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 for the ultimate romantic comedy.
The 59-year-old heartthrob reunites on screen with America’s sweetheart, 53, for a new movie Ticket To Paradise, their first project together since 2016’s Money Monster.
In the film – which starts filming later this year – the couple play a divorced couple who fly to Bali to prevent their daughter from making the same mistake they made 25 years ago.
Reunion Role: 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 will be directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) and Clooney’s production company Smokehouse Pictures has partnered with Roberts’ Red Om Films and Working Title.
By deadline, “ the project came together quickly ” and streaming services circled the film, but Universal’s best guys said they saw the project as a theatrical feature.
Clooney and Roberts first became good friends after appearing onscreen together in 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven.
In a 2014 interview with Vanity Fair, he revealed that he persuaded Julia to do the project with a $ 20 bill, despite never having met her before.
Power Team: The couple initially met at Chateau Marmont for Ocean’s Eleven, he encouraged her to do the project with a $ 20 bill; pictured 2001
They do well together: the actors in Money Monster in 2016 for director Jodie Foster
‘We should [he and director Steven Soderbergh] heard she was making $ 20 million on a photo at the time, so we offered her $ 20, “he laughed, Roberts agreed,” They sent me the script with a $ 20 bill in it.
The friends also talked about their on- and off-screen relationship, with Clooney saying that the first word that comes to mind when he thinks of Julia is “ elegant. ”
They both said they appreciate a sense of camaraderie on set; “That’s how we function – knowing this is a team and a family and a group,” said Roberts.
In 2013 she presented him with the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Film at the BAFTA awards, he turned to her and said, ‘It was so nice to see the woman you have become’, before poking: ‘It is very difficult for I am just straight nice, because she will get me later. ‘
Shared Lives: The couple’s friendship has lasted 20 years, with both expressing their love for each other’s husbands, George said they are all like ‘a family’; seen in 2005
They also both love each other’s husbands (Danny Moder and Amal Clooney), George said before: ‘It was so nice to have her meet my wife and they were both such good friends and they hit it off so well. … Danny and I are good friends and love each other. What’s really nice is that it’s really like a family. ‘
The duo sat down with People in 2016 while at Cannes for Money Monster, talking about not just being “ Hollywood friends, ” throughout their decade plus friendship.
What a relief that we are not Hollywood friends. I said to him just an hour ago, “Thank God we really like each other, otherwise we’d be in hell,” said Roberts.
True Friendship: In a 2016 interview with People They Talked to About Having a Real Friendship, Roberts said, “ What a relief we aren’t Hollywood friends … otherwise we’d be in hell ”