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‘Ticket to Paradise’ Review: Julia Roberts and George Clooney Contemplate a Second Chance at Love in an Old-Fashioned Rom-Com

Star power and glossy visuals save the day in a slender piece of silliness set in Bali.

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Taking a basic cue from the “Philadelphia Story” school of comedies about divorced couples giving it another shot, director Ol Parker (“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again,” writer of “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”) and co-writer Daniel Pipski position David (Clooney) and Georgia (Roberts) as a husband and wife that had it all for five brief years. That was before the lakeside house David built for them burnt to the ground and their happiness went up in smoke with it.

Complicating matters is the unexpected arrival of Georgia’s younger boyfriend, Paul (a thankless role for “Emily in Paris” star Lucas Bravo), an airline pilot. An awkward type who practically worships Georgia, the handsome flyboy unsurprisingly proposes marriage just when the plot demands another distraction to keep David and Georgia apart until rom-com convention determines they’re ready to start looking at each other with new and besotted eyes. 

There’s plenty of zingy repartee in early sequences showing the cantankerous divorcees declaring a truce in order to prevent Lily making what they’re certain will be a huge mistake. Naturally that’s before they’ve even met the hubby-in-waiting, but that’s beside the point and nothing less than sabotaging the nuptials will suffice in such an emergency.

Central to the appeal of rom-coms is the fact that everyone can guess the ending. Their success depends on the timing and execution of funny quips and situations en route to familiar and comforting affirmations of love and romance. After getting off to a promising start, “Ticket to Paradise” never exactly nosedives — that would be just about impossible with Clooney and Roberts in the frame — but often struggles to make the most of a setup that seems ripe for the comic misunderstandings, zany shenanigans and crossed wires that underpin this genre.

Whether David and Georgia are enacting their pretty dumb plans to steal the wedding rings and sow doubt in Gede’s mind, or engineering travel and transport mishaps that will throw arrangements into chaos, the film moves along well enough but rarely hits comic high notes or gathers the momentum to sweep audiences up in the mayhem. David’s unfortunate encounter with a dolphin, or a hotel room switcheroo after Paul’s sudden arrival, are further examples of moments that could have been fashioned into laugh riots but end up as gently amusing instead.

When Parker gets his groove on, the picture rocks, such as the sequence in which Clooney and Roberts bust so-bad-they’re-good dance moves to C+C Music Factory’s ’90s floor-filler “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” at a bar after one too many beer pong games. That’s about as raunchy and wild as it gets in a very PG-13 picture that never even suggests anyone’s having sex before — or even after — marriage.

It’s also good to see Balinese culture and days-long wedding rituals being accurately and respectfully depicted, as the final moment of romantic truth comes closer for the young couple and the parents of the bride-to-be. Filmed primarily in the Whitsunday Islands off northern Australia owing to Covid-19 restrictions making location shooting in Bali impossible, “Ticket” is truly given the look of paradise in the beautifully polished widescreen images of DP Ole Bratt Birkeland (“Judy”). The Aussie duo of production designer Owen Paterson (“The Matrix”) and costumer Lizzy Gardiner (“The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”) also make fine contributions toward creating of a place that seems a million miles away from all the worries of the world. For a slightly overlong 104 minutes, that’s a place many viewers will be happy enough to visit.

Reviewed at Event Cinemas George St., Sydney, Sept. 13, 2022. Running time: 104 MIN.

• Production: A Universal Pictures release and presentation of a Working Title production in association with Smokehouse, Red Om Films. Producers: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Sarah Harvey, Deborah Balderstone. Executive producers: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Julia Roberts, Lisa Roberts Gillan, Marisa Yeres Gill, Amelia Granger, Sarah-Jane Robinson, Sam Thompson, Jennifer Cornwell.
• Crew: Director: Ol Parker. Screenplay: Parker, Daniel Pipski. Camera: Ole Bratt Birkeland. Editor: Peter Lambert. Music: Lorne Balfe.
• With: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Billie Lourd, Maxime Bouttier, Lucas Bravo, Cyntia Dharmayanti, Genevieve Lemon, Ilma Nurfauzia, Agung Pindha, Ifa Barry, Dorian Djoudi, Romy Poulier, Charles Allen, Francis McMahon, Sean Lynch, Arielle Carver-O'Neill (English, Balinese dialogue)
• Music By: Lorne Balfe

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Julia Roberts began the interview with a question: “Is George causing problems already?”

Her friend and frequent co-star George Clooney had preceded Roberts on our video call, dialing in from the Provence estate he shares with his wife, Amal. But the room he was sitting in was so streaked with sunlight that Clooney could barely be glimpsed amid all the lens flares, and as Roberts joined us, he was pulling patterned window curtains shut to no avail.

“Are you trying to show how outer your inner radiance is with this flare?” Roberts said.

Clooney peered at her Zoom thumbnail. “You’re one to talk with that soft lens,” he cracked.

“I have a 25-year-old computer!” Roberts said.

Rat-a-tat teasing is how Roberts and Clooney prefer to communicate: “It’s our natural rhythm of joyful noise,” she said. Their rapport has sustained a big-screen partnership spanning several films, from “Ocean’s Eleven” in 2001 to their newest entry, the romantic comedy “ Ticket to Paradise ” (Oct. 21), which casts them as warring exes who reunite to stop the surprise wedding of their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) to a seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier) she met during a graduation trip to Bali. As her divorced parents team up, their old spark is rekindled; by the end of the movie, they’ve gone from exes to something like XO.

When I spoke to Roberts and Clooney in late August, no light was streaming through Roberts’s bay windows at all: It was only 6 in the morning in San Francisco, where Roberts and her husband, Danny Moder, live with their three teenage children. Roberts had requested the early start so that she could send the kids off to school after the interview, and she noted that she was no stranger to early rising: For one sunrise scene in “Ticket to Paradise,” she had a 3 a.m. call time, the earliest she’s ever had to report to set in her career.

“I had to get there at 1 a.m.,” Clooney joked, “because of the work they do on my face beforehand.”

“All the taping and spackle,” Roberts said, letting loose her famous laugh.

Here are edited excerpts from our conversation.

When you read “Ticket to Paradise,” did you each have the other in mind?

GEORGE CLOONEY They sent me the script, and it was clearly written for Julia and I. In fact, the characters’ names were originally Georgia and Julian. I hadn’t really done a romantic comedy since “ One Fine Day ” [1996] — I haven’t succeeded like Julia has in that forum — but I read it and thought, “Well, if Jules is up for it, I think this could be fun.”

JULIA ROBERTS It somehow only made sense with George, just based on our chemistry. We have a friendship that people are aware of, and we’re going into it as this divorced couple. Half of America probably thinks we are divorced, so we have that going for us.

CLOONEY We should be divorced because I’m married now, so that would be really bad. Just saying.

ROBERTS Also, George and I felt a lot of happy responsibility in wanting to make a comedy together, to give people a holiday from life after the world had gone through a really hard time. It’s like when you’re walking down the sidewalk and it’s cold outside and you get to that nice patch of sun that touches your back and you go, “Oh, yeah. This is exactly what I needed to feel.”

Is it true that the two of you had never met before “ Ocean’s Eleven ”?

ROBERTS The funny thing about meeting George was that in the press, people had already pegged us as pals. I’d read about going to a party at George’s, and I thought, “Well, I have to meet this guy at some point because he sounds like a great time.”

CLOONEY I’m fun, man!

ROBERTS There’s some alchemy about us that you can sense from a distance, I think.

CLOONEY I’ve always been drawn to Julia, for a lot of reasons. One of them is that she has forever been a proper movie star but she’s totally willing to not take herself seriously, and that makes such a difference in life because we’ve spent a lot of time together. She’s also a really gifted actress. She works really hard but you never see her sweat, and it’s the quality I appreciate most in my favorite actors, like Spencer Tracy.

Julia, you’re an executive producer of the film alongside George, and you obviously have extensive experience in romantic comedies. What point of view do you bring as a veteran of the genre?

ROBERTS This is a genre that I love to participate in and watch, and I think they are hard to get right. There is a really simple math to it, but how do you make it special? How do you keep people interested when you can kind of predict what is coming?

Has Hollywood had trouble answering those questions? There are way fewer romantic comedies than there used to be, and you’ve said that “Ticket to Paradise” was the first rom-com script since “Notting Hill” (1999) and “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997) that you really sparked to .

ROBERTS I think we didn’t appreciate the bumper crop of romantic comedies that we had then. You don’t see all the effort and puppet strings because it’s fun and sweet and people are laughing and kissing and being mischievous. Also, I think it’s different to be reading those scripts at 54 years old. I can’t read a story like “My Best Friend’s Wedding” where I’m falling off a chair and all these things because — —

CLOONEY You’d break a hip.

ROBERTS I’d break a hip! Oh, George. But it was nice to read something that was age-appropriate, where the jokes made sense, and I appreciated and understood what these people were going through. That’s what people want to see, your connection to a piece of work. They want to see the heart space that you have for it — not just, “Oh, do something funny because we love that.”

But funny is still important. There’s a scene in “Ticket to Paradise” where your characters drunkenly dance to the song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now),” embarrassing their daughter and her friends. Was that choreographed for maximum mortification, or did you just wing it?

ROBERTS People always want to choreograph it, but you can’t put steps to it. You have to just open the box and let the magic fly.

CLOONEY I remember early on in my career, I had to do a kissing scene with this girl and the director goes, “Not like that .” And I was like, “Dude, that’s my move! That’s what I do in real life!” It was sort of that same way here, because everyone had plans for how we should dance, and then we were like, “Well, actually we’ve got some really bad dance moves in real life.” Julia and I have done all those moves before, that’s the sickest part.

ROBERTS Oh, all around the world.

CLOONEY And Kaitlyn and Max were actually horrified, weren’t they?

ROBERTS It was hysterical, they were speechless. If Danny and I were doing that in front of our kids, they would be like, “Yeah, dig me a hole, I’m out of here.”

George, I haven’t moved on from that anecdote of the director criticizing how you kiss. I don’t know how you ever recovered.

CLOONEY And we kiss in this. But I don’t want to give the whole shop away.

It’s a romantic comedy. I think audiences are expecting a kiss.

ROBERTS One kiss. And we did it for, like, six months.

CLOONEY Yeah. I told my wife, “It took 80 takes.” She was like, “What the hell?”

ROBERTS It took 79 takes of us laughing and then the one take of us kissing.

CLOONEY Well, we had to get it right.

You filmed the movie in Australia, right?

CLOONEY We started in Hamilton Island, with all these wild birds, and Julia had the house down just below Amal and me and the kids. I would come out in the early mornings and be like, “Caa-caa,” and Julia would come out and be like, “Caa-caa.” And then we’d bring her down a cup of coffee. She was Aunt Juju to my kids.

ROBERTS The Clooneys saved me from complete loneliness and despair. We were in a bubble, and it’s the longest I’ve ever been away from my family. I don’t think I’ve spent that much time by myself since I was 25.

CLOONEY And also, when Danny and the kids did come visit, that meant they had to fly into Sydney and quarantine for two weeks by themselves before she could see them.

ROBERTS So close and yet so far. When we first got to Australia and we were all quarantining, you kind of go a little bit cuckoo. I remember right around Day 11, I was like, “Who am I? Where am I? What is this room that I never leave?” It’s a funny thing. I hadn’t really anticipated all that.

CLOONEY That’s why they invented alcohol.

ROBERTS Or chocolate chip cookies.

CLOONEY That too.

Julia, this is your first movie role in four years. You’ve said that you consider yourself a homemaker, but your children are all teenaged now — do you think your work-life balance will change when they are grown and out of the house?

ROBERTS I just take it all as it comes. I try to be super present and not plan, and I don’t have any upcoming acting jobs. Getting back to a routine feels really good. And I love being at home, I love being a mom. Being in Australia was really challenging because of all the Covid regulations, and I think it’s a real testament to friendship and to the creative environment we were in that it wasn’t even harder, because I’m not built to be one person anymore. It’s just not in my cellular data.

George, you recently took several years off from movie acting, too. When you have that lengthy period of time between roles, is there any anxiety as you are about to start up again?

CLOONEY If you don’t get that nervous feeling in your stomach every time you start work, then you’re way too confident for this job and it’ll show in your performance. The minute you think you’ve got it or you know what you’re doing, then you really shouldn’t be doing it anymore.

One of the co-stars of “Ticket to Paradise” is Billie Lourd, daughter of the late Carrie Fisher. Her father, Bryan Lourd, has been your longtime agent, George, so I would imagine you’ve known Billie since — —

CLOONEY Since she was born.

Is it wild to share scenes with an actress you’ve known since she was a baby?

ROBERTS Wilder still to be holding her baby while she’s on the set. How about that? Life just going right along.

CLOONEY Yeah. Fun being 61, let me tell you. It comes fast, man.

Sixty-one but still willing to do a shirtless scene — opposite an angry dolphin, no less.

ROBERTS And looking fine, thank you very much!

CLOONEY That was a pretty quick shot, I’ll tell you that. The dolphin looked better.

Kyle Buchanan , a Los Angeles-based pop culture reporter, writes The Projectionist column. He was previously a senior editor at Vulture, New York Magazine's entertainment website, where he covered the movie industry. More about Kyle Buchanan

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Universal has released the official trailer for Ticket to Paradise , the romantic comedy that reteams George Clooney and Julia Roberts. The trailer was just shown to exhibitors at CineEurope last week. It has an October 21 release date.

Directed by Ol Parker, the pic stars the duo in the story of a divorced couple who team up and travel to Bali to stop their daughter (Kaitlyn Dever) making the same mistake they made 25 years ago. Billie Lourd and Lily Lucas Bravo also star. Parker wrote the script with Daniel Pipski.

It marks the latest reteam for Oscar winners Clooney and Roberts after stints together on Ocean’s Eleven, Ocean’s Twelve  and  Money Monster.  Roberts also starred in Clooney’s 2002 feature directorial debut  Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

Ticket to Paradise hails from Working Title, whose partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner produce alongside Sarah Harvey and Deborah Balderstone; Smokehouse Pictures partners Clooney and Grant Heslov; and Red Om Films’ Roberts, Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill.

The film shot in Australia and at one point in January had to take a hiatus due to Covid cases among cast and crew as the Queensland region saw spikes in infection.

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Ticket to Paradise review: Julia Roberts and George Clooney’s first romcom together is a screwball joy

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Dir: Ol Parker. Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Kaitlyn Dever, Maxime Bouttier, Billie Lourd, Lucas Bravo. 12A, 104 minutes.

It’s a joy to watch Julia Roberts and George Clooney fall in love. It’s an even greater joy to watch them bicker. As embittered exes in Ticket to Paradise , flying to Bali in order to stop the whirlwind nuptials of their daughter ( Kaitlyn Dever ) to a local seaweed farmer (Maxime Bouttier), the duo have been provided a full buffet of snappish asides. They’re heirs to that great screwball tradition. Think back to Claudette Colbert, hitching a car ride with a coquettish flash of the leg in order to tease Clarke Gable in It Happened One Night . Or to Cary Grant at wit’s end in the face of Katharine Hepburn’s scatterbrained antics in Bringing Up Baby .

Here, when Georgia (Roberts) and David (Clooney) are – incidentally – sat next to each other at their daughter’s graduation, they tussle over armrests. When they’re – again, incidentally – booked together on the plane over, they lock themselves into a death grip while riding out a patch of rough turbulence. And, when they find out their hotel rooms adjoin – at this point, the coincidences seem a little suspicious – they immediately launch into an argument over David’s thunderous snores.

Ticket to Paradise immediately recalls the tempestuous relationship Roberts and Clooney shared as the romantic leads of the Ocean’s Eleven films. Though they’ve racked up a fair amount of screen time together, including in 2016’s Money Monster , this is their first genuine romantic comedy as a pair. That it works is largely because their methods haven’t changed. Aside from the joke in which a dolphin makes a B-line for David’s crotch (he later claims it’s a leg injury, but the evidence speaks for itself), and some drunken boomer dancing, there’s very little here that’s gurning or goofy.

The draw of a Roberts/Clooney vehicle, then, is the poker game of words played by two people who’ve always carried with them an air of security. They’re the appointed adults in the room, so it doesn’t really matter how ferociously they fight – you know they’re sensible enough never to dig their claws in so deep that it draws blood. Matters will always be settled. And love, inevitably, will blossom.

Director Ol Parker’s job is to simply paint around the two, in bright but soothing shades. He’s cast the film in the same mould as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018). The film presents Bali as a postcard-ready fantasy that’ll have eager romantics booking flights. But Parker also doesn't forget that it's a real place, with real people living in it. The locals – including Bouttier's Gede and his father, Agung Pindha's dryly humorous Wayan – are key to the story.

Parker’s script, co-written with Daniel Pipski, is far more sentimental than it is humorous. It’s rooted in a parent’s fear that their children are such perfect models of themselves that they’re bound to repeat the same mistakes. David, at one point, confesses that he’s at his most vulnerable in the highs of his daughter’s life – “that’s when you get scared, because you don’t want things to change”.

It’s familiar emotional territory, and Dever and Bouttier feel particularly underserved by how blandly straightforward their romance is, despite it supposedly providing the film’s central propulsion. Parker does seem somewhat aware of this, considering he’s taken the easiest route and thrown Billie Lourd into the mix, as Dever’s college bestie. She’s essentially playing the same scene-stealing, bon vivant weirdo as in 2019’s Booksmart : hysterically funny while always having a minimum of two day-glo-tinged cocktails glued to her hands. Emily in Paris ’s Lucas Bravo, too, delivers the perfect, totally witless comic reactions as Georgia’s French himbo pilot boyfriend Paul.

Combined, Lourd and Bravo provide a key antithesis to Roberts and Clooney’s sophisticated shtick. They’re the right ingredients. Parker uses them in the right amounts. It’s (almost) enough to justify the fact the film ends with a mid-jump freeze frame.

‘Ticket to Paradise’ is in cinemas from Tuesday 20 September

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Maureen Lee Lenker is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly with over seven years of experience in the entertainment industry. An award-winning journalist, she's written for Turner Classic Movies, Ms. Magazine , The Hollywood Reporter , and more. She's worked at EW for six years covering film, TV, theater, music, and books. The author of EW's quarterly romance review column, "Hot Stuff," Maureen holds Master's degrees from both the University of Southern California and the University of Oxford. Her debut novel, It Happened One Fight , is now available. Follow her for all things related to classic Hollywood, musicals, the romance genre, and Bruce Springsteen.

One thing we didn't have on our 2022 bingo cards: watching Julia Roberts and George Clooney dominate at beer pong.

That's exactly what they do in a key scene in Ticket to Paradise , in which their characters, bitter exes David and Georgia, face off against their daughter, Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), and her fiancé, Gedde (Maxime Bouttier), in an epic drinking game.

Though no beers were actually consumed while filming, that didn't mean the entire cast didn't have as much fun shooting the scene as audiences will watching it. Much of the day was as loose and playful as it looks.

"It was funny because when we got to the set, everyone was like, 'Okay, we're going to talk about the scene,'" Clooney tells EW. "Julia and I were like, 'Let's just shoot it, man. Don't worry. We know what to do. We've been down this road a few times.'"

Adds writer-director Ol Parker, "There was a choreographer available to them if they wanted, but they didn't. They'd much rather just go for it and see what happened."

Clearly Clooney and Roberts knew what they were doing, because Parker ended up using the very first take of Clooney landing a ping-pong ball in a red cup. "That is his first take," says Parker. "When he puts the ball in and goes off and dances — that set the tone."

"There was real shock," laughs Clooney. "Shock on the faces of the younger actors."

"I think people thought we might warm up," adds Roberts. "They thought we'd start off a little slow, and we just came in going 100 percent from the beginning — and we left some people speechless."

Both Clooney and Roberts describe that day of filming as one full of laughter ("It's like she swallowed the sun," Parker says of Roberts' inimitable laugh). And it culminates in a hilarious sequence, which not only features the two of them making more and more unlikely shots as their state of intoxication increases, but also showcases Clooney doing some true dad dance moves to House of Pain's "Jump Around."

When EW asked if Clooney or Roberts needed to bone up on the song to prepare for the sequence, Roberts slyly replies, "No boning necessary," as Clooney adds, "There was no boning in the film." As Roberts points out, it is a PG-13 movie after all.

But in all seriousness, Parker reveals that Clooney actually had a far more personal connection to "Jump Around" than he realized when he chose the song. "'Jump Around' is George's closer at parties," the director says. "When I'd chosen the tracks and I sent them to them, George wrote back going, 'Nice — 'Jump Around' is my go-to dance song for the end of parties.' I was like, "Cool, so that's going to be fine.'"

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Moreton, which is fringed with protected beaches and washed by aqua-hued waters, served as one of the outdoor film sets where beach scenes from the movie, which features Roberts and Clooney as a divorced couple who travel together to Bali to try to stop their daughter from marrying a man she just met, were filmed in December 2021. The island is home to Tangalooma Island Resort , which boasts a range of accommodation types from hotel rooms to beachfront villas and was the setting for the dolphins swimming scene and other coastal segments.

However, interior shots (Roberts' and Clooney's hotel rooms, for example) were a stage set at Gold Coast Studios, while the Long Pavilion at Qualia resort on Hamilton Island served as the fictional resort's lobby and bar. An incredible Tangalooma sunset does have a major cameo toward the end of the movie.

"Only a 75-minute ferry ride from Brisbane, we often position ourselves as a 'conveniently remote tropical paradise,' with our seasonal temperatures, blue waters, tropical palms and relaxed island vibe perfectly fitting the Bali description," said Bernie O'Keefe, Tangalooma's Director of Marketing.

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'Notting Hill' turns 25: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant then and now

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" Notting Hill " is officially turning 25 years old.

The iconic romantic comedy tells the story of a famous actress, Anna Scott, who starts a romantic relationship with divorcee William Thacker after they meet when she visits his bookstore.

Here is what the star-studded cast has been up to since the film's release.

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Julia Roberts was already a two-time Academy Award nominee for her roles in "Steel Magnolias" and "Pretty Woman," and had starred in classics like "Mystic Pizza" and "My Best Friend's Wedding," before taking on the role of Anna Scott in "Notting Hill."

She went on to star in classics such as "Runaway Bride" and "Erin Brockovich," which earned her an Academy Award and BAFTA win.

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Roberts later starred in "The Mexican," "Ocean's Eleven" and its sequel, "Mona Lisa Smile," and "Charlie Wilson's War." Her roles in iconic movies did not end there, as she went on to star in "Duplicity," "Valentine's Day," "Eat, Pray, Love" and "Mirror Mirror."

The actress received another Academy Award nomination when she starred in "August: Osage County," alongside Meryl Streep and Juliette Lewis, playing members of a dysfunctional family. She then starred in "The Normal Heart," "Mother's Day," "Money Monster," "Wonder" and "Ben Is Back."

She starred in her first TV series, "Homecoming," on Amazon Prime in 2018, and in another TV show, "Gaslit," in 2022. Roberts appeared alongside George Clooney, for the sixth time, in "Ticket to Paradise."

Most recently, she starred in the thriller "Leave the World Behind."

Roberts was married to Lyle Lovett from 1993 to 1995. She then married Danny Moder in July 2002, and they share three children; twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, and son Henry.

Hugh Grant was already a Golden Globe and BAFTA Award winner for his role in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," and was known for "Nine Months" and "Sense and Sensibility," before starring as William Thacker in "Notting Hill."

Shortly after starring in the movie, he starred in two other iconic romantic comedies, "Love Actually" and "Bridget Jones's Diary," and later its sequel. He went on to star in "About a Boy," Music and Lyrics" and "Cloud Atlas."

He continued to choose successful projects, starring alongside Meryl Streep in "Florence Foster Jenkins," alongside Nicole Kidman in "Paddington 2" and in "A Very British Scandal," which earned him Golden Globe, BAFTA and Emmy Award nominations.

Grant received his second Emmy nomination for his role in the miniseries "The Undoing," later starring in Netflix's "Glass Onion."

Most recently, he has starred in "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" and "Wonka."

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Grant famously dated Elizabeth Hurley from 1987 to 2000, and remains good friends with her. He married Anna Eberstein in 2018, and they have three kids; son John, and a daughter and second son whose names have not been released. He also has two children with Tinglan Hong, with whom he had a brief romance.

Emma Chambers mostly had small parts on television before playing Honey in "Notting Hill," a role she is most known for.

She would go on to star on the TV shows "How Do You Want Me?," "Pond Life" and "The Vicar of Dibley."

The actress married Ian Dunn in 1991, and was married to him until her death in 2018. She died following a heart attack at the age of 53.

Hugh Bonneville had small roles in film and television before starring as Bernie in "Notting Hill."

Later, he starred in "The Cazalets," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "Iris," which earned him a BAFTA nomination, "Man to Man" and "Courting Alex." From 2012 to 2013, he starred in "Twenty Twelve," earning two more BAFTA nominations, later starring in "Monuments Men" and "Paddington."

From 2010 to 2015, he starred as Robert Crowley in "Downton Abbey," receiving a Golden Globe, two Emmy Award and five SAG Award nominations, with two SAG Award wins. He then starred in "Paddington 2" and the films "Downton Abbey" and "Downton Abbey: A New Era."

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Most recently, he starred in "The Gold," "The Greatest Auction," "Better Than Fine" and "W1A."

Bonneville married Lucinda Williams in 1998, with the couple announcing their separation in September 2023. They share a son named Felix.

Gina McKee was known for her work in television, having won a BAFTA Award for her role in "Our Friends in the North," before starring as Bella in "Notting Hill."

She continued to act consistently, starring in "The Zookeeper," "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," "The Lost Prince," "The Forsyte Saga" and "Atonement." She appeared in various television shows, including "Missing," "The Borgias," "By Any Means" and "Hebburn," before starring in "Phantom Thread."

After appearing in a series of television shows, McKee then starred in "My Policeman" and "The End We Start From," most recently appearing in "National Theatre Live: Dear England."

McKee has been married to Kez Cary since 1989.

James Dreyfus was known for his various roles on television before playing Martin in "Notting Hill." Later, he starred in "Gimme Gimme Gimme," "Bette" and "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London."

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From 2012 to 2015, he starred in "Mount Pleasant." Most recently, he starred in "Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal" and appeared in "Supernova" and "The Kindred."

Ryhs Ifans received a BAFTA Award nomination for his portrayal of Spike in "Notting Hill." In the years following, he starred in "The Replacements," "Vanity Fair" and "Hannibal Rising."

Later, he starred alongside Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," and in "The Informers," "Nanny McPhee Returns," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" and "The Five-Year Engagement."

He then played the villain in "The Amazing Spider-Man," and appeared in "Elementary" and "Madame Bovary." From 2016 to 2019, he starred in the series, "Berlin Station," appearing in "Alice Through the Looking Glass" and "Snowden" at the same time.

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Next, he starred in "Phantom of the Open," later returning to his villain role in "Spider-Man: No Way Home." Most recently, he starred in " House of the Dragon ," "Nyad" and "Mother Couch." He has also appeared on stage in the plays "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," "Don Juan in Soho" and "King Lear."

Tim McInnery had appeared in various shows prior to playing Max in "Notting Hill."

He would go on to appear in many TV movies and as a guest on a number of shows throughout the early 2000s, including "Doctor Who," "Hustle" and "Midsomer Murders," before appearing in "Black Death" and "Johnny English Reborn."

He then starred in "Castles in the Sky," "Automata" and "The Comedian's Survival Guide." He later appeared in five episodes of "Game of Thrones," as well as in "Sometimes Always Never" and "Marooned Awakened."

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Later, he appeared in the shows "The Serpent" and "Ten Percent," most recently starring in "One Day" and "Stromboli."

McInnery is married to Annie Gosney.

The role of Rufus the Thief in "Notting Hill" was Dylan Moran's first acting job. He went on to star in "How Do You Want Me?" "Sean of the Dead" and "Black Books," which earned him two BAFTA Awards.

He then starred in "Tristram Shandy," "The Decoy Bride," "Calvary," "Metal Heart" and "Pixie." Most recently, he appeared in episodes of "Stuck" and "The Witcher: Blood Orgin."

Moran was married to Elaine Moran from 1997 to 2022. They share two children, Siobhan and Simon.

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