We spoke with TicketToParadise director Ol Parker on why filming the dancing scene with Julia Roberts and George Clooney was 'the best night' and how he wouldn't have made this movie without them.
With Ticket to Paradise now playing in theaters, I recently sat down with writer-director director Ol Parker to talk about making his romantic comedy. In the film, Julia Roberts and George Clooney play a divorced couple who agree to put aside their differences to stop their lovestruck daughter from marrying someone she just met . As you might expect, things do not go according to plan.
Listen, George and Julia, they're movie stars. They're selective with what they do. What is it like, actually getting the phone call, or the Zoom meeting, or whatever it may be, when they actually say, "Yeah, we're going to do this." Like everyone, I love the beer pong scene, and them dancing. I know everyone talks about it. But I'm curious, what is it like directing that scene?
PARKER: To be honest, very little. It came out okay. It came out quite smooth. It got a little shorter. You lose things that don't work, and also you realize how good they are, so you realize you've overwritten. Do you know what I mean? You realize that you've given them lines to explain something that they're so good at just showing you, that you don't need the line of explanation. So it tightened, but it didn't radically. I think we were ready for it to change.
I am definitely curious if you put it in your contract, that you would get a piece of the residuals of all the people going to Bali, after seeing this movie.