George Clooney proved himself ever the gentleman as he held an umbrella to protect stunning wife Amal from the rain at a special screening of his new movie The Boys In The Boat in London on Sunday.
The Hollywood megastar, 62, who directed the period drama, ensured his other half was protected from the downpour as she took to the red carpet in a chic black ensemble.
Amal, 45, was the epitome of sophistication as she posed up a storm in a sculpted velvet bodice which teased a glimpse of her toned and trim midriff.
The beauty, who shares six-year-old twins Alexander and Ella with her husband, completed the look with a fitted pencil skirt and stylish stilettos.
Amal opted for glamorous make-up and a bright red lip while letting her glossy brunette tresses tumble past her shoulders.
Meanwhile George cut a suave figure in a tailored grey suit which he wore over a crisp white shirt worn open at the collar.
The movie is based on Daniel James Brown’s 2013 novel The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and follows the story of the USA’s rowing team.
Like the book, the film will also follow the men’s financial struggles during the Great Depression.
The offical synopsis reads: ‘A 1930s-set story centered on the University of Washington’s rowing team, from their Depression-era beginnings to winning gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics’.
The cast includes Joel Edgerton, Sam Strike, Jack Mulhern as well as Fantastic Beasts’s Callum Turner.
Callum, who plays Joe Rantz in the movie, told Digitalspy how the cast learned to row and trained for six weeks before filming began.
Saying: ‘We’d push ourselves and push each other to go as fast as we can’.
It comes after George recently opened up about his children and revealed that he and his wife have been exposing them to rock music.
Amal told Access Hollywood that her handsome husband has ‘started playing heavy metal music, actually.’
George added, ‘The kids are listening to heavy metal. They’re headbangers.
‘It’s not fully heavy metal, it’s just heavy enough that they can bang their heads.’
Last month Fran Drescher revealed what George said to her after SAG-AFTRA strike finally ended.
The actress, 66, who is the president of the union, told Extra’s Billy Bush how shocked the Batman star was to learn she had received the deal she did from studios.
‘George Clooney said, “I would have bet my house and lost that you couldn’t get the deal that you got, that you wouldn’t have gotten past a billion dollars.” And that just made me so happy,’ she said.
She also received a call from Tyler Perry. ‘I’m so, so proud of you,’ she recalled him telling her.
Other big names to contact Drescher were Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Reynolds, Laura Dern, and Kerry Washington.
She also heard from Bradley Cooper, who recalled the kindness she showed him when he was just a hotel employee showing the then-Nanny star to her room.
‘Bradley Cooper… He said to me that many, many years ago, when I was still on The Nanny and he was working at a hotel… and he maybe brought my bags up to my room with me and we talked the whole way up and he said, “I never, ever forgot how kind you were, how much you made me feel seen, and how you talked to me like I was an equal, and I’ll never forget that, and I’m just glad I had the opportunity to thank you now.”‘
Describing what caused the strike to end, she said: ‘It was moving all the way through… We had reached a threshold where we crossed the billion-dollar mark and ended at a [$1,011,000,000], which is quite historic in terms of the size of the contract in this industry.’
Two weeks of intense negotiation between the performers’ union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers appears to have produced a break-through in the long-running dispute with an official end penciled in for 12.01am on Thursday.
The union said in a statement that its negotiators had voted unanimously to approve the tentative deal, which will proceed to the union’s national board on Friday for ‘review and consideration’.
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