Did George Clooney admit that the jokes about his private life bothered him?
I’ll admit it, I sort of glazed over when George Clooney started his promotional work for Tomorrowland last week, and every media outlet started running the same dozen quotes. It’s like Alamooney Mad Libs: “George Clooney confessed: he loves Amal’s _______ and her _____. He says he loves being married to her because _____.” The answers are 1) feet, 2) jawline, 3) free legal advice. But George is still talking and he’s trying to mix it up a little bit, although let’s be fair to him – how many different ways can he answer the “How has your life changed since getting married?” question? But when George spoke to E! News, I think he let a little truth slip out and it was very, very, VERY telling.
George Clooney is a very happy man. Like, very happy. Not only did his latest movie, Tomorrowland (in theaters on May 22), premiere at Disneyland yesterday, but along for the big event were his wife Amal Clooney and their niece Mia Alamuddin. The Oscar winner raved about married life.
“It’s fun,” he told me on the premiere’s blue carpet. “It’s really fun.”
The two were married seven months ago in Italy. He acknowledges that he was once the butt of many jokes about his long list of girlfriends and his apparent never-ending bachelorhood.
“There were all the jokes and the bits and I get all that stuff, but I couldn’t be happier right now,” said Clooney, who turned 54 last week. “I wake up in the morning and I think, ‘This couldn’t be better.'”
Amal, Clooney said, is getting adjusted to all the attention.
“Used to it as much as you can get used to it,” he said before pointing to the crowded carpet and saying, “I mean, this gets a little nutty. It’s tricky sometimes walking outside of a hotel and having people follow you and stuff. It’s hard to still practice law,” he added with a laugh. “Sometimes it is, but she’s handling it really well.”
What was that? “There were all the jokes and the bits and I get all that stuff…” It’s like he’s the dude version of Taylor Swift all of a sudden. Yes, there were jokes! Well-deserved jokes. Rather famously, the stinging joke Tina Fey and Amy Poehler made at the 2014 Golden Globes. But at some point, Clooney was less “America’s Most Eligible Bachelor” and more like “That Skeevy Old Dude Dating Glorified Escorts.” So yes, I’m sure that George loves Amal (or whatever). But I feel like he’s also acknowledging that marriage was the best play to make to change the conversation around his love life, and hopefully end the “jokes.”
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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