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Julia Roberts says there's
an ocean of difference between working with Clive Owen and her other recent
costars, George
Clooney and Brad Pitt.
She didn't have to watch her back.
"What a relief. I didn't have
to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone," she says of
the on-set pranks by her Oceans Twelve
And fun. Roberts, 41, returns to the big
screen in the romantic caper Duplicity, in theaters March 20, reuniting
with her Closer costar Owen. She says Owen, 46, makes her laugh
constantly, which helped sparked instant chemistry onscreen.
"We have a
similar sense of humor," she says. "Our list of priorities in our personal lives
are not different. We are both happily married with families and lead a pretty
normal, unaffected existence within in this odd universe of show business that
we've both chosen to go into."
Roberts and Owen play spies
turned corporate operatives in the midst of an on-again and off-again love
affair trying to scheme and seduce each other using quick banter.
"I'm
Southern so I can talk really fast," says the Oscar-winning actress. "I grew up
on Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, His Girl Friday movies – that
rat-a-tat-tat talking cadence and that rhythm. I love that kind of thing."
One thing she doesn't love as much, at least right now, is the thought
of her three children – twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 4, and son, Henry, 1, joining
her and cameraman dad Danny Moder in show business.
"My first instinct
is that if my children wanted to be artists, that they wait," Roberts says. "I
would prefer that they just wait as long as they can." pals. "It was just good
old-fashioned friendship."