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Amid interview junkets to promote his new film Suburbicon, director George Clooney has spoken about his new twins, Alexander and Ella, who he welcomed into the world with wife Amal in June. While children was not part of his life plan (“When Amal and I met and when we got married it became really clear we were lucky… It seemed selfish not to share some of that luck with some other people,”), the 56-year-old is beyond smitten.
“[Alexander] weighs three pounds more than his sister…he’s a pig this kid” Clooney told Extra. “They’re born with personalities that they’ll have their whole lives. Ella is very elegant and dainty, she has these big beautiful eyes, she looks like Amal. And he’s just a thug, he’s a fat little boy, he laughs louder than everyone in the room, it’s the funniest thing.”
The conversation then switched to the topic every entertainment journalist in the world is covering – Harvey Weinstein. “My wife is a very smart, very together, very accomplished human rights lawyer and she said there have been times in my life, in the law community I had to tell someone to knock it off, so it happens everywhere,” he said.
“There has to be some good that comes out of all of this and the good is going to have to be that women feel safe to speak up, that they are believed and hopefully be enough that it scares any man who would behave like that from doing it. Let’s stop having meetings in hotel rooms, you can have it in the restaurant downstairs.”
“This wasn’t just guys hitting on girls, this is assault… If we don’t address this and really go after Harvey, it will come back.”
Clooney’s new crime thriller Suburbicon – which stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore – is in Australian cinemas October 26.
