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 veterans George Clooney and Julia Roberts team up for the ultimate romantic comedy.
The 59-year-old heart reunites on screen with his 53-year-old American girlfriend for a new movie Ticket To Paradise, their first project together from Money Monster in 2016.
In the film – which begins filming later this year – the couple will play a divorced couple flying to Bali to stop their daughter from the same mistake they made 25 years ago.
The 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: In Ocean’s Eleven in 2001 with Clooney, Roberts and Brad Pitt
The film is to be directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) and Clooney production company Smokehouse Pictures is co-producing Red Om Films and Working Title in Roberts.
Per Deadline, “the project quickly came together,” and streaming services surrounded the film, however, Universal’s top guys said they saw the project as a theatrical feature.
Clooney and Roberts became close friends after appearing on screen together in Ocean’s Eleven in 2001.
In a 2014 interview with Vanity Fair, he revealed that he convinced Julia to do the project with a $ 20 bill, despite the fact that he had never met her before.
Power Team: The pair first met at Chateau Marmont for the first time before Ocean’s Eleven, making him do the $ 20 bill project; in 2001
They manage together: the actors from Money Monster in 2016 for director Jodie Foster
– We would be [he and director Steven Soderbergh] I heard he was taking a $ 20 million picture at the time, so I offered him $ 20, “he laughed, Roberts humming,” They sent me the script with a $ 20 bill. ‘
Friends also talked about their relationship on and off screen, with Clooney saying that the first word that comes to mind when he thinks of Julia is “elegant.”
They both said they appreciated the feeling of camaraderie on set; “That’s how we work – knowing it’s a team, a family and a group,” Roberts said.
In 2013, she awarded her the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film at the BAFTA Awards, and he turned to her and said, “It was a pleasure to watch the woman you have become,” before soaping herself. : “It is very difficult to be simply nice, because it will take me later.
Common lives: the couple’s friendship lasted 20 years, both expressing their love for their other spouses, George saying that they are all like “one family”; seen in 2005
They both also have love for each other’s wives (Danny Moder and Amal Clooney), George previously said, “It was so much fun to meet my wife and for both of them to be such good friends and get along so well.” good. … Danny and I are great friends and we love each other. What’s really fun is that it’s really like a family.
The duo sat down with People in 2016, while at Cannes for Money Monster, while talking about the fact that they weren’t just “Hollywood friends” throughout their decade, plus friendship.
“It simply came to our notice then. I just said an hour ago, “Thank God we really like each other, or we’d be in hell,” Roberts said.
True friendship: in a 2016 interview with People, they talked about a real friendship, Roberts saying, “What a relief we are not Hollywood friends … or we would be in hell.”