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 grownups 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. I felt like they we

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