If Julia Roberts and George Clooney had rejected ‘Journey to Paradise’, the Cher method would have been launched: “There was no Plan B”

The actors star in the new romantic comedy from Ol Parker, director of ‘Mamma Mia! And again’. We spoke with him and the cast of the film. In theaters this Friday!

When Ol Parker set to writing and developing his new romantic comedy, Julia Roberts and George Clooney were already cast in his head as the leads. It had to be them, and only them, who gave life to the divorced couple of journey to paradise. The film, which hits theaters this Friday September 9follow David Y Georgiawho must team up again after their separation to prevent their daughter Lily he marries. And when we tell you that only Clooney and Roberts could play these characters, we mean it.

“There was no plan B”says Parker in SensaCinema. The truth is that both interpreters said yes to participate in the project from the beginning, but if that had not happened, Parker would have launched the same method as carried out with cher in Mama Mia! And again. The singer said that she failed on a few occasions to give life to the mother of donnabut a very insistent Parker got him to change his decision:

Cher turned him down four times. I kept writing it: ‘No. You do not get it. You’ll make it. It sounds like a mistake, but you’re going to do it.’ She would have done the same with George and Julia. If they had said no, she would have continued writing

In a genre like romantic comedy where the viewer is used to seeing young leads falling in love, journey to paradise stands out from the trend. “Romantic comedies don’t work with thirtysomethings because romantic comedies require unsaid, misunderstanding, and confusion.. And when you get to a certain age it’s like, ‘Come on, let’s go to bed.’ Don’t worry about all that stuff and what the other person thinks,” Parker explains.

Ol Parker with Julia Roberts and George Clooney in a behind-the-scenes image of ‘Journey to Paradise’.

For this film, Parker was inspired by the phrase: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference”. “It seemed like a natural setting for a divorced couple’s romance, who know each other so well, but there’s so much backstory and backstory,” she says. “It’s the people you don’t care about anymore that you don’t love and that energy, by the way they dislike each other, suggests there’s still feeling and passion. And I thought that was a fun thing to write about.”

WORKING WITH GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS: “IS THIS REAL LIFE?”

journey to paradise He rounds out his main cast with Kaitlyn Dever, Billie Lourd and Lucas Bravo, for whom it was surreal to discover that they would be working with Roberts and Clooney in their next film. “I have no words to describe it because it was like: ‘Me?’. Like: ‘Really?'” says Lourd, the one in charge of interpreting wrenLily’s best friend. “It was shocking to me. Like, ‘Is this real life?’ And it is, and you’re like, ‘Wow.’.

The reaction of Dever, who plays Lily, the daughter of Clooney and Roberts’ characters, was similar: “When someone comes to you with this role in this movie and they say, ‘Oh. Yes. George Clooney and Julia Roberts are going to be in the movie and they’re going to play your parents. It’s about blowing your head off“.

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Julia Roberts and Lucas Bravo.

Bravo, who plays Roberts’ character’s boyfriend Paul, had a somewhat unexpected reaction:

When I found out, I feel like if it had happened five years ago, I would have gone up on a roof and told everyone. But the first thing I thought of was, ‘Oh my God. Don’t mess it up.’ So I went straight to my room and started working on my lines and everything… I just wanted it to be perfect.

Being able to work with Clooney and Roberts has been a great experience for those involved in the film. “From day one, George came along and I’ve looked up to him for so long that you never know what to expect and they always say, ‘Don’t meet your heroes.’ He came into the room and I don’t know what he said, something very silly, and it made everybody laugh. She set the tone from the beginning and stayed that way until the end.Brave recalls.

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Kaitlyn Dever and Billie Lourd in an image from ‘Journey to Paradise’.

Lourd and Dever, for their part, remember how much fun it was to shoot a particular scene with them. We are not going to tell you much, but we anticipate that there are dances, alcohol and a ‘ping-pong’ table. “The dance scene was so much fun,” says Dever. “They were really dancing. There’s no choreography. Those two gave it their all. And speaking of growing up and wanting to be someone: I wish I could dance like them one day.”Lourd adds.

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If Julia Roberts and George Clooney had rejected ‘Journey to Paradise’, the Cher method would have been launched: “There was no Plan B”