Clooney: Before our twins, I’d lost hope of being a father
GEORGE CLOONEY has revealed he had given up on becoming a father until he met his wife Amal, saying he had accepted his life would be focused on his career.
The 56-year-old had twins Alexander and Ella with the human rights lawyer Amal, 39, three months ago.
The couple, who married in 2014, live in Los Angeles.
“I didn’t think it was going to happen for me,” he told the Daily Mail.
“I thought my life would be focused on my career, not relationships, and I’d sort of accepted that.
“And then I met Amal and I thought, ‘Well, I have this incredible relationship, this is wonderful.’ And then. . . all of a sudden we have these two knuckleheads around who make me laugh every day.”
As an older father, Clooney said, all he could do was “play catch up” and hope he is able to chase his children around when they are older.
He said that the experience did not come as a complete shock because all of his friends have children and he is godfather to a number of them.
More of a surprise, he said, was the fact that having twins was more than twice as much work.
He conceded that it was his wife Amal, who had borne the brunt of that, saying the twins showed very little interest in anyone but their mother Amal, who he praised for juggling their demands so adeptly.
Speaking candidly about how fatherhood has changed him, Clooney joked he also cries “four times a day” from tiredness.
The actor was speaking at the Toronto Film Festival, where he is promoting his new film Suburbicon, and revealed it was the first time he had been away from the twins since their birth.
Ella, he said, is “feminine” and has her mother’s eyes, while Alexander is far bigger than his sister, like a “moose”.