In the next movie Ticket to Paradise, which was filmed in Australia, Julia Roberts and George Clooney will reunite. The lifelong friends were trapped in a pandemic bubble, and now Roberts is talking openly about how the Clooneys “saved” her while they were filming.
After collaborating on movies like Ocean’s Eleven and Money Monster, Roberts and Clooney discussed their desire to do so again in an interview with the New York Times. While Ticket to Paradise was being filmed, Roberts lived alone while Clooney, his wife Amal, and their children remained in a nearby property.
Clooney recalled, “We began in Hamilton Island, with all these wild birds, and Julia had the house down just below Amal and I and the kids. “In the early mornings, I would come out and say, “Caa-caa,” and Julia would also say, “Caa-caa.” We would then bring her a cup of coffee. My kids called her Aunt Juju.
“The Clooneys saved me from terrible loneliness and sorrow,” Roberts continued. It was the longest time I’ve ever been apart from my family and we were in a bubble. Since I turned 25, I don’t believe I’ve spent that much time alone.
Clooney reportedly began to “get a little bit nuts” while they were all quarantining when they arrived in Australia, according to the Pretty Woman actress, “somewhere around Day 11.” That’s why they developed booze, Clooney remarked, and Roberts added, “or chocolate chip cookies,” in response.
Beginning in 2022, production on Ticket to Paradise was delayed due to an increase in COVID cases in Australia. Multiple instances were reported at the time by Deadline, and the “American stars of the film had flown home to wait out the increase in local cases.”
In the Ol Parker-directed movie, Roberts and Clooney play a divorced couple who band together and fly to Bali to save their daughter from committing the same error they did 25 years before. Billie Lourd, Kaitlyn Dever, and Lily Lucas Bravo are additional cast members.
On October 21, Ticket to Paradise will be released in theatres.