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Julia Roberts: Clive Owen Is No George Clooney Prankster

Originally posted 03/08/2009 11:40AM

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 pals. "It was just good old-fashioned friendship."

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."

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