People.com Celebrity Parents George Clooney praises Nicole Kidman's motherhood skills By Staff Author Published on January 8, 2008 11:20 AM Share Tweet Pin Email Hours after Nicole Kidman, 40, announced her pregnancy, actor George Clooney, offered his congratulations. At the Critics’ Choice Awards in L.A. he said, I’m thrilled for her. [She’ll be] a perfect mother. She’ll be great. She’ll be a tall mother. The two actors have been friends since they met in 1997 while doing the movie The Peacemaker. In 1998, Nicole and Michelle Pfeiffer bet Clooney $10,000 that by 2001, he’d be married with children. George won the bet. Source: People.com