Reduce dal film Jay Kellya film presented at the last Venice Film Festival and recently landed on Netflix, where she starred alongside Adam Sandler, George Clooney he just achieved a big change in his life and that of his family. The actor, whose career was launched by the series E.R.in fact he obtained the award together with his wife Amal Clooney and their two twin children French citizenship. The news, as reported by the The Guardianwas confirmed by a decree that was published on Official Journal of France. George Clooney, Amal and the two eight-year-old twins now all have dual citizenship.
Obtaining French citizenship, after all, was a dream that George Clooney had already expressed over the past few weeks, when he had the opportunity to applaud the French laws on protection of privacywhich provide the Hollywood star with considerable protection from the invasion of the paparazzi, who have often tried to obtain stolen shots of the children. During an interview with RTL RadioGeorge Clooney had in fact declared: “They don’t take pictures of children here. There are no paparazzi hiding at the school gates. And this, for us, is the most important thing.” During the same interview, then, George Clooney also showed his love for “French culture” and for a language that he still hasn’t managed to learn well despite “400 days of courses”.
However, French citizenship is not a real surprise for the couple, whose ties to the European world and away from the United States are well known. Amal Clooney is a lawyer of Anglo-Lebanese origins who speaks French very fluently and who owns a historic home in England. George Clooney, as he is known, owns a villa on Lake Como, where he also shot the film Ocean’s Twelve, purchased way back in 2002. The couple also has an ex wine estate in the south of France, a short distance from Brignoles, a municipality in the Var department, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. And this very estate is the home that George Clooney called the place”where we are happiest“. George Clooney, therefore, pursued the ambition of obtaining French citizenship to protect the privacy of his children and distance himself from the paparazzi, but also to have the opportunity to spend more time in a State that has already made him very happy.
The example of George and Amal Clooney could soon be followed by the director too Jim Jarmush, winner of the Golden Lion at the same Venice Film Festival where it was presented Jay Kellywho is considering applying for French citizenship and fleeing the United States.
