George ClooneyandJulia Robertssay a certain three-letter word is the secret to their on-screen chemistry and off-screen camaraderie.
“The minute we met, we had fun,” Clooney, 61, told PEOPLE Monday night at the U.S. premiere of their new film,Ticket to Paradise. “The beauty is, when you work with people who take their work seriously and don’t take themselves seriously, and that’s really fun.”
“I thought, he’s going to be a pal,” Roberts, 54, recalled, about the first time she met the actor.
While promoting the movie, Clooney and Roberts have had plenty of laughs while poking fun at one another — and themselves.
Julia Roberts and George Clooney inTicket to Paradise.Vince Valitutti/Universal Studios
“I think it’s so funny, and George is so funny, and George and I together, it’s probably going to be terrible because there’s too much potential for it to be great, it’ll just implode on it itself,” the Oscar-winning actress toldThe New York Timeslast month.
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“I think that should be the commercial for the movie: ‘It’s probably going to be terrible,’ " continued Roberts, before playfully teasing, “I’m so glad my publicist is on a plane right now.”
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For his part, Clooney joked about what it took to get a perfect shot of the two kissing, while filming the movie.
“Yeah. I told my wife, ‘It took 80 takes,’ " Clooney toldThe Times. “She was like, ‘What the hell?'”
“It took 79 takes of us laughing and then the one take of us kissing,” Roberts added.
Clooney responded, “Well, we had to get it right.”
“I hadn’t really done a romantic comedy sinceOne Fine Day— I haven’t succeeded like Julia has in that forum — but I read it and thought, ‘Well, if Jules is up for it, I think this could be fun,’ " he said.
Ticket to Paradiseis in theaters Oct. 21.
source: people.com
