There are many veteran actors who’ve joined the solid of some massive superhero films, and it looks as if Julia Roberts is able to step up. The Fairly Girl star just lately informed Selection that she would like to be in one of many many superhero franchises on the market, and naturally there isn’t any doubt that they might be more than pleased to have one other Oscar winner on board.
Julia Roberts is at present starring in Ticket to Paradise with somebody who’s notorious to the superhero style, George Clooney. When the pair spoke collectively in a brand new “Only for Selection” video, the superhero topic was introduced up, first geared toward Roberts, who grinned on the concept of probably becoming a member of one thing just like the MCU or DCEU and mentioned:
“Wouldn’t it’s superior?”
She added that quite than sporting a cape, she would possibly really feel extra at residence sporting a “superhero apron.” How precisely that will go down among the many heroes and villains of any action-packed super-hero film is one thing that everybody would like to see, but when Roberts does leap on the bandwagon, she could discover that she wants extra than simply an apron.
In the meantime, throughout the identical interview, George Clooney additionally reminded everybody of his earlier foray into the world of superheroes, even when that one as half of what’s arguably the worst Batman film ever placed on the massive display. Having infamously performed Batman in Batman & Robin again in 1997, Clooney revealed that his son is a large Batman fan. As Clooney mentioned:
“I mentioned, ‘You understand I used to be Batman?’ And he was like, ‘Not anymore.’”
Whereas she could have made her identify because the star of flicks akin to Notting Hill, Runaway Bride and, after all, Fairly Girl, Ticket to Paradise is her first film within the style for simply in need of 20 years. Nevertheless, there was a purpose why she has been absent from the world of Rom-Coms for thus lengthy and why she determined now was the time to return again. She beforehand mentioned:
“Folks generally misconstrue the period of time that’s passed by that I haven’t performed a romantic comedy as my not desirous to do one. If I had learn one thing that I believed was that Notting Hill degree of writing or My Finest Buddy’s Marriage ceremony degree of madcap enjoyable, I’d do it. They didn’t exist till this film [Ticket to Paradise] that I simply did that Ol Parker wrote and directed. However even with that, I believed, nicely, catastrophe, as a result of this solely works if it is George Clooney. Lo and behold, George felt it solely labored with me. In some way we had been each in a position to do it, and off we went.”
That is clearly not the primary time Roberts and Clooney have joined forces, having beforehand appeared in Oceans 11 and its sequels, in addition to 2016’s Cash Monster, and Ticket to Paradise has been licensed contemporary on Rotten Tomatoes with its early critic critiques. Whereas it will not be a Marvel blockbuster, generally a delicate Rom-Com from two previous arms of the business is simply what is required. Ticket to Paradise releases on October 21.