As a bonus, the film offered a chance for Roberts to reunite with Clooney for the first time since 2016’s heist thriller ‘Money Monster’. But after a stretch including but not limited to ‘Pretty Women’, ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’, ‘Runaway Bride’, ‘Notting Hill’, and ‘Eat Pray Love’, Roberts says she struggled to fall in love with a script – that is, until ‘Ticket to Paradise’.
Roberts, the patron saint of romantic comedies, hasn’t returned to the genre in nearly 20 years. The minute they land on the beach, she tells them: “You don’t have to do a whole Trojan Horse thing.” Ol Parker, best known for ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ and ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’, directed ‘Ticket to Paradise’ and co-wrote the script with Daniel Pipski. “We have to do a Trojan Horse to make her think we’re OK with this,” Clooney tells his ex-wife. They attempt to set aside their differences and call a truce in the name of scaring their daughter out of marrying a person who is essentially a stranger. “I’m including the recovery,” he replied back.
Another moment that tickled the funny bone of the crowd was Roberts and Clooney’s characters refused to sit next to each other on the plane and hurled insults until a flight attendant lets them switch.
