After more than 20 years of starring opposite each other for the first time on the big screen, Julia Roberts and George Clooney are back in the movies.
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“Ma’am, I need to sit somewhere. We were married,” Roberts’ character explains to a flight attendant that her seatmate is her ex-husband.
“The worst 19 years of my life,” says Clooney’s character.
“We were only married for five,” she shoots back.
“I’m counting the recoveries,” he quipped.
Believing that their daughter getting married would be the same mistake they once made, the former couple reunite together, ending the newlyweds’ relationship.
In 2001, Roberts and Clooney appeared together for the first time in “Ocean’s Eleven”. The alienated couple as Danny and Tess Ocean and reprized their roles in 2004’s “Ocean’s Twelve”. They have starred together in “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” (2002) and “Money Monster” (2016).
Roberts recently spoke with USA Today about the power of acting with a familiar co-star: their longtime friend Sean Penn on Starz’s Watergate drama “Gaslitt.” their characters’ relationships on screen by doingIt helped streamline the process, he said, unlike the actors who have met recently.
“It takes you getting to know people, understanding people, trying to make people comfortable with you, getting people to understand where you’re coming from, or how you work, or what you need. , spend knowing it. Them, that’s weeks and weeks of work that doesn’t exist,” Roberts said.
Read the full USA TODAY interview:Julia Roberts explains why she wanted Sean Penn as her TV husband in Watergate series ‘Gaslit’
, now actress, best known as the leading lady in the ’90s, including “Pretty Woman,” “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” “Mystic Pizza” and “Notting Hill,” mark her return to the rom-com genre after more than 20 years. Roberts previously talked about why she shied away from rom-com projects for so long.
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today Robertssaid in. New York Times Magazine. “Whenever I’m in a comedy, I feel like I just want to giggle about something with a cup of tea at a table. Then you’re like, and you think, ‘Oh that’s a pretty dress. To wear and laugh.’ “
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She added: “People sometimes misunderstand that I haven’t done a romantic comedy because I don’t want to do one. If I did something Read what I thought was ‘Notting Hill’ level of writing or ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ level of madness, I’ll do it.”
Contribution: Erin Jensen
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