George Clooney has said that his decision to base himself in France was informed by the desire to give his children a better start in life than if they had remained in the US.
The actor (64) – who has eight-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, with his wife, the human rights lawyer Amal Clooney – gave a lengthy interview to US Esquire magazine while staying at his Italian villa on Lake Como.
“We live on a farm in France,” he said. “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 [the twins], 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.
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