For decades, George Clooney was always very honest about how he had no desire to remarry or start a family. His girlfriends through that era tended to be a certain type as well – a string of C-listers who enjoyed the free clothes, vacations and access of “being George Clooney’s girlfriend,” with zero promises of any long-term future. Then Amal Almuddin came along and everything changed. Many have argued that George went looking for someone serious and accomplished after it became clear that his love life was a punchline for comedians like Amy Poehler and Tina Fey. That being said, I do think George and Amal are happy. I think she’s surprised by that more than him – she’s surprised that he’s actually a good husband and a hands-on father, and that their life together is pretty peaceful and undramatic. Anyway, George is promoting Midnight Sky and he talked a lot about his marriage and his kids.

Amal changed everything: “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. And then we had these two knuckleheads,” Clooney added of his children. “It is very fulfilling and something I wasn’t at all… didn’t see coming.”

They initially had zero marriage plans: “We never talked about marriage when we were dating. I asked her out of the blue, took her a long time to say yes. I was on my knee for like 20 minutes, I finally said, ‘Look, I’m gonna throw my hip out.’ We never talked about having kids, and then one day we just said, ‘What do you think?’ We go to the doctor and you do the ultrasound. They’re like, ‘You got a baby boy!’ and I was like, ‘Baby boy, fantastic!’ And they go, ‘And you got another one there.’ I was up for one. Again, I’m old. All of a sudden, it’s two. It’s hard to get me to not talk and I just stood there for like 10 minutes just staring at this piece of paper going, ‘What? Two?’ ”

Life during lockdown: “It’s been a while since I did 15 loads of laundry in a day and mopped floors and all these doors over here I stained… I always say I felt like my mother in 1964, because she had two kids and no help. I don’t know [how] she did it now, I have more sympathy for her now than ever.”

[From People]

Do you believe that Amal had no idea a proposal was coming? Do you think he just asked her out of the blue, with no conversation ahead of time about their future and all of that? I mean, on one side, when you know you know, and when you meet The One, a lot of sh-t does fall into place like that. But I also think George wants to sell this kind of romantic vision of his thing with Amal and I’m not 100% sure that was the reality. In any case, I enjoy this soft-dad version of George. I bet he is a good father, actually.

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