George Clooney & Julia Roberts on Becoming Friends, Pulling Pranks & New Movie Ticket to Paradise

Our guests tonight are two of the biggest movie stars on the planet Earth. Combined, their movies have grossed more than $11 billion. And they're going for 12 in their fifth movie together, Ticket to Paradise opens in theaters a week from tomorrow. Please welcome George Clooney and Julia Roberts. Thanks for, I assume you know each other, yes? We've just met, backstage. How well do you really know each other? Like, do you know each other's middle names? Oh, yes. I don't know, that's a good question. Timothy. Oh, yeah. She knows me better than I know you. I'll give you a hint. Rose. No, it starts with an F. I have to be careful how I do this. Yeah, you should be. Francis. No. Oh, OK, never mind. God, I really thought you would know that, George. Oh, I'm sorry. Wow, you really came out with that Timothy so quickly. I mean, that's amazing. I did, and I'm kind of impressed with myself, because God knows I'm a little talked out. What about George's birthday? Do you know his birthday? May. Ooh. 1913. 7? May 6th. Really close. Oh, when's my birthday? I have no idea. Wow. I, by the way, don't remember my own birthday, so in fairness. Well, my birthday is coming up. Oh, it is? Yes. So someone write it down for George. You better do something. It's the 28th of October. Oh, sure, I was going to say that. When do you recall, or maybe you don't remember, but when do you remember becoming aware of each other in a professional sense? Oh, I do know this. It was the baths, I think. It was like, it was wild. What was it professional? OK, the first time that I was swooning over George Clooney was, could be first and last time. Yeah. Was on the TV show, Sisters. Oh, yeah. On Sister. I was Sister. Yes. Well, you sell a ward's boyfriend. That's right. Falconer. Yeah, Falconer. It's a good name. Falconer. Wow. Yeah, Falconer. And I actually auditioned for Mr. Keaton. Didn't get it. Oh, she was in my eye. I had my eye on her then, because I didn't get a job. I don't know if you guys know this. You both kind of had your big breaks at the same time. March 1990, Pretty Woman came out. You became, obviously, a huge star. I know what you're going to do. Oh, no. Do you really? OK, go ahead. I don't like being between you guys. I'll tell you that right now. I'm going to tell you why. This is a small town, my friend. And a buddy of mine called and said, a friend of mine who did a show with you needed to get a clearance. So go ahead. OK. Yeah, we look for a clip. Come on. One month later, after Pretty Woman, George hit the airwaves in a big way, right here on ABC, with a show called Sunset Beat. Yep. What's the matter? It's no good. It's no good, man. Oh, that hair, like a cocker spaniel. Beautiful. Leather vest. You kind of look like a cocker spaniel. Brother, I became obsessed with this show after hearing about it today. And I looked it up. Did you binge it? I wish I could. It's not, unfortunately, not streaming. No, no. George played an undercover cop. That was an undercover cop. I'm an undercover cop on a Harley during the day and a rock star at night. A rock star at night. Wow, dreams do come true. Seven episodes. Only seven? Seven, then they shut us down. I don't know why. Yeah, well, I also learned they canceled it after two. And then four years later or something, they put the other episodes on. I think they're like, oh, crap, George is a big star. We better put these on TV. Oh, yeah, how smart they saved us. When was the first time you met each other for real? The first time we met was for Ocean's 11. And the whole set was in Vegas. So you guys really, I mean, that's quite a place to bond in Las Vegas together. Well, I mean, we bonded before that. We met, and we had a couple of meetings beforehand. But we became, not to speak for you, George, but I will. We became like instant friends. 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, I don't like them, and I will never change my mind. And then there's some people. Like Timothy over here. My GTC, who you go, OK, I'm going to know this person until the end of time. This is a good friend. That's nice. You've been really good friends. That's nice, and that was quite a, I mean, that movie was Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck. Matt Damon. Who? Don Cheadle. I don't know who that is, but. Matt Damon. Matt who? Matt Damon. He was in that movie? D-A-M-O-N. Middle name, Edward. Wow. Is that true? You made that up? You did? Oh, she made it up. You made that up. Like, it's total bulls**t. No, he's got a dumb middle name, as I remember. I don't remember exactly what it is, but it's dumb. Will somebody look that up? Yeah, he's got a ridiculous middle name. Somebody look it up. Can somebody get on that, please? Somebody in the audience. Right, he was in it, but let's just. Don Cheadle. Don Cheadle? Oh, yeah, Matt Damon's middle name is Paige, with an I. Paige. Yeah. That makes me love him even more. Paige is the name of my best friend, Paige. Yeah, so Paige, sure, yeah. Matt Damon said this, and Matt Paige Damon said about George gambling, he's the unluckiest guy at a table by far. I sat there and watched him lose 25 straight hands of blackjack in a row. It's true. Unlucky or just stupid. OK, well, at least you're unlucky at something, because I would say you're doing pretty good at everything else. Julia, all of us were in, we stayed at the, it was a Bellagio, I think, in L.A. A Bellagio, gorgeous hotel. And we didn't know what hit them. It was literally like a bunch of eight-year-olds got in. Rebels run the palace. It was terrible. My pal Richard Kind, who you know, is an actor, very funny. I remember when Richard came to visit, and we were staying down in these rooms down at the bottom of the casino. And we didn't have a, we had a roll-away bed for Richard. And we were all up drinking and talking, and Pip was there, and pretty boy Damon was there, and all that. And Richard falls asleep on his roll-away bed. Whilst we're all kind of chatting, we're having a little cocktail party around him in his cot. And we take the cot, and we wheel it up into the middle of the casino and leave him there. Come on. For real? I did. There are a lot of, like, old ladies with that thing, like, what the hell's that guy doing? George Clooney and Julia Roberts are with us. Their movie's called Tickets to Paradise. We'll be right back. Tell her the wedding is off. Bring her home. Well, you know, whenever we say don't to Lily, she just hears do. I say we go in 100% there for her, and always just supportive and loving. And that's how we trick her into dumping Mr. Seaweed. That's interesting. I'm thinking about a Trojan horse sort of thing. Make her think we're OK with the wedding, and then once we're in, we get her to end it herself. That's literally what I just said. I don't remember anything about a Trojan horse. It's a very funny premise. You guys play a couple, or a divorced couple. Divorced couple. You hate each other, and I would imagine that's fun to play. That was fun. I hate him. I think he's still secretly in love with me, but that's a different thing. She spends a lot of time swooning over me. He's like, oh, God, I love her so much. What can I do to get her back? She couldn't have enough of me, and she kept chasing me around a lot. At some point, eventually, she just gave in, you know, and broke me. You know that emoji that has hearts? She was just always like, fine, really. Or the cartoons where the tongue rolls out like a tie. That was exactly what she did. And that's the film. That was very enjoyable to watch, by the way. Thanksgiving with our families is really fun. Oh, yeah. You shot this in Australia. I know it's set in Bali, but you shot it in Australia. Beautiful, obviously. You jump in with dolphins. Were those real dolphins? No. No, they're not. Fake dolphins. I was wondering how you train dolphins to act with you. But did you see Flipper? Yeah, but you know what? You know, they're doing weird things to Flipper. Let's be honest. Peanut butter all over the hand. Flipper was maybe under the influence of a dart or something like that, I think. Do you think? I loved that show. Sure. I loved that show. Yeah, they went through like 14 Flippers the first season. Dead, dead, dead, dead. OK, let's get back to the movie. Let's get back to the movie. I don't want to know this. But you can't eat a good Flipper all at once. Oh. Don't talk. Don't encourage him. Do not encourage him. And George, you take your shirt off and you're in relatively good shape. Yeah. Get your tickets. He takes his shirt off and later. And later what? What? Huh? What did she say? If you, what is your like general body hair situation? Really what I'm getting at is. Did I wax before it? Did you wax before it? Well, I have a person, you know, that comes in and just shaves the back and shaves the shoulder. You have a groomer? Someone who grooms you? No, I don't have a groomer. No. That would be kind of weird. You just went for, you just, that was. Why am I in the middle? I just don't, I'm not comfortable. Well, she's just mad because her, her back. He was as smooth as a dolphin and it really became. Oh, God. Julie, does George leave you out of his pranks? Like, I know that some people. Leave me out? Excuse me. Do you, did you recall in the list of cast members of Ocean's 11, I'm the only girl. Yeah. I was like shooting fish in a barrel. Yeah. I would fall for everything. Oh, interesting. I would think that maybe like you would be exempt from it. No, I was exempt. She would crawl down the hallway and put plastic over the toilet seats. And she did all that like grade school stuff. Cellophaning the toilets. It's classic. But here's the key, ladies and gentlemen. Grown woman. You have to, okay. I was less grown then. You have to either dim the lights or unscrew the light bulbs, because if they come in and turn on a bright hotel light, it will shine off the cellophane and ruin the joke. That's a really good tip. Yeah. It takes a little extra time, but it's worth it. And also it really depends on if you're doing one or two. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Then you got leftovers. There you go. Yeah. That leaves a hole. Lucas Bravo was here the other night. Wasn't he great? He seemed lovely. You know, he's not really French. He's super French and you kiss him in the movie, but. On his first day. I was tickled by this because he said something to the effect of, and which I'm sure, George, you get a lot. Like, oh, George Clooney, we know he's a prankster, so I'm gonna get him. Which I was just like, that's just a terrible, it's a terrible idea. It's a fool's errand, I think. It just opens the door to horror. So he told me about this prank and then showed me a picture of his prank. Poor lamb. It was a mild disaster. This was his prank. He dressed up like Batman. Like classic Batman. Original Batman. Like Adam West Batman. And I'm dressed up like I'm not quite sure what. And you, and that's his prank on you. Yeah. Yeah, it does beg the question. He got me. Who's getting the last laugh on this one? And now he's worried you're gonna get him back for this. I will. I don't have to, right? I'm done. Your work is done. My work is done. He's still one up, I think. You have to understand, Jimmy and I are a team. And he'll send me a stationery of just people's names. Like, you send me Brad Pitt's stationery, and I send letters to people from Brad Pitt. And horrible letters. I mean, I saw Meryl Streep the other night, I had sent her a letter years ago with a bunch of CDs that were dialect coach. And I sent it from Brad, a bunch of CDs from Meryl Streep. And I said, you know, this guy helped me with my accent in Troy. I thought maybe he could help you. And Meryl said she avoided Brad for like five years. And he sent me literally gold embossed, and maybe we'll get in trouble with this. Yeah, maybe. I don't know, possibly, yeah. Might get in trouble. Should I say it? Yeah, go ahead. Okay, I don't know what they can do. The White House stationery of Bill Clinton. You know, Bill Clinton's actual stationery. And I send actors all the time letters from Bill Clinton about how much he loved their movie. Which, I guarantee you are hanging up in their homes. So if anyone's watching, take the picture, Dan. Take it, Dan. It's a lot of fun, because you can get away with a lot that I can't, so. We, you know what we're gonna do, if you don't mind. When we come back, we have this little experiment that I'd like. Are we gonna wax George? Well, no. That sounds like so much fun. We're not that far off, actually. You guys have done a lot of movies together. You're obviously very close. Yeah. We want to find out if you, Julia, can recognize George's face just by touch. So what we'll do. Oh, I don't have to touch his hairy back. You don't have to touch his back. My back's not hairy. A group of men, and you will feel their faces like the Lionel Richie hello video. Oh. And then we will see. Wait, what group of men? Don't worry, you'll see soon. Julia Roberts and George Clooney, we'll be right back.