“I don’t like being mean to be George,” Roberts told director Ol Parker.
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Julia Roberts and George Clooney in ‘Ticket to Paradise’.Universal Pictures
“It came from the idea that the opposite of love isn’t hatred it’s indifference.
If there’s still passions there, then there’s something to be exploited.
And George loved that and went with that.”
“They have an argument about how they brought up Lily.
Julia was just going easy on George.”
“I was like, ‘Julia, what’s up?
What’s happening here?'”
I was like, ‘What is going on here?'"
“She went, ‘I just don’t like shouting.
I don’t like being mean to George,'” explains the director.
“And I was like, ‘You got to let him have it.’
She’s like, ‘Okay.’
And then the next take is the one in the movie.
and it’s sensational.”
But this one scene crossed a line for Roberts emotionally.
“She didn’t want to be mean to him,” concludes Parker.
“They like sparring jokingly, but she didn’t enjoy doing it for real.
But then I gave her note and she killed it.
Because she’s Julia Roberts.”
