George Clooney's son is the spitting image of him as a boy
George Clooney has revealed that his eight-year-old son Alexander's appearance is strikingly similar to the way he looked at that age.
George Clooney's son Alexander is a "cut and paste" of him.
The 64-year-old actor has twins Alexander and Ella, eight, with his wife Amal Clooney and explained that his son looks almost identical to him when he was the same age.
Speaking to People at the premiere of his new movie Jay Kelly at AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Thursday (23.10.25), George said: "My son looks exactly like I looked when I was his age, so it is sort of cut and paste in a way.
"I show him pictures of me when I was eight and he thinks they're pictures of him. It's pretty fun."
The Up in the Air star explained that he feels "very lucky" to get to spend time with his family as he grows older.
Clooney said: "I'm 64, so you look back at everything, because the looking forward is harder.
"But I'm in a pretty comfortable place in life. I like what I do for a living, I have great friends, I spend time with people that I love, and I've been able and lucky enough late in life to be able to spend time with my family."
George also revealed how he and human rights lawyer Amal have stopped visiting dangerous places since having children.
He explained: "Well, you have to be careful, right? You can't just go swinging as you used to. And Amal and I both had to change our goals on where we would go.
"I used to enjoy going in places that were dangerous. I liked going into the Nuba Mountains and Darfur and Abyei, and there was war zones. And I found it exhilarating. And Amal was in a bunker in Beirut for two years doing the court cases."
Clooney added: "We had to make decisions not to do that once we had kids. You had to change sort of what the rules were."
The Gravity star revealed earlier this month that he left Hollywood for France so his children could have a "fair shake" at life.
He told Esquire magazine: "You know, we live on a farm in France. A good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid I hated the whole idea of it.
"But now, for them, it’s like - they’re not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grown-ups and have to take their dishes in. They have a much better life.
"I was worried about raising our kids in LA, in the culture of Hollywood. I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life."
