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My kids have strong personalities — George Clooney

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Lamar Ellis | 04 September, 2017, 07:26

Amal Clooney hasn't been seen out and about much lately - fair enough too, as she gave birth to twins Elle and Alexander on June 6 - but we were thrilled to see her back in the game at the Venice Film Festival.

Clooney said he had wanted to puncture rose-tinted views of a time in American history that is frequently seen as something of a golden age of prosperity and hope.

As to the character Damon plays: "It's kind the definition of white privilege when you are riding around your neighborhood on a bike covered in blood murdering people and the African-American family [who are his neighbors] is getting blamed for it", he said. The couple held hands as they posed for photographers at the premiere of his new movie "Suburbicon" on Saturday, September 2 in Venice, Italy.

Amal paired her red lipstick, on-point brows, and vintage curls with a gorgeous full-length lavender silk dress-with a hint of peach peeking through from the last layer of chiffon. He also has co-producing and co-writing credits on the film, alongside the Coen brothers.

But the promise that it is a "melting pot of diversity" is quickly and categorically disproved, and a burgeoning friendship between a white boy and his black neighbour sparks violence. George and Amal made their first red-carpet appearance at the 2017 Venice Film Festival. "There is a dark cloud hanging over our country right now".

The story's background is a neat, all-white, seemingly "perfect-picture 1950s (America) suburb, where the best and worst of humanity is reflected through the deeds of ordinary people", as the production described it.

The 56-year-old Hollywood heartthrob said: 'Matt's the greatest actor I've ever worked with.

"Now the perception of George is as big a movie star as you can get, an A-list director, an Oscar-winning producer", he continues. "I'm friends with a lot of those guys and I just think it's hell". "We were just two and now we're four".

"We wanted it to be amusing, we wanted it to be mean", he said. "But it is certainly angry, and it got angrier as we were shooting".

George Clooney has pried open a lot of curtains in his movies and takes a close peek - this time at the thorny topic of race - in his new movie, Suburbicon.

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