George Clooney and Julia Roberts Talk 'Ticket to Paradise'

Moviefone speaks with George Clooney and Julia Roberts about 'Ticket to Paradise.' "We knew what was required and we were ready to go to work," Clooney said.

Opening in theaters on October 21st is the new comedy ‘Ticket to Paradise,’ which reunites ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ and ‘Money Monster’ co-stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

Directed by Ol Parker (‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’), the movie follows two divorced parents, David (Clooney) and Georgia (Roberts), who travel to Bali after learning their daughter, Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), is going to marry a man named Gede (Maxime Bouttier), who she just met.

The former couple decides to put their differences aside and work together to sabotage the wedding and stop Lily from making the same mistake they made twenty-five years earlier.

The cast also includes Billie Lourd (‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’) and Lucas Bravo (‘Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris’).

Moviefone recently had the pleasure of sitting down with George Clooney and Julia Roberts in-person to talk about their work on ‘Ticket to Paradise,’ their characters, working together again, their friendship, and embarrassing the younger cast.

(L to R) George Clooney and Julia Roberts in Universal Pictures' 'Ticket to Paradise.'

You can read the full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews with Clooney, Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier, Lucas Bravo, and director Ol Parker.

Moviefone: To begin with, your characters say some pretty awful things to each other in the movie. Since you are friends in real life, was it difficult to perform those scenes?

George Clooney: It was easy. Oh, yeah. All of it. Oh, sorry. No, none of it. It felt terrible.

Julia Roberts: It was fun. And then sometimes...

GC: It was too much.

JR: Yes, it was too much.

GC: Actually, in all fairness, there were a couple, three times where either one of us…

JR: We were trying to go more, more, and more, take after take.

GC: All the background artists were in it too and laughing. Then you'd hear them all go, "Oh!" Then you'd look at me and go, "Oh!"

MF: After working together for over 20 years now, at what point do you officially become “work wife” and “work husband?”

JR: I mean, I think from the beginning. I think playing a fractured married couple as our first outing.

GC: Seems like that's all we do, really.

JR: It is kind of all we do.

GC: That's actually all we've ever done, really. And no, that's not typecasting at all. Not at all.

JR: Even in ‘Money Monster,’ I was your work wife.

GC: Yeah.

MF: You both have to play drunk in the movie, can you talk about the challenges of playing a scene as if you were intoxicated?

JR: It takes years of practice.

GC: Honestly, it's hard to find her sober on the set, quite honestly.

JR: It was fun.

GC: It's not difficult.

JR: It’s a fun scene.

GC: Well, the funny part was, we knew what was required. We got there, and we were ready to go to work, and there's these young actors. Lucas was over on the sideline watching and Kaitlyn, Billie Lourd and Max were all around. Then it was like, "Okay. Time to go." And once it was…

JR: I think maybe they thought we were going to do something cool.

GC: Yeah. I think they thought that we were going to be cooler than we were. When we were incredibly uncool, they were really embarrassed. They were.

JR: Which really egged us on even more, and the more horrified they were.

GC: The more they did it. We were laughing.

MF: Finally, there is a line in the film, “Why save the good stuff for later?" Is that the theme of the movie?

GC: Yeah. Well, I think you've always done that, I think, and we both sort of had that as a focus in life.

JR: That spirit, yeah.

GC: Which is, I think it's a good thing to do because things go by quick, brother. I'm 61, and stuff happens fast. So, if you're not living in the moment, paying attention to it, enjoying it and enjoying the moments that you're having with your family and with the people you work with, it goes quick.

JR: I mean, I'm 43 and I feel like it's flying.

GC: But she's got the brain of a 68-year-old.

JR: But, I'm fine.