Why Julia Roberts and George Clooney needed 80 sockets to get their kiss on the screen

The actors join forces again for the next Rom-Com, Ticket to Paradise.


They can both be Oscars with extremely successful careers in Hollywood, but evenJulia Robert andGeorge Clooney Do not always nail their scenes on the first catch - or even the 79th. The two longtime actors and friends are playing in the next romantic comedyTicket for paradise (In theaters, October 21), and despite all their experience on the screen and their familiarity with each other, they took them forever to nail their big love scene.

Both haveGreat chemistry On the screen and out - "There is alchemy about us that you can feel at a distance, I think," said Roberts recentlyThe New York Times-But these friends had a hard time kissing seriously. Read the rest to see what the actors had to say about their real relationship and their new film.

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Roberts and Clooney are close friends.

Roberts and Clooney have been friends for over 20 years, but according to Roberts, some people think it was even longer than that. "We had been reported for a long time as" best friends ", but we have never met before," she saidVanity of the first Clooney meeting Before the years 2001Eleven ocean. They continued to play in three other films together:Ocean's twelve,,Confessions of a dangerous spirit, andSilver monster.

"What relief we are not friends from Hollywood", "Roberts said People In 2016. "I just said to him an hour ago:" Thank God, we really like each other, or we would be in hell. "" Added Clooney at the time ", Roberts' husband]Danny [Modern]And I am great friends and I love you. What is fun is really like a family. It makes it easy. It's really fun to say: "Hey, let's make this film together." ""

They play ex in their new film.

InTicket for paradise, Clooney and Roberts play a divorced couple who meet to try to stop their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) Marry a man she has just met in Bali. Although their characters are initially disagreeing in everything, but their mission to break the new couple, the rules of Rom-Com dictate that they revive their own romance along the way.

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They had trouble crossing their kisses scene.

Julia Roberts and George Clooney at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016
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In their interview withThe New York Times, the two actors revealed themselves again on the most difficult part to play lovers on the screen again, which was apparently kissing it.

"A kiss," said Roberts. "And we did it for six months."

Clooney added: "Yeah. I said to my wife [Amal Clooney], "It took 80 sockets." She said to herself: "What is the hell?" "Roberts explained later", it took 79 taken from us laughing and then the only taking us. ""

"Well, we had to do things right," said Clooney.

Clooney shared another funny story on a love scene.

Julia Roberts and George Clooney at the American Cinematheque Award Honoring George Clooney in 2006
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In the same interview, Clooney shared that when he started for the first time, he had a different problem when it comes to kissing him a co-star.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I remember at the start of my career, I had to make a kisses scene with this girl and the director says:" Not likethis, "" Said Clooney. "And I said to myself: 'guy, that's my move! That's what I do in real life!'"

He raised history in reference to aTicket for paradise Scene in which he and Roberts clumsily dance, which embarrasses their daughter. "It was in a way the same way here, because everyone had plans for the way we have to dance, then we said to ourselves:" In fact, we have very bad dance movements in the real one life ", he said. "Julia and I have done all these movements before, this is the most sick part." Roberts added: "Oh, all over the world."


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