![]() ![]() Getting back to a routine feels really good. I try to be super present and not plan, and I don’t have any upcoming acting jobs. You’ve said that you consider yourself a homemaker, but your children are all teenaged now - do you think your work-life balance will change when they are grown and out of the house? Julia, this is your first movie role in four years. I hadn’t really anticipated all that.ĬLOONEY That’s why they invented alcohol. I remember right around Day 11, I was like, “Who am I? Where am I? What is this room that I never leave?” It’s a funny thing. When we first got to Australia and we were all quarantining, you kind of go a little bit cuckoo. I don’t think I’ve spent that much time by myself since I was 25.ĬLOONEY And also, when Danny and the kids did come visit, that meant they had to fly into Sydney and quarantine for two weeks by themselves before she could see them. We were in a bubble, and it’s the longest I’ve ever been away from my family. ROBERTS The Clooneys saved me from complete loneliness and despair. 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. You filmed the movie in Australia, right?ĬLOONEY We started in Hamilton Island, with all these wild birds, and Julia had the house down just below Amal and me and the kids. ROBERTS It took 79 takes of us laughing and then the one take of us kissing. They want to see the heart space that you have for it - not just, “Oh, do something funny because we love that.” That’s what people want to see, your connection to a piece of work. But it was nice to read something that was age-appropriate, where the jokes made sense, and I appreciated and understood what these people were going through. I can’t read a story like “My Best Friend’s Wedding” where I’m falling off a chair and all these things because. Also, I think it’s different to be reading those scripts at 54 years old. You don’t see all the effort and puppet strings because it’s fun and sweet and people are laughing and kissing and being mischievous. ROBERTS I think we didn’t appreciate the bumper crop of romantic comedies that we had then. Has Hollywood had trouble answering those questions? There are way fewer romantic comedies than there used to be, and you’ve said that “Ticket to Paradise” was the first rom-com script since “Notting Hill” (1999) and “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997) that you really sparked to. call time, the earliest she’s ever had to report to set in her career. Roberts had requested the early start so that she could send the kids off to school after the interview, and she noted that she was no stranger to early rising: For one sunrise scene in “Ticket to Paradise,” she had a 3 a.m. When I spoke to Roberts and Clooney in late August, no light was streaming through Roberts’s bay windows at all: It was only 6 in the morning in San Francisco, where Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, live with their three teenage children. As her divorced parents team up, their old spark is rekindled by the end of the movie, they’ve gone from exes to something like XO. 21), which casts them as warring exes who reunite to stop the surprise wedding of their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) to a seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier) she met during a graduation trip to Bali. Their rapport has sustained a big-screen partnership spanning several films, from “Ocean’s Eleven” in 2001 to their newest entry, the romantic comedy “ Ticket to Paradise” (Oct. Rat-a-tat teasing is how Roberts and Clooney prefer to communicate: “It’s our natural rhythm of joyful noise,” she said. “I have a 25-year-old computer!” Roberts said. “You’re one to talk with that soft lens,” he cracked. ![]() ![]() “Are you trying to show how outer your inner radiance is with this flare?” Roberts said.Ĭlooney peered at her Zoom thumbnail. ![]() But the room he was sitting in was so streaked with sunlight that Clooney could barely be glimpsed amid all the lens flares, and as Roberts joined us, he was pulling patterned window curtains shut to no avail. Her friend and frequent co-star George Clooney had preceded Roberts on our video call, dialing in from the Provence estate he shares with his wife, Amal. Julia Roberts began the interview with a question: “Is George causing problems already?” ![]()
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