Ticket To Paradise Director Ol Parker On George & Julia' s Chemistry Tickettoparadise HEAD TOPICS

Ticket To Paradise Director Ol Parker On George & Julia' s Chemistry

10/21/2022 11:48:00 PM

Ol Parker talks Ticket to Paradise

Tickettoparadise

Source

Screen Rant

We chat with TicketToParadise director Ol Parker about Julia Roberts and George Clooney's chemistry, casting Kaitlyn Dever, and turning Australia into Bali: Ol Parker talks Ticket to Paradise SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) directed and co-wrote Ticket to Paradise, sure from the start about which stars he had to cast in order to make the story sing perfectly. The supporting characters are no slouches either, with Maxime Bouttier, Billie Lourd (American Horror Story), and Lucas Bravo (Emily in Paris) playing vital roles that bring both the laughs and the humanity to the proceeding. Additionally, plenty of research went into Balinese customs and locations, despite the actors filming in Australia due to pandemic restrictions. Read more:
Screen Rant » Don't bother with this Ticket To Paradise—you'll want a refund ‘Ticket to Paradise’ Doesn’t Deserve Clooney and Roberts ‘Ticket to Paradise’ Review: Yes, They Like Piña Coladas Ticket To Paradise star Kaitlyn Dever on George Clooney and Julia Roberts

PolitiFact - No research doesn t show the Earth was 2 degrees Celsius warmer 55 000 years ago

Former oil executive Dan Peña has made his stance on climate change clear. As far as he is concerned, it’s not an issue. Read more >> Don't bother with this Ticket To Paradise—you'll want a refundA-listers Clooney and Roberts are saddled with a D-list script in this rom-com about bickering exes who band together to stop their daughter's quickie marriage ‘Ticket to Paradise’ Doesn’t Deserve Clooney and Roberts'Without solid rom-com ground, 'Ticket to Paradise' rings hollow.' Sadly, the new Julia Roberts/George Clooney rom-com is a dud. Read beastobsessed's review of TickettoParadise: beastobsessed Duh ‘Ticket to Paradise’ Review: Yes, They Like Piña ColadasGeorge Clooney and Julia Roberts take another dip into romantic comedy with the Bali-set “Ticket to Paradise.” Meh.... Ticket To Paradise star Kaitlyn Dever on George Clooney and Julia RobertsDever dishes on working with Clooney and Roberts, as well as her favorite romantic comedy 'Ticket to Paradise' takes audiences on an OK trip with dear old friendsThis is George Clooney and Julia Roberts' fifth film together, and it coasts almost entirely on the charisma of its superstar leads and the massive amount of affection we in the audience have accrued for them over the years. Lucas Bravo tried to prank George Clooney on 'Ticket to Paradise' set“I was so amazed at how selfless they are,” Bravo said about Clooney and Roberts. Ticket to Paradise has arrived in theaters, offering a respite from horror movies this Halloween season in the form of a classic rom-com and getaway vacation to Bali.KNIJA60 Advertisement There’s nothing about this that isn’t fertile ground for a good old fashioned screwball comedy.Ticket to Paradise fails to be either romantic or comedic.Find Tickets When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The film stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney as David and Georgia, a divorced couple who fight about everything except how much they love their daughter. Played by Kaitlyn Dever, who has proven her range in serious projects like Dopesick and teen comedies like Booksmart), Lily is her parents' pride and joy until she chooses to marry a man she just met while on vacation in Bali. Bring a microscope with you to a screening of Ticket to Paradise and report back if you can find anything funny. SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) directed and co-wrote Ticket to Paradise, sure from the start about which stars he had to cast in order to make the story sing perfectly. Instead, it hinges on their daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), who plans on marrying Balinese seaweed farmer Gede (Maxime Bouttier) just a month after they meet on her trip to the gorgeous Indonesian island. The supporting characters are no slouches either, with Maxime Bouttier, Billie Lourd (American Horror Story), and Lucas Bravo (Emily in Paris) playing vital roles that bring both the laughs and the humanity to the proceeding. Clooney, it has well been established, has comedy chops, but there’s only so much he can do with no written material. Additionally, plenty of research went into Balinese customs and locations, despite the actors filming in Australia due to pandemic restrictions.) Nevertheless, Lily’s engagement proves to be the one thing able to unite her estranged parents David and Georgia (George Clooney and Julia Roberts), who hop on a plane to prevent the wedding. Related: Julia Roberts' 10 Best Movies, According To Letterboxd Screen Rant spoke to director Ol Parker about what inspired the premise of Ticket to Paradise, why audiences root so easily for George Clooney and Julia Roberts' onscreen romance, and how he crafted the role of Lily specifically for Kaitlyn Dever. His zings at his ex-wife eventually paint him as an unlikable jerk. Her parents are obviously not happy about it, so they hop a plane to Bali in the hopes of stopping her. Ol Parker Talks On Why Ticket to Paradise Is A Perfect Vehicle For George & Julia I loved Ticket to Paradise. Julia and George as bitter exes reminds me of Ocean's Eleven. Advertisement Kaitlyn Dever, so very funny in Booksmart , has a one-note character here: she is defined by being in love with her new boyfriend. What inspired the concept for you? Ol Parker: It was because my eldest daughter is 21. The problem is, there’s nearly nothing for George and Julia to work with here. She's making her own choices in life, all of which are smarter than I would make for her. He’s also madly in love with her, but he’s got even less motivation. They’re selling their own comfortable rapport, not their characters’ romantic tension. But it made me question what I'm bringing to her life, what she needs me for, and what guidance I can offer; what's hypocritical, etc. That was the genesis of the movie. If anything, Billie Lourd’s character has 10 times the personality (and dresses with more panache, too. More than a decade later, they hate each other. And from the very beginning, as soon as I knew it was a divorced couple, it was always George and Julia in my head. I remember calling Dan [Pipski], my co-writer, up and going, "We should do this movie. Ticket to Paradise Official Trailer [HD] The Bali of Ticket To Paradise is a joke." And if you make a film about a divorced couple, you need to believe that they were once married. They’re both worried she’s making the same mistake they did—getting married to someone too quickly, before you’ve seen them at their worst. Locals know best whether Parker’s depiction of Balinese nuptials is accurate. And obviously, apart from their manifest gifts and gorgeousness and general brilliance, they also have their shared history on and off-screen. Here we get a surface view of Balinese culture, seen only on a beach. Like you said, it takes you back to Ocean's Eleven. You just believe in them; you believe that they have a past because you've seen their past. No one goes to a grocery store in this movie. Sure, I sound like a grump, but when it comes to romantic comedies, it's only fun to suspend disbelief if they’re fun and fantastical enough. We've known about their past, and so we can piggyback on those movies, as it were. And also, people love their friendship. Here was an opportunity to dig in to a fascinating culture (google “Balinese monkey chant”) and present it against modernity, and we got nothing. Running time: 1 hour 44 minutes. In fact, the publicity of this has been based a lot on that. Both Dever and Bouttier are pleasant enough on their own—the former just showed off her rom-com chops last week in Hulu’s —but their actual relationship comes about too quickly to ever be convincing. When they do interviews, they do it together and they're very joshy. What is she going to do there? Her career plans have gone from the legal world to “hanging out. Which is true and all real; there's no fakery about it. They are very, very close. The location photography in this one is certainly pleasant (each character has their own “I’ve never seen anything more gorgeous” moment) so the fault here really lies with the writing and direction. Without solid rom-com ground, Ticket to Paradise rings hollow. But the thing that you most want from a romantic comedy is to want the people to get together at the end. You want to see the capital together, and they automatically bring that warmth and that desire.. I love them for resuscitating romantic comedies, but also you for writing it. Show us Kaitlyn Dever and Julia Roberts having mother-daughter time at the beach! Even near the end of the film, when everyone has kissed and made up (not really a spoiler!), we don’t get much actual family love. Who had the genius idea to cast Kaitlyn Dever as Julia Roberts' daughter? Ol Parker: That was also written for her. I had met her before, and we were friends already. She's obviously a once-in-a-generation actress, and also the nicest person. Any delights to be had only appear in the most random corners of the movie. I remember meeting her at a party and saying, "I'm writing something for you," and she's like, "Yeah, right." Because that's like a chat-up line—which it wasn't, obviously. So, it was really nice to send it to her and go, "You know that thing? I wasn't kidding. Georgia and David’s plane-mate Beth-Ann (Geneviève Lyons) and maid of honor Wren (Billie Lourd) also deserve shoutouts, even if Wren’s entire personality is being an alcoholic." It was always her, and that was really nice, because George and Julia already knew her work and had huge respect for her. She did it without reading—and not because of me. As soon as you go, "Do you want to be George and Julia's daughter?" she's like, "I'm in! Totally in. That's great." But telling them she was cast was a very happy day. They go, "Maybe he does have a clue." I was really surprised that it wasn't actually shot in Bali. How did you turn Australia into Indonesia? Ol Parker: It was a challenge. When you write, you never think it's gonna happen. I just thought I'd get a couple of research trips to Bali out of it, so it was a rude shock both that it happened and that it wasn't going to be in Bali. It was a challenge, but every movie has a million challenges. And it's how you overcome them, how you meet them and beat them, that is the fun. We had a crew in Bali. We couldn't go there because of the pandemic, but we had a crew shooting backdrops, and then we would then CGI them into the [scene] and change locations. We had a very clever production designer and a very good location manager. So, we got lucky. If you were going to shoot for the moon with your next film, where would you want to film or pretend to film? Ol Parker: The next one is in Alaska, unfortunately, in the dead of winter. If it happens, it's going to be a different beast. There was a moment during this, though, where there was a boat coming into the gorgeous beach and a helicopter shot at the boat. I was sort of like, "I think I've done this before," which is always a sign that you need to do something else. I seem to remember the shot from another movie that I made, so I need to get to Alaska. Finally, I heard from Maxime that his onscreen father was originally a consultant. Ol Parker: Yeah, we were looking for the guy and we couldn't find him. It was all on Zoom. And then we were in a meeting, talking about weddings and customs and rituals. He was talking, and I was thinking, "God, you're so handsome." He's so handsome and charming and lovely. At the end of the meeting, we said, "Would you mind coming out to my office?" He came up, and I was like, "Could you just read that speech?" He started reading, and I was like, "You're hired!" He was like, "What? What's going on here? What's happening?" I was like, "Do you want to be in the movies? Okay!" The woman that plays his wife, Maxime's mom, was a passport officer from Brisbane. None of them are actors, so it's really good for George and Julia to work with people that aren't [actors]. It was just great. About Ticket To Paradise Academy Award ® winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on the big screen as exes David and Georgia, who find themselves on a shared mission to stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made. From Working Title, Smokehouse Pictures and Red Om Films, Ticket to Paradise is a romantic comedy about the sweet surprise of second chances. Ticket to Paradise also stars Kaitlyn Dever as David and Georgia’s daughter Lily, Billie Lourd as Lily’s best friend Wren, Maxime Bouttier as Lily’s new fiancé, and Lucas Bravo as Georgia’s younger boyfriend. Check out our other Ticket To Paradise interviews here: Next: 10 Best Romantic Comedy Movies Of 2022 Ticket to Paradise arrives in theaters on October 21. .