George Clooney Jokes About Wife Amal Clooney Being Out Of His League
George Clooney made a rare comment about his relationship with his wife, Amal Clooney.
The American filmmaker and actor spoke with Page Six at a special "The Boys in the Boat" screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. When asked if he felt he was "punching above" his weight when he married his spouse, George admitted that it was a common understanding and jokingly confirmed that the accomplished barrister was out of his league.
"Yes, and I still do [think that]," the "Ocean's Eleven" star said. "Everyone would say the same thing."
George, 62, and Amal, 45, got married in 2014. They welcomed their 6-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, in 2017. Amal has held various appointments with the U.K. government and the United Nations. She's also an adjunct professor of law at Columbia Law School. The couple co-founded the human rights organization the Clooney Foundation for Justice in 2016.
It wasn't the first time George joked about his relationship with his wife in recent weeks. On Dec. 11, Amal joined her husband for the premiere of "The Boys in the Boat" in Los Angeles. George directed the movie, and in an interview at the event, he seemingly joked about her lack of skills in the kitchen.
"My wife, who is a brilliant lawyer -- she's one of the great advocates of the world; she takes on ISIS and all these things -- but I better be doing the cooking, or we will all die," he told "Extra."
He also spoke about Amal's stunning looks. The lawyer turned heads in her Atelier Versace yellow gown and Cartier jewels at the event.
"She cleans up," he said. "I'm always embarrassed because I'm wearing something that I've worn, like, 1,000 times."
He joked that he was "slighted" by all the attention his wife was getting, claiming that he was reduced to being her plus-one. He also mentioned that at one point, he had to introduce himself as "Amal Clooney's husband."
Meanwhile, in the same interview with Page Six, Clooney spoke about his newly directed project based on the true story of the 1936 Olympic U.S. rowing team that competed in the Berlin Olympics and won, and what drew him to it. According to him, he liked "Depression-era stories" because his parents were "from that exact same" period.
"The idea [that] these guys needed to do it as opposed to wanting to do it," he explained. "And I like the idea that somehow, along the way, they ended up being the greatest rowers in the world when they were just lumberjacks, which is kind of cool."
"The Boys in the Boat" is already out in theaters.
