After over 30 years in the business, Julia Roberts is still considered one of the biggest names in Hollywood. She owes that in particular to RomCom hits like My Best Friend’s Wedding or Notting Hill. One of the great highlights of her career is Pretty Woman. However, it would be years before she returned to her traditional genre of romantic comedy for Ticket to Paradise with George Clooney.
After 20 years, Julia Roberts celebrated her RomCom return with George Clooney
Pretty Woman made Julia Roberts an overnight superstar. For years she has appeared in various, often very successful, romantic comedies. With her Pretty Woman colleague Richard Gere she shot The Bride who dares not in the late 90s. But then soon came a long RomCom break of 20 years. Why?
“I would have something of the quality of Notting Hill or My Best Friend’s Wedding read, I would have done it” Roberts revealed to The New York Times in 2022. “But they just didn’t exist until [Ticket to Paradise].”
In addition, Roberts had reoriented thematically since Erin Brockovich’s Oscar success. Raising three children also took its toll on time. In the 2010s she acted in films like Eat, Pray, Love or Money Monster. And took a four-year acting break from 2018, only to grab the scepter of the RomCom queen again with a hit.
Ticket to Paradise reunites Julia Roberts with her Ocean’s Eleven co-star George Clooney. They played a divorced couple trying to torpedo their daughter’s wedding. Anyone who sees a lot of potential in it is right: the film was a success at the box office. Roberts had proved to romantic comedy fans that she still got it. 32 years after Pretty Woman.
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