Julia Roberts and George Clooney will soon be reunited on screen.
the transformation into the early aughts is almost complete. The last step, is for the queen of rom coms, Julia Roberts, to return to her rightful throne. And luckily, that is exactly what she’s doing. This October, Roberts and George Clooney will star side-by-side in the romcomDuring a discussion with
recently, Roberts insisted she hasn’t purposefully avoided romcoms for the last 20 years. “People sometimes misconstrue the amount of time that’s gone by that I haven’t done a romantic comedy as my notlevel of writing orlevel of madcap fun, I would do it.” Luckily, Roberts finally found that in the Ol Parker written and directed], I thought, well, disaster, because this only works if it’s George Clooney. Lo and behold, George felt it only worked with me.
Roberts headed to Australia to shoot the film with costars Clooney, Kaitlyn Dever, Billie Lourd, and Lucas Bravo not long after she wrapped“To play these scenes with the greatest dramatic actor, I think, of my generation in Sean Penn, and then run around Australia with George playing these very funny scenes—I’m living my acting dreams,” she said.
These days, Roberts is pretty busy with various projects, but there was a while when we really didn’t see too much of her. “It wasn’t by design so much as not finding something that I was interested in,” she said. “I was surprised how quickly the years seemed to go by.” The actress was also busy raising her three kids over the past 18 years, but now, she’s finding more time for her own pursuits. “As they get older...