When George Clooney and Julia Roberts return to the big screen

When George Clooney and Julia Roberts return to the big screen

After several years Julia Roberts returns to star with a friend and recurring co-star George Clooney.

Funny insults are the way Roberts and Clooney prefer to communicate.

Their bond has sustained a partnership on the big screen that spans several films, from The Big Swindle in 2001 to the most recent, the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise (October 21 in the United States), which casts them in the role of ex-partner. , who dislike each other but reunite to prevent their daughter’s (Kaitlyn Dever) surprise wedding to a seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier) whom she met on a graduation trip to Bali. When the girl’s divorced parents come together, their spark is revived, by the end of the movie, they have gone from being an ex to being something of an ex-ex.

Julia Roberts lives in San Francisco with her husband, Danny Moder, and their three teenage children.

According to Clooney, when he read Ticket to Paradise, he believed from the first moment that it was clearly written for Julia and for him. In fact, the characters’ names were originally Georgia and Julian. “I haven’t really done a rom-com since One Very Special Day [1996]”—I haven’t made it like Julia in that forum—but I read it and thought, “Well, if Jules is up for it, I think this could be fun.”

Yet to Julia, somehow, it only made sense with George, simply because of their chemistry. They have a friendship that people are aware of, and they are going to appear in the film as a divorced couple. Half of America probably thinks they’re divorced, so they have that going for them. In fact they joke that they should be divorced because they are now married.

Roberts contends, “Also, George and I feel a lot of joyful responsibility in wanting to do a comedy together, to give people a vacation from life after the world has been through such a tough time. It’s like when you’re walking down the sidewalk and it’s cold and you get to that little area where the sun is out and it touches your back and you’re like, “Oh yeah. This is exactly what I needed to feel.”

The most curious thing about when George and Julia met was that in the Big Swindle press everyone already considered them friends. Some time ago Julia had read about a party at George’s house, and she thought: “Well, I have to meet this guy at some point because he seems to be having a great time”, he jokingly agrees: I’m funny!

There is a certain alchemy between the two actors, which is perceived from a distance.

George maintains that he has always been attracted to Julia, for many reasons. One of them is that she has always been a real movie star, but she is totally willing not to take herself seriously, and that makes a big difference in life, because they have spent a lot of time together. She is also a very talented actress. She works so hard but you never see her break a sweat, and it’s the quality she appreciates most in her favorite actors, like Spencer Tracy.

Julia is an executive producer of the film together with George, and of course, they have a great experience in romantic comedies, this gives her a different point of view as an expert of the genre. Julia maintains that it is a genre that she loves to participate in and watch, and believes that they are difficult to do well. There is a very simple math, but how do you make it special? How do you keep people’s interest when you can predict what’s going to happen? Has Hollywood had trouble answering those questions? There are a lot fewer rom-coms than there used to be, and you’ve said that Ticket to Paradise was the first rom-com script since Notting Hill (1999) and My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) that really got him excited.

Julia says, “You don’t really appreciate how many romantic comedies there were back then. You don’t see all the effort and puppet strings because it’s funny and sweet and people laugh and kiss and it’s catty. Plus, it’s different reading those scripts at 54. I can’t read a story like My Best Friend’s Wedding where I fall off my chair and all that stuff because…” hip! Oh, George. But it was nice to read something that was age appropriate, where the jokes made sense, and I appreciated and understood what these people were going through. That’s what people want to see, your connection to a work.” They want to see the space in your heart for it, not just, “Oh, do something funny because we love it.”

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