Amal Clooney Reveals How She, Husband George Clooney Balance Their Careers, Family
KEY POINTS
- George Clooney's wife Amal joined him at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Tender Bar" Sunday
- The human rights lawyer revealed they're able to balance their careers and personal lives due to the support they give each other
- Amal joked that her husband has been "teaching pranks" to their twin children during the pandemic
George Clooney's wife Amal has revealed how she and her husband are able to balance their careers and their personal lives.
Amal joined Clooney on the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie "The Tender Bar" in Los Angeles Sunday. Clooney directed the drama, which stars Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe and Christopher Lloyd.
In an exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight, the couple was asked about how they manage to juggle raising their 4-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, with their busy careers. According to the human rights attorney, having her husband's support is a big help.
"It's probably like many families where both parents work," Amal told the outlet. "I'm lucky because I have a very supportive partner. And we do move around a lot, but we manage it, and I feel very lucky."
The couple was also asked about how they've been holding up over the past year and a half with their two children.
"It was fine. You just feel so bad for the world and all of that, you know? But our kids are 4 and they were two and a half when it started so you know, they weren't missing out on much out in the world," Clooney shared. "So, you know, I didn't have to teach them trigonometry at home."
According to Amal, the actor has been a "great" teacher to their kids.
As for what exactly Clooney has been teaching Ella and Alexander, his lawyer wife joked, "He's mainly teaching pranks for the time being. But we'll see if it develops."
"Well, I think those can really pay off over time," Clooney chimed in.
During an interview with AARP The Magazine earlier this year, Clooney spoke fondly about his family, including his exchange of letters with his wife and what kept him busy during the pandemic. He said his activities included wood staining the entire interior, exterior and furniture of their home and sewing his wife and their twin children's clothes.
"I do a lot of sewing the kids' clothes and my wife's dress that tore a couple of times," he said. "I was a bachelor for a long time and didn't have any money, and you have to learn how to repair things.”
According to the Oscar winner, he and Amal have made a point of writing letters over the years.
"Every year before we had kids we wrote each other a letter," he shared. "And now we write the kids letters and put them away and put dates on them and store them, so that when they're of an age, they'll have a stack of letters to know where we were at a very given moment in time and what was happening in the world and what was happening in our family and how much we love them. Even in lockdown, we’ll still write each other letters, probably, once every month or two."
Clooney previously confessed that he never thought that he would marry again and have a family of his own after his 1993 divorce from Talia Balsam, but his views changed after he met Amal.
"There is no question that having Amal in my life changed everything for me. It was the first time that everything that she did and everything about her was infinitely more important than anything about me," he said on "CBS Sunday Morning."
Clooney's "The Tender Bar" hits select theaters on Dec. 17 and Amazon Prime Video on Jan. 7.
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