George and Amal Clooney say they’ve “never had an argument” in their 10-year marriage, but George now admits that, had the two met in his younger years, the actor’s ego and “anger” may have gotten in the way of their romance.
In a Nov. 2 interview with CBS News’ Sunday Morning, journalist Seth Doane talked to the Oscar-winning actor about aging, vanity, and his relationship with his wife, 47-year-old lawyer and human rights activist Amal Clooney.
Clooney, 64, previously told CBS Mornings host Gayle King that he has never argued with Amal—a statement many responded to with skepticism. While Clooney acknowledged to Doane on Sunday that people got “ticked off” at this claim, he’s finally elaborating on his secret to a squabble-free relationship: getting older.
The actor admitted that, in his younger years, he was simply more irritable. “I think I would have found things to, you know, stick my chest out about,” Clooney said, “that I can now go, ‘It doesn’t matter. I don’t care.’”
At 64, the father of two now says he feels “more grounded” and less reactive, and attributes his famously fightless marriage to maturing as a person. “When you’re younger, you want to be right about everything—‘Don’t paint that color wall!’” he said. “I’m at this point in life where if she wants to paint a wall red, I don’t care. You get to a point in life where you just go, ‘Well, why would that be a discussion or an argument?’”
Clooney did not run out of nice things to say about the “extraordinary mother of” his two children, calling her “the most incredible beauty in the world.”
When Doane reminded the Ocean’s Eleven star that during his bachelor years, he boasted about never wanting to get married or have children. “The truth is [that] I met this incredible woman,” Clooney responded, chuckling. “Amal is the most extraordinary human I’ve ever met.”
Amal’s in-house hypeman went on to call his wife, whom he was introduced to through a mutual friend in 2013, “a force for good,” as well as “beautiful, and funny, and [with] the greatest sense of humor.”
“Not being married to her would’ve been a disaster,” Clooney admitted.
When asking about how the couple parents their 8-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, Clooney joked, “You’ll have to ask our kids in about 10 years when they’re in therapy, saying that ‘our parents weren’t great.’” On a more serious note, Clooney said he and Amal are present parents of “very happy kids,” and that he often drives the children to school.
Clooney’s marriage is not the only thing changing with age. In the same CBS News Sunday Morning interview, he reported noticing many changes in his body, but admitted that he no longer cares about his appearance. “If you’re hanging on to any kind of vanity at 64 years old… you’re chasing your tail, man. It’s going to bite you,” he said.
Although the actor says he and his wife lead “very different lives” due to their respective careers, with hers typically skewing more political than his by default, Clooney is no stranger to controversy. In the Sunday Morning interview, he also took time to respond to Hunter Biden’s criticism over his contentious op-ed in the New York Times, which called for Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential election race.
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