With her penchant for statement outfits, it’s no surprise that Amal Clooney looked stunning again on her second night in Venice.
But the human rights lawyer needed help as she left her private boat to enjoy a night out at the glitzy film festival with her husband George.
Amal, 48, opted for a dramatic turquoise dress adorned with fringed sequins as she arrived in a private boat before being helped to shore.
George looked dapper in a smart navy suit as he and Amal headed out for the evening, hours after he paid tribute to her in a powerful speech.
The 65-year-old Hollywood actor, who received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on Wednesday, praised his “badass” lawyer wife Amal.
Amal, a British-Lebanese human rights lawyer, has represented Yazidi survivors and secured historic legal victories by holding ISIS members accountable for genocide.
Amal Clooney needed help as she left her private boat to enjoy a night out with her husband George on the second night of the Venice Film Festival
Amal, 48, opted for a dramatic turquoise dress adorned with fringed sequins as she arrived in a private boat before being helped to shore
“By the way, my wife is the only person who has ever tried ISIS and won,” he praised. “She’s a tough girl and she gets the job done. We do it for our families. We do it for our friends.’
He added: “Amal has taken some very difficult positions over the years, and we have received some pretty heavy criticism on that basis. I wrote an op-ed about President Joe Biden. I have some ***.
‘We have really interesting conversations at the table. But you know, we also have two nine-year-old children, and we have a normal family life, and there’s a lot of laughter and a lot of love, and we’re very lucky, and we realize that very well.”
Clooney also added that he is pushing back against people telling actors to keep quiet about human rights and political issues.
“I have not given away my freedom of expression from the moment I became an actor,” he said defiantly. ‘It also means that people can get mad at you and stop liking you. Reasonable. That’s how this works.
“You can’t demand freedom of speech and then say, ‘But don’t say bad things about me.’ Right? That’s the deal.’
Taking a swipe at President Trump, Clooney added: “I’m getting mean tweets from the President of the United States. That’s okay. I can handle it. I’ll do it right. I’ll be fine. But that’s part of life.’
Clooney and Trump have taken many swipes at each other over the years.
George looked dapper in a smart navy suit as he and Amal headed out for the evening, hours after he paid tribute to her in a powerful speech
The 65-year-old Hollywood actor, who received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on Wednesday, praised his ‘badass’ lawyer wife Amal
On Wednesday, Clooney launched a scathing attack on the US government, labeling its executives as “the least qualified people” and criticizing what he said was a complete lack of “decency.”
“We’ve had some tough times, but this is one of them,” he said. ‘There is a beautiful word: kakistocracy, a country governed by the least qualified people. I think we may have a kakistocracy now, but we will get through it.
“We will have elections in November which should be a check and balance and then in 2028, with any luck, we will see some recovery.”
The Oscar-winning star then denounced Trump’s administration as “cruel,” arguing that basic standards of decency had disappeared from public life.
“The idea that cruelty is the basis, that being cruel and unkind is part of the fun of it all,” Clooney told the press, in the latest in a series of attacks the actor has made against the US government.
“You see what the Minister of Defense just tweeted a picture about women in the military in Canada, and you’re like, ‘What’s wrong with you?’
“Where is the sense of decency in all this?” I’m ashamed of all that, but we’ll get through it and we’ll come out better on the other side.”
Clooney relied on a tweet from US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in which he appeared to mock the physical appearance of an overweight female Canadian soldier presenting a medal at a youth camp.
On Monday evening, Hegseth posted the image of a cadet training center in British Columbia with the caption: “This is real.”
Calling himself an optimist, Clooney said he remembered living through dark times in the country’s history – which he compared to today.
“I’m old enough to have lived through 1968 in the United States, when every city in the United States was burned and we lost Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy that same year,” he said.
‘There was a lot of violence. The Capitol was surrounded with tanks. We’ve had other hard times, but this is one of them.’
