George Clooney, 59, and Julia Roberts, 53, will be reunited in the romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise … 20 years after starring in Ocean’s Eleven
Hollywood vets George Clooney and Julia Roberts are teaming up for the ultimate romantic comedy.
The 59-year-old heartthrob is meeting on-screen with America’s girlfriend, 53, for a new movie Ticket To Paradise, his first project together since 2016’s Money Monster.
In the film – which will begin shooting later this year – the duo plays a divorced couple who fly to Bali to prevent their daughter from making the same mistake they made 25 years earlier.
Role at the meeting: George Clooney, 59, and Julia Roberts, 53, are expected to meet on screen as a divorced couple in the new romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise, which will begin filming later this year; seen in 2016
First days: In Ocean’s Eleven in 2001 with Clooney, Roberts and Brad Pitt
The film is scheduled to be directed by Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here we go again) and Clooney’s production company, Smokehouse Pictures, is co-producing with Roberts’ Red Om Films and Working Title.
Per Deadline ‘the project came together’ and streaming services circulated around the film, however, Universal’s frontline guys said they saw the project as a theatrical feature.
Clooney and Roberts became close friends after appearing together on the screen in 2001, Ocean’s Eleven.
In a 2014 interview with Vanity Fair, he revealed that he persuaded Julia to do the project on a $ 20 bill, although he had never met her before.
Powerful team: The pair first met at Chateau Marmont before Ocean’s Eleven, him persuading her to do the project on a $ 20 bill; pictured in 2001
They get along well: Money Monster actors in 2016 for director Jodie Foster
‘To marry [he and director Steven Soderbergh] I heard that she was making $ 20 million per movie at the time, so we offered her $ 20, ‘he laughed, Roberts agreeing,’ They sent me the script on a $ 20 bill. ‘
Friends also talked about their relationship on and off the screen, Clooney saying that the first word that comes to mind when he thinks of Julia is ‘elegant’.
Both said they value the sense of camaraderie on the set; “This is how we work – knowing this is a team, a family and a group,” said Roberts.
In 2013, she presented him with the Stanley Kubrick Award for Excellence in Cinema at the BAFTA Awards, he turning to her and saying: ‘It was a pleasure to see the woman you became’ before poking: ‘It is very difficult for me to just be cool because she’ll get me later. ‘
Shared lives: the couple’s friendship spans 20 years, with both expressing love for each other’s spouses, George saying that they are all like ‘one family’; seen in 2005
They also love each other’s spouses (Danny Moder and Amal Clooney), George said earlier: ‘It was a lot of fun to have met my wife and have them both so good friends and get along so well. … Danny and I are great friends and we love each other. What is really fun is that it is really like family. ‘
The duo spoke to People in 2016, while at Cannes for Money Monster, while talking about not just being ‘Hollywood friends’, throughout their decade beyond friendship.
‘What a relief not to be friends with Hollywood. I told him an hour ago, “Thank God we really like each other, or we would be in hell,” said Roberts.
True friendship: in a 2016 interview with People, they talked about having a true friendship, Roberts saying: ‘What a relief not to be friends with Hollywood … or we would be in hell’