Julia Roberts says the Clooney family 'saved' her while filming Ticket to Paradise
Julia Roberts says the Clooney family 'saved' her while filming Ticket to Paradise
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There are worse individuals to be stuck with if you had to create a pandemic bubble than the Clooneys. In the upcoming romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise, George Clooney and Julia Roberts will reunite after acting in movies like Ocean's Eleven and Money Monster. The two play acrimoniously separated ex-couples who band together to prevent their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever from Booksmart) from carrying out her destination wedding in Bali.

The two actors discussed playing exes and quarantining one another while filming in Australia in an interview with The New York Times. Clooney revealed that he rented a home for the duration of the production with his wife Amal and their twin kids. Roberts was staying at a different home close by while her husband and three kids were back in the US.

"We started in Hamilton Island, with all these wild birds, and Julia had the house down just below Amal and me and the kids," Clooney said. "I would come out in the early mornings and be like, 'Caa-caa,' and Julia would come out and be like, 'Caa-caa.' And then we'd bring her down a cup of coffee. She was Aunt Juju to my kids."

"The Clooneys saved me from complete loneliness and despair," Roberts added. "We were in a bubble, and it's the longest I've ever been away from my family. I don't think I've spent that much time by myself since I was 25."

Despite being lifelong friends and coworkers, Clooney and Roberts' first romantic comedy together is Ticket to Paradise. Ol Parker, the director of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, claims the movie was "obviously created for Julia and me." (In the original script, he explains, their characters' names were "Georgia and Julian.")

Clooney and Roberts quip that it took them "80 takes" to film a single kissing moment without laughing, despite their obvious chemistry. The one take of our kissing is followed by 79 takes of us laughing, according to Roberts. Maxime Bouttier, Lucas Bravo, and Billie Lourd are also featured in Ticket to Paradise. The movie debuts on October 21.

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