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George Clooney says his kids have 'much better' life being raised in France

Jami Ganz, New York Daily News on

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George Clooney says his young family have a “much better life” offline and in France, compared to what could have been in the United States.

The 64-year-old Oscar winner told Esquire in an interview published Monday that he previously “worried about raising” his and wife Amal’s 8-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, “in the culture of Hollywood.”

Had Clooney and the famed human rights lawyer, 47, opted to stay in L.A., he felt their kids “were never going to get a fair shake at life.”

“France — they kind of don’t give a s–t about fame. I don’t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi. I don’t want them being compared to somebody else’s famous kids,” said the “Good Night, and Good Luck” star, whose own father, Nick Clooney, was an anchorman and TV host in Ohio. The actor’s paternal aunt, meanwhile, was the late “Mambo Italiano” singer Rosemary Clooney.

The actor and his family have instead opted for a farm to call home, which was how Clooney himself spent “a good portion” of his childhood.

 

“As a kid I hated the whole idea of it,” he recalled. “But now, for them, it’s like — they’re not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grown-ups and have to take their dishes in.”

Clooney also discussed his summer 2024 New York Times op-ed, in which he called on then-President Biden to drop out of his bid for reelection, which he quickly did.

“I think people have heard enough from me,” Clooney said when asked if he’d ever write another one the next time Democrats find themselves at a crossroads. “I was doing it because I’d been a personal witness to things.”

The multi-hyphenate’s sprawling interview comes over a month after Clooney dropped out of the Venice International Film Festival, where he was slated to promote Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” a film about an aging movie star and his manager (Adam Sandler). A sinus infection and “doctor’s orders” reportedly forced Clooney to skip the starry pomp and circumstance.


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