George Clooney, 59, and Julia Roberts, 53, will reunite in the romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise … 20 years after starring in Ocean’s Eleven
Hollywood vets George Clooney and Julia Roberts team up to get the ultimate romantic comedy.
The 59-year-old fan reunites on screen with the love of the United States, 53, for a new film Ticket To Paradise, his first project together since Money Monster in 2016.
In the film, which begins shooting later this year, the couple will play a divorced couple flying to Bali to prevent their daughter from making the same mistake they made 25 years earlier.
Role of the reunion: George Clooney, 59, and Julia Roberts, 53, will reunite on screen as a divorced couple in the new romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise, which will begin filming later this year; seen in 2016
Early days: at Ocean’s Eleven in 2001 with Clooney, Roberts and Brad Pitt
The film will be directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) and Clooney’s producer, Smokehouse Pictures, co-produces with Red Om Films and Roberts’ Working Title.
By the deadline, “the project came together quickly” and broadcast services revolved around the film, but Universal’s top-level guys said they saw the project as a theatrical feature.
Clooney and Roberts first became close friends after appearing together in Ocean’s Eleven in 2001.
In a 2014 interview with Vanity Fair, revealed that he convinced Julia to do the project with a $ 20 bill, even though he had never met her.
Power Team: The couple initially met for the first time at Chateau Marmont before Ocean’s Eleven, which convinced her to do the project with a $ 20 bill; in the image of 2001
They go well together: Money Monster actors in 2016 for director Jodie Foster
‘We would [he and director Steven Soderbergh] I heard he was earning a $ 20 million picture at the time, so we offered him $ 20, ”he laughed, while Roberts said,“ They sent me the script with a $ 20 bill. ‘
Friends also talked about their relationship on and off screen, Clooney said the first word that comes to mind when he thinks of Julia is “elegant.”
They both said they value the feeling of companionship on set; “That’s how it works: knowing that this is a team, a family and a group,” Roberts said.
In 2013, she presented her with the Stanley Kubrick Award for Film Excellence at the BAFTA Awards, who addressed her and said, “It has been a pleasure to see the woman you have become,” before nail the face: i’m nice, because she’ll get me later.
Shared lives: the couple’s friendship has lasted for 20 years, both expressing love for the other spouses, George saying they are all like “one family”; seen in 2005
The two are also loved by each other’s spouses (Danny Moder and Amal Clooney), George previously said, “It was so much fun to meet my wife and to make them both such good friends. … Danny and I are great friends and we love each other. What’s really funny is that it’s really like a family.
The duo sat down with People in 2016 while in Cannes for Money Monster, as they talked about not being just “Hollywood friends” throughout their decade of friendship.
What a relief that we are not friends of Hollywood. I just said to him an hour ago, “Thank God, we like it so much, or we’d be in hell,” Roberts said.
True Friendship: In a 2016 interview with People, they talked about having a real friendship, Roberts said, “What a relief that we’re not Hollywood friends … or we’d be in hell.”