{"id":879296,"date":"2026-09-04T04:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879296\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:46:12","slug":"george-clooney-wife-kids-star-admits-the-real-reason-he-gave-up-this-hollywood-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879296\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney wife, kids: Star admits the real reason he gave up this Hollywood gig"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Clooney<\/a> has been uncommonly open about his wife Amal Clooney and their two children, twins Alexander and Ella, at Venice Film Festival this week.<\/p>\n

He even confessed the real reason he gave up directing Hollywood films was to focus on his family.<\/p>\n

\"George<\/p>\n

George Clooney couldn\u2019t stop gushing about his wife Amal Clooney and their two children this week.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The usually private star, 65, shared a rare insight into his approach to fatherhood during a press conference on Wednesday (local time).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only reason I\u2019m not directing, which I love doing, is because I have two nine-year-old kids,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Clooney explained that unlike acting in a movie, where he only has to be on set for his scenes, directing requires him to be on-site and away from his kids for up to a year at a time.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just not a sacrifice he\u2019s willing to make anymore.<\/p>\n

The star of the Oceans franchise was also caught on camera reminiscing on his wedding day with Amal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have had a love story with Venice for 30 years and, in fact, was married here,\u201d he told the crowd of journalists when asked about his best moments in the city. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo I would say that my greatest moment here was obviously my wedding, because I would get in a lot of trouble if I don\u2019t say that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clooney turned the conversation to Amal again when asked how he planned to spend his down-time after his Festival obligations that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to go find a fun place to have dinner, my wife and I. She\u2019s going to be wearing a very nice dress so we\u2019ll have to be careful where we go,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n

\"Amal<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Icon admitted he\u2019s stepped away from directing to focus on family.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

The ER star continued to mention wife Amal and their children throughout the press conference, even between hard-hitting topics like climate change, the state of the US<\/a>, and AI in the film industry.<\/p>\n

In a masterclass on Thursday (local time), he shared rare insights into the humanitarian work he does with Amal, who is herself a humanitarian lawyer.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad<\/a> used to say to me, \u2018I don\u2019t give a s–t what you do in life. I don\u2019t care. You have one responsibility, and that is to challenge people with more power than you and to defend people with less power than you,\u2019\u201d Clooney said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow I try to do that. I fail often, but I try to do that. I\u2019ve made it part of my life, and so Amal, my wife, and I spend a good portion of our lives trying to follow those same rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Actor<\/p>\n

\u201cI got successful at 33, not at 23,\u201d Clooney said. He felt lucky for it.\u00a0Corbis via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He also touched on his childhood in Kentucky, learning from his TV anchor mother, the perks of finding fame later in life, and the death of his sister from cancer last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe died very quickly, and I was with her when she died,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there was this feeling, being with her, holding her hand when she died, understanding how brief all of this is. It was minutes ago that she and I were little kids together, minutes ago we were holding hands as little kids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Clooney has been uncommonly open about his wife Amal Clooney and their two children, twins Alexander and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-879296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}