As someone who has spent most of her life amid the maelstrom of Hollywood, Julia Roberts knows how difficult it is to keep a relationship alive. She has seen couples break up that seemed destined to last a lifetime but, chastening in the eyes of others, she has known how to maintain a marriage, the one that unites her with the cinematographer Daniel Moder, for more than two decades.
She met him on the set of The Mexican in 2001, the following year they passed through the altar and, since then, they have had three children: the twins Phinnaeus Walter and Hazel Patricia, 17, and their youngest son Henry Daniel, 15. Now, in an interview with his co-star in Journey to Paradise, George Clooney, who also has a long relationship with Amal Alamuddin, has revealed his secret to such a long-standing love.
"I always say the same thing, and I stand firm on this. The secret is to give yourself a lot of love, in every way," the 54-year-old actress confessed to the news portal E! Online about the importance of physical contact between the two, something that Clooney has taken advantage of to joke that physical contact is also important.
"Well, that's a very good answer. I would say the same and, in fact, I would also hook up with Danny," said the interpreter, who after Roberts's laugh admitted that they are right "so close." Likewise, in a subsequent meeting with Access Hollywood, they both explained how they have done to maintain their friendship.
Clooney confessed that what captivated him about Julia was that she made him laugh, while she described him as "a true gentleman" in their first meeting, hence the journalist affected whether there was ever something between them or if they had "a no-dating policy" so as not to ruin their friendship "years and years before" the relationships they have now.
"Not going out with each other? I don't even think we needed to say it!" Confessed the actress, to which the actor explained that it never happened and, furthermore, in a very organic way: "Or Julia was always in a relationship, or it was me who was. So we strengthened our friendship. So nothing ever happened, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't fun for us. Come on, I don't think not dating was really a problem".
