George and Amal Clooney Step Out for Gala in His Honor as He Shares Sweet Update on Their Twins

The ‘Jay Kelly’ star revealed the one movie of his his 8-year-old twins Alexander and Ella have recently been watching

George and Amal Clooney had a date night in the actor’s honor!

On Monday, April 27, the couple attended the 51st Chaplin Award Gala Celebrating George Clooney at Alice Tully Hall in New York City.

Amal, 48, turned heads in a purple Balenciaga peplum-style mini dress, which she teamed with a gold clutch bag and matching heels, while her husband, 64, looked dapper in a black tuxedo. 
The duo posed for a series of photos on the red carpet before heading inside for the event, which recognizes an individual’s “significant contributions to the art of cinema,” per the Lincoln Center website.

The award is named after its first honoree, Charlie Chaplin, with all proceeds from the annual gala fundraiser “going to support our nonprofit organization’s mission to celebrate cinema as an essential art form and foster a vibrant home for film culture to thrive.”

Speaking exclusively to PEOPLE on the red carpet, George shared that receiving the award and the attention that has come with it was “wild” and “a little embarrassing,” but “fun” at the same time. 

“You don’t, you drink,” he jokes about how he prepared for the evening. “I’m gonna have to start drinking soon.” 

The Jay Kelly star also shared an insight into how his children — twins Ella and Alexander, 8 — have been watching his movies as he reflected on his career.

Revealing that he doesn’t tend to watch his films now he’s older because it’s “hard” to see how he looked in his younger years, George said that he’s made an exception for 2009’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. 

“It’s a weird thing. As you get older, it’s hard to watch movies when you were younger because you’re like, holy s—, that doesn’t even look like me anymore,” he tells PEOPLE. “You know, I’m watching because I’ve got 8 year olds, I’m watching Fantastic Mr. Fox, which is a little easier because it’s not really me, it’s just my boys. And that’s kind of fun because the kids are slowly figuring out what I do for a living.”

Earlier this year, George revealed that he finally showed his son Alexander his Batman movie.

In an interview with W. Magazine, George explained that he showed his son the film after he went as the character for Halloween last year. 

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“Halloween’s a big holiday. My son went as Batman. He hadn’t seen Batman yet,” Clooney told the outlet of his 1997 film Batman & Robin. “I always say to him, ‘You know I was Batman.’ He’s always like, ‘No.'”

“I don’t know that he knew how profound it was when he said I wasn’t Batman. A couple of weeks ago, I finally showed it to him,” he continued. “It wasn’t great for grown-ups, but it’s great for 8-year-olds, so he loved it.”

Via: People