Kaitlyn dever is a ‘once-in-a-generation’ star, according to ‘Ticket to Paradise’ director
Paradise Ticket Fans were running to the cinemas to see Julia Roberts and George Clooney as a bickering couple. But for writer Ol Parker, Kaitlyn dever was the third link between these two Hollywood stars.
“I think she’s a once in a generation actress,” Parker said to Yahoo Canada About Dever, the movie’s star daughter. “Kaitlyn I’d met before, we talked about something else and it hadn’t worked out, but I just thought…everything she does is amazing.”
“But she’s always the victim in things, she’s always surviving ghastly things, whether it’s drug addiction or sexual assault. So it was just really lovely to give her a part where she could be as beautiful and as warm, and as funny as she is in life.”
How Ol Parker draws the biggest Hollywood stars
Paradise Ticket The film brought back the glamour rom-com, which was a love story set in front of the stunning landscapes of Australia.
Roberts and Clooney portray the divorcing couple Georgia and David Cotton. They share a daughter named Lily (Dever). Lily recently graduated college and travels with Wren (Billie Lourd). Lily (Maxime Bouttier) meets Gede in Bali and the two fall in love. Lily is not pleased with her decision so her parents travel to Bali in the hope of stopping the wedding from ever happening.
Parker, who co-wrote this film with Daniel Pipski, has a pattern of creating stories with particular actors in mind — some of the most loved, successful and well-known stars.
In his previous film Mamma Mia! Here We Go AgainParker created Ruby Sheridan in Cher’s mind.
“I wrote it for Cher and she passed, and then I wrote back going, sorry I think you need to read it again,” Parker revealed. “Then she died again, and I wrote back going, it seems there is some confusion. We start filming in September 20th, and I need you to be in London.”
“She passed her second time. “She passed again. I believe she was stalked by me to do it. She gave up, gave in and came along and filmed. Now we are friends.
For Paradise TicketParker wrote to Roberts at the exact same time after developing the script with the A-list stars in mind. According to the filmmaker, both stars reached out to each other before agreeing to the film.
“They’re titans of the screen and they’re glamorous and gorgeous, and brilliant at what they do, but also because of their friendship on and off screen over the years, it just gave us so much inherited warmth,” Parker said. “Also credibility that they were once married, that they’re now not married, and also that you very much want them to be married again.”
“Richard Curtis said, you can write the best script in the world but if people don’t want to see your actors kiss, then you’re nowhere.”
The most underused actor from ‘Ticket To Paradise’
Kaitlyn Delver, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Julia Roberts make a great family unit to keep an eye on. Paradise TicketWe can’t underestimate the incredibly funny and endearing Billie Lourd who is Lily’s best friend.
Ol Parker was the daughter of Bryan Lourd (late Carrie Fisher) and Debbie Reynolds (late Debbie Reynolds). Paradise Ticket She is a talented actor, but she also has great acting skills.
“[Billie] sat on George’s lap when she was a baby, she knows them really well and that was really helpful,” Parker said.
Lourd was also acknowledged by the filmmaker as being “underused” throughout the film.
“She’s underused in the movie, I wish that we had more,” he said. “I’d love to write something to just put her at the lead because she’s clearly a brilliant comedian, and a lovely person.”
The appeal of a Hollywood romance-com
With Paradise Ticket proving particularly successful with audiencesOl Parker stated that he and Daniel Pipski were able to create this story about love and travel during COVID-19 restrictions.
“It was literally the opposite of what we were all living through,” Parker said. “It was an amazing relief and escape to be writing it together, to be in our heads on a beach, let alone thinking that it might one day happen.”
Parker pointed out that there was also a gap in romcom releases in recent decades. Paradise Ticket Relive the nostalgia of old movies.
“There aren’t that many rom-coms anymore and we’ve got two glamorous movie stars and gorgeous locations,” he said. “That was the idea, to make something that was kind of reassuringly familiar.”
“George’s favourite compliment on set, he’d come and look at a shot that we’d set up and when he liked it he would just shout ‘old school.’ It was very consciously a throwback to those times.”
Parker’s love for rom-coms is a result of a desire to make people happy, according to the filmmaker.
“It’s a tough thing to do and an incredible privilege, if you can succeed in any way,” Parker said. “I don’t sit down thinking, I write something optimistic that will bring joy. You start with an idea, start with characters, and see what happens.”
But there is nothing better, especially post-pandemic to be in a room full of laughter. It was amazing to see 500 people at the first screening, and to hear laughter again.
You can now own Ticket to Paradise on Digital. It will be available on Blu-Ray Jan. 17 in Canada.