George Clooney made his Broadway debut in the play “Good Night, and Good Luck” on April 3. The play is based on the 2005 movie of the same name. When asked by reporters where his wife Amal was, Clooney simply said, “She’s with the kids.” The Clooneys have 7-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella.
Clooney joked that he planned to seat his wife in the back of the theater on opening night to help with his nerves. “I’m not looking at them. I’m putting my wife in the very, very, very back,” he said.
The actor also explained why he hadn’t done Broadway until now at age 63. “I don’t know that I could’ve.
Clooney’s Broadway debut filled with stars
I didn’t do the work required to get there,” he said. But he added that the experience has been “cool” and something any actor would love to do. “Anybody who would deny that would just be a liar.
I mean, there isn’t a single actor alive that wouldn’t have loved to have, you know, been on Broadway,” Clooney said. “So that’s the fun of it. It’s trickier the older you get.
But why not?”
Even though Amal Clooney missed her husband’s big Broadway debut, the opening night was still packed with many stars. Celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Hugh Jackman were in attendance to support Clooney.
