This permanent A list actor/director who got his start on television and this permanent A list mostly movie actress who is an Oscar winner/nominee have starred in several movies together spanning decades.

It was their first collaboration that they hooked up during the entirety of filming.

It is why they have such good chemistry now.

George Clooney

Julia Roberts

Ocean’s Eleven

George Clooney and Julia Roberts: A Shared History

George Clooney and Julia Roberts aren’t like other on-screen duos. They’ve played each other’s romantic interests only three times in three films over the past two decades, and in two of them they were playing the same characters. Yet despite the brevity of their shared résumé, no on-screen couple has captured such unique, intoxicating chemistry, which will be reinvigorated when Ticket to Paradise hits theaters this weekend. Apologies to Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper: They tried to emulate this in and while promoting A Star Is Born, but not even their intimate, horny performance of “Shallow” at the 2019 Oscars lives up to a split second of Roberts and Clooney magic in the Ocean’s franchise. Roberts and Clooney’s connection is natural under any dynamic—playful, sensual, snarky. (They are especially good at snark—making them the mother and father of American cinema.) Theirs is the kind of cinematic chemistry that Nicole Kidman should talk about in her next AMC ad.

But again, Roberts and Clooney have shared what adds up to less than four hours of screen time. Between 2004 and 2016, they didn’t work together at all. So how are they so iconic?

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No other on-screen couple has quite captured the subtle, stirring sexual energy that Clooney and Roberts manage with a glimmer in the eye, a soft touch, or even silence. In Ocean’s Eleven, Clooney plays Danny Ocean, a recently released-from-prison thief who plans a massive robbery of a casino that happens to be owned by the new boyfriend of his estranged wife, Tess, played by Roberts.

Roberts and Clooney say they were aware of each other for years but did not meet until 2000, when they had a meeting at the Chateau Marmont to discuss Ocean’s Eleven with Soderbergh. Immediately upon meeting in person, they had the witty, quick banter they’ve become known for. “We had been long-reported best friends but had never met before,” Roberts told Vanity Fair in 2014. Roberts also recalls that Clooney and Soderbergh sent her the Ocean’s script with a $20 bill, since at that time, she was making 20 million a picture.

“We became instant friends,” Roberts said on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2022. “You know, you just meet people and sometimes you think, ‘I really don’t like that person, I have no reason to not like them, I just don’t like them and I will never change my mind,’” she said. “Then there’s some people, like my GTC [George Timothy Clooney] who you go, ‘OK, I’m gonna know this person until the end of time.’” – Source

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