It sounds like an exaggeration, but there were several witnesses during the filming of the romantic comedy “Ticket to Paradise” who literally counted the shots for a single scene. Julia Roberts and George Clooney kissed 80 times. That’s right! 80 times.
“I said to my wife, ‘There were 80 takes for a kiss,'” said Clooney, who is married to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin. The mother of the actor’s two children did not hide being surprised. “She exclaimed, ‘What the hell?'” the actor said, laughing during an interview about the film with The New York Times. Julia tried to explain what had happened to the pair.
“There were 79 takes of the two of us laughing about the situation and then one shot of us kissing for real,” the actress revealed. “We have a friendship that people know, and we’re going to go into it as a divorced couple. Half of America probably thinks we’re divorced, so we have that in our favor,” joked Julia, reinforcing being a personal friend of the director’s co-star in the film. Hello Parker.
Julia and George have starred in “Money Game”, “Eleven Men and a Secret”, “Twelve Men and Another Secret” and “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind“. In “Entrance to Heaven”, they play an ex-couple, who travels to Bali to try to prevent their daughter, Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), who has recently graduated from the University of Chicago, from marrying a young local (Maxime Bouttier). , whom she met on her graduation trip.
Julia and Clooney’s characters believe that the young woman will make the mistake that they, who impulsively married, had a daughter and remained linked for the rest of their lives. But amid sabotage and plans to avoid the union, the ex-couple ends up rethinking their relationship. The film opened in theaters this Wednesday (7).
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