But the actor clarified her absence doesn’t mean she wasn’t interested or willing.

She, of course, has appeared in hit rom-coms such as Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, and My Best Friend’s Wedding. Genre: Drama Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Contributor: Xu Qing, Zhang Jizhong, Li Yapeng. But he was willing to return to it if Roberts also signed on. Laughing in the Wind/Xiao Ao Jiang Hu 2001. Clooney in particular only made a single attempt at the genre, 1996’s One Fine Day co-starring Michelle Pfeiffer. Roberts also recently told Fox News “it’s like kissing your best friend.” Why did George Clooney and Julia Roberts return to rom-coms?įor both stars, Ticket to Paradise marks the return to romantic comedies for the first time in decades. Roberts joked that the kissing scenes “took 79 takes of us laughing and then the one take of us kissing.” “Well, we had to get it right,” Clooney then said. “I told my wife, ‘It took 80 takes.’ She was like, ‘What the hell?’” Ticket to Paradise stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney with Amal Clooney at Cannes | Anthony Harvey/FilmMagic But I don’t want to give the whole shop away,” Clooney told the Times. Also known as: Laughing in the Wind / State of Divinity / The Smiling, Proud Wanderer / Blood Cold and Proud Hot. But in the case of Ticket to Paradise, Amal Clooney was the one with something to say. Early on, Clooney even reveals that one of his first kissing scenes culminated with the director calling out his real-life moves.

In an extensive interview with The New York Times, Clooney and Roberts discuss their friendship, careers, and new movie. Amal Clooney had a hilarious reaction to the actors’ kissing scene

Laughing in the wind 2001