Julia Roberts and George Clooney are two of the most beloved actors in Hollywood.
The two met in 2000 and then started off their long professional partnership.
However, their friendship has never turned romantic.
Instead, they’ve remained the best of buddies.
“We became instant friends,” Roberts toldJimmy Kimmelof her first meeting with Clooney.
“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 don’t like them and I will never change my mind.’
This is a good one,'” she stated.
Over the years, Roberts and Clooney have gushed over each other many times.
Meanwhile, things have always been completely platonic between the actors, despite their amazing chemistry.
Although they are very close to one another, their relationship never progressed to anything intimate.
Clooney added that his friendship with Roberts was too strong to progress into anything more.
“Julia was always in a relationship, or I was in a relationship.
And we were fast friends right away.
So it was nothing, but it’s been nothing but fun for us.
So, I don’t think that was ever really a thing.”
The actor admitted toThe New York Timesthat he and Roberts even have a hard time kissing each other.
“I told my wife [Amal Clooney], ‘It took 80 takes.’
She was like, ‘What the hell?'”
In addition toClooney and Roberts’ friendship, their families are also close.
Roberts is married to Danny Moder, andthe two share three children together.
Meanwhile, Clooney and his wife, Amal, have twins.
“Danny and I are great friends and love each other,” Clooney told People in 2016.
“What’s fun is it’s really like a family.
It makes it easy.
It’s really fun to go, ‘Hey, let’s do this movie together.'”
Roberts also chimed in, revealing that they continue to grow closer with each new family member added.
“What he’s saying is we’ve just stitched our lives closer together.
All these people that come into our lives; my husband, my children, his wife Amal Clooney.
We just keep stitching our lives closer together.”
Meanwhile, Roberts revealed that she and Clooney really do like each other and are genuine friends.
Roberts and Clooney’s friendship comes off as one for the books.
