my life is busy, I’m fine.” I didn’t know how empty it was until I met Amal. And then everything changed. And I was like, ‘Oh, actually, it’s been a huge empty space.’ “

Family life gave him a purpose.

“Because I had never been in a situation where someone else’s life was infinitely more important to me than mine. You know? “Said Clooney.” And then nail on two other people, who are small and need to be fed … “

Clooney put it this way: “For 36 years I was the type that if a kid popped up and started crying, I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? And now suddenly I’m the guy with the kid, you know?

As in, its old bar and office has been transformed into a nursery. He was delighted when little Alexander accidentally walked into the room during the interview. Elder Clooney asked him to say something in Italian, as Alexander is already fluent in the language spoken near one of his family’s homes. And he did!

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Clooney also opened up on why he leads more and acts less these days, citing reasons other than wanting to spend more time at home.

“I feel like over the last 10 or 15 years I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve been like, ‘I can’t sit down and try to prove to people what I can do as a as an actor. ‘ I’m much more comfortable in my own skin, ”he says. “When you’ve been wrestling for like 12 years as an actor, when you come in, all you want to do is prove that you can act and whatever you can do and show all your stuff. And then as you get down to it you kind of say, ‘Well, I don’t feel like I have to prove anything anymore.’

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