Julia Roberts is singing the praises of her longtime good friend George Clooney.
In a brand new interview with The New York Occasions, Roberts, 54, admitted she leaned on Clooney whereas filming their new movie collectively throughout the COVID-19 lockdown.
“The Clooneys saved me from full loneliness and despair,” the Oscar winner stated.
“We had been in a bubble, and it is the longest I’ve ever been away from my household. I do not assume I’ve spent that a lot time on my own since I used to be 25.”
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The pair filmed their new rom-com Ticket to Paradise in Australia from November 2021 to February, however confronted strict COVID-19 quarantine guidelines within the midst of the filming.
Sadly, this meant Roberts wasn’t capable of see her husband Danny Moder or their youngsters, teenage twins Phinnaeus and Hazel, 17, and son Henry, 15.
“When Danny and the youngsters did come go to, that meant they needed to fly into Sydney and quarantine for 2 weeks by themselves earlier than she may see them,” Clooney, 61, defined within the interview.
Clooney introduced his complete household to set with him, since he and spouse Amal are nonetheless elevating their very younger twins Ella and Alexander, who’re 5.
Roberts then revealed how quarantining with the Clooneys actually went down.
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“Once we first obtained to Australia and we had been all quarantining, you form of go just a little bit cuckoo,” she stated. “I keep in mind proper round Day 11, I used to be like, ‘Who am I? The place am I? What is that this room that I by no means depart?’ It is a humorous factor. I hadn’t actually anticipated all that.”
“That is why they invented alcohol,” Clooney chimes in.
“Or chocolate chip cookies,” Roberts responds.
Clooney replies, “That too.”
The pair give just a little style for readers into their well-known chemistry they share. In a single anecdote, Clooney reveals the every day routine he, Amal and his children undertook with Roberts.
“We began in Hamilton Island, with all these wild birds, and Julia had the home down just under Amal and me and the youngsters,” he informed The New York Occasions
“I’d come out within the early mornings and be like, ‘Caa-caa,’ and Julia would come out and be like, ‘Caa-caa.’ After which we might convey her down a cup of espresso. She was Aunt Juju to my children.”
The pair additionally hilariously opened up about why they determined to do a romantic comedy collectively within the first place.
“It by some means solely made sense with George, simply primarily based on our chemistry,” stated Roberts.
“Now we have a friendship that individuals are conscious of, and we’re going into it as this divorced couple. Half of America in all probability thinks we are divorced, so we’ve got that going for us.”
The pair additionally revealed they do in truth kiss within the movie, however it wasn’t a simple feat for them.
“[There’s] one kiss. And we did it for, like, six months,” Roberts reveals.
Clooney provides: “I informed my spouse, ‘It took 80 takes.’ She was like, ‘What the hell?'”
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