‘Being a father at 56 will change a lot of things’ – Hollywood star George Clooney

For the first time since news broke that George and Amal Clooney, are having twins, the 55-year-old actor has finally broken his silence.

In an interview on French TV show “Rencontres de Cinema, Clooney said; ‘We are really happy and really excited. It’s going to be an adventure. We’ve sort of embraced it all with arms wide open.”

Clooney said his friends can’t help but tease him about becoming a dad later in life.

In his words, ‘my favorite part is, you know, all my friends who are my age, and I have many of them, they’re already done. Their kids are all grown up and away to college and they are laughing. We went out to dinner the other night, and it’s a table of eight guys and all their kids are away in college, and we are sitting there and they were all being very supportive, ‘Everything is going to be great, you’re going to love it,'”

He continued to say, ‘then it got really quiet, and they all just started making baby crying and the whole table just busted up laughing. So I’m feeling a bit better about being 56 by the time we have them. It’s going to change a lot of things but that’s OK, that’s life”.

 

Actor George Clooney and wife Amal are expecting twins

George Clooney and his wife Amal are expecting twins, actor Matt Damon said on Thursday, adding he was so thrilled for the high-profile couple that he “almost started crying” when he found out last fall.

Damon told Entertainment Tonight Canada that Clooney, 55, told him the news while they were filming a movie, and that his wife Amal Clooney, 39, was about eight weeks pregnant at the time.

“I’m like, ‘Are you out of your mind? Don’t tell anybody else, don’t tell anybody else, I mean, don’t you know the 12-week rule?’ Of course he doesn’t,” Damon said, laughing.

“Then four weeks later, ‘I’m like, ‘We’re good right, we’re good,’ so I’m thrilled for him.”

The pregnancy is the first for the Clooneys, who were married in a lavish Italian wedding ceremony in 2014 after a whirlwind romance.

Representatives for George and Amal Clooney did not immediately return Reuters’ requests for comment.

Damon praised Amal Clooney, an international human rights lawyer, calling her “a remarkable woman” and saying George Clooney had “hit the jackpot.” He added that the couple were “going to be awesome parents, those kids are lucky.”

Oscar-winning George Clooney is one of Hollywood’s top A-list actors and box office draws.

Last week, singer Beyonce caused a social media stir after announcing that she and husband, rapper Jay Z, were expecting twins.