Given her flawless fashion sense, it is no surprise Amal Clooney was stepping out in yet another sensational look on Friday as Venice Film Festival continues.
Making the Italian city’s famous waterways her very own floating catwalk she wore a £1,190 mesh Stella McCartney dress as she held hands with her husband George.
Stepping off a water taxi amid the star-studded two-week event, Amal, 48, accessorised with nude Aquazzura heels and huge dark shades.
By her side George, 65, wore a dark navy suit as he let his wife shine and be the centre of attention – two days after he’d paid tribute to his ‘badass’ lawyer wife in his acceptance speech for his Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement on Wednesday.
Amal, a British-Lebanese human rights lawyer, has represented Yazidi survivors and helped secure historic legal victories holding ISIS members accountable for genocide.
‘By the way, my wife’s the only person to have ever put ISIS on trial and won,’ the Hollywood star said. ‘She’s a badass, and she gets the job done. We do it for our families. We do it for our friends.’
He added: ‘Amal’s taken some very difficult stands over the years, and we’ve had to face some pretty heavy criticism based on that. I wrote an op-ed about President Joe Biden. I got some s***.
‘We have really interesting conversations around the table. But you know, we also have two nine-year-old kids, and we have a normal family life, and there’s a lot of laughing and a lot of love, and we’re very lucky, and we’re really aware of that.’
Amal Clooney in a £1,190 mesh Stella McCartney dress as she steps off a water taxi in Venice with her husband George
The Hollywood star praised his ‘badass’ lawyer wife during his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Italian city’s film festival
Clooney also added that he braces against people telling actors to ‘shut up’ about human rights and political issues.
‘I didn’t give away my freedom of speech the minute I became an actor,’ he defiantly said. ‘It also means that people can get mad at you and not like you anymore. Fair enough. That’s how this works.
‘You can’t demand freedom of speech and then say, “But don’t say bad s*** about me”. Right? That’s the deal.’
Taking a swipe at President Trump, Clooney added: ‘I get mean tweets from the President of the United States. That’s okay. I can handle it. I’ll do alright. I’ll be fine. But that’s part of life.’
Clooney and Trump have taken plenty of swipes at each other over the years.
On Wednesday, Clooney launched a scathing attack on the US administration, branding those in charge ‘the least qualified people’ and slamming what he said was a complete absence of ‘decency’.
Amal, 48, accessorised with nude Aquazzura heels and huge dark shades
The couple arrived in Venice earlier this week for the city’s film festival
They were attending an event at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia
The Clooneys have been spotted travelling around the city by water taxi
Amal’s raspberry maxi dress is very much in keeping with her flawless fashion sense
The couple are returning to the city in which they married in 2014
They headed off to their next Venice event
She was showing off her gorgeous sense of style
They both wore trendy shades
He sweetly put his arm around her
They then boarded the water taxi
They chatted away on the water taxi
They looked every inch the glamorous couple
He then helped her down on to the boat
George later attended a talk on the future of creativity
On stage with Kennedy Yanko
He later posed with jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal
The outing comes after on Thursday night Amal was seen enjoying her evening in a stunning blue and white mini dress
‘We’ve had some other difficult times but this is one of them,’ he said. ‘There is a great word, kakistocracy, which is a country run by the least qualified people. I think maybe we have a kakistocracy right now but we will get through it.
‘We will have an election in November that should be a check and balance and then in 2028, with any luck, we will have some restoration.’
The Oscar-winning star went on to denounce Trump’s administration as ‘cruel’, arguing that basic standards of decency had disappeared from public life.
‘The idea that cruelty is the base, that being cruel and unkind is part of the fun of all this,’ Clooney told the press, in the latest of a string of attacks the actor has made against the running of the US.
‘You see what the secretary of defense just tweeted out a picture about women in the military in Canada and you’re going, “What is wrong with you?”
‘”Where is the sense of decency in all this?” I’m ashamed of all of that but we will get through it and we will come out better on the other side.’
Clooney drew on a tweet by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appearing to mock the physical appearance of an overweight female Canadian soldier presenting a medal at a youth camp.
On Monday night, Hegseth posted the image from 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 likened to today.
‘I’m old enough to have been through 1968 in the States when every city in the United States was set on fire and we lost Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy in the same year,’ he said.
‘There was tons of violence. The Capitol was surrounded with tanks. We’ve had some other difficult times, but this is one of them.’
