Julia Roberts and George Clooney inTicket to Paradise.Photo: Vince Valitutti/Universal Studios
George ClooneyandJulia Robertstook their time to get the perfect shot for their upcoming movieTicket to Paradise.
Clooney, 61, and Roberts, 54, recently joked toThe New York Timesthat a single kiss between their characters — divorced parents who reunite to attempt to prevent their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) from getting married — took “like, six months,” in an interview published Monday.
“Yeah. I told my wife, ‘It took 80 takes,’ " Clooney toldTheTimes. “She was like, ‘What the hell?’ "
“It took 79 takes of us laughing and then the one take of us kissing,” Roberts added. Clooney responded, “Well, we had to get it right.”
“I hadn’t really done a romantic comedy sinceOne Fine Day— I haven’t succeeded like Julia has in that forum — but I read it and thought, ‘Well, if Jules is up for it, I think this could be fun,’ " Clooney said in the interview.
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Roberts toldThe Timesthat the film “somehow only made sense with George, just based on our chemistry.” The friends previously worked together onOcean’s Elevenand 2016’sMoney Monster.
“We have a friendship that people are aware of, and we’re going into it as this divorced couple. Half of America probably thinks wearedivorced, so we have that going for us,” she said.
Clooney also joked about filming a kissing scene years ago — and being directed to do the opposite of his usual moves: “I remember early on in my career, I had to do a kissing scene with this girl and the director goes, ‘Not likethat.’ And I was like, ‘Dude, that’s my move! That’s what I do in real life!’ "
In May, Roberts joked aboutTicket To Paradisewhen she spoke withVarietyat the Cannes Film Festival in France.
“Christ. I knew this would come up. Watch, the real acting happens now. Ready?” Roberts told the outlet, before, asVarietynoted, she put on a “big smile” and added: “George, isn’t he great!?”
Noting that the project is a romantic comedy where Clooney plays her ex-husband, Roberts then told the publication, “I think it’s so funny and George is so funny and George and I together, it’s probably going to be terrible because there’s too much potential for it to be great, it’ll just implode on it itself.”
“I think that should be the commercial for the movie: ‘It’s probably going to be terrible,’ " continued Roberts, before playfully teasing, “I’m so glad my publicist is on a plane right now.”
Thetrailer forTicket to Paradiseshows the Oscar-winning pair’s divorced couple wreaking havoc in Bali in their attempts to prevent their daughter from marrying.
“Out daughter’s gonna marry a guy she just met, millions of miles from home. She’s throwing her career away,” Clooney’s character tells a stranger seated between him and his ex (Roberts) on a flight. Roberts' character then says, “Just like her mother did, so I’m the only one who can stop her. She doesn’t listen to him.”
Ticket to Paradiseis in theaters Oct. 21.
source: people.com
