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Life is good when you\u2019re Julia Roberts<\/a>. Not only are you incredibly successful, respected, and beloved, but you can also work with pretty much anyone you want to. <\/p>\n At this point, it would be easier to list the seminal actors and directors that she hasn\u2019t shared a bill with. She\u2019s shared romances with Hugh Grant and Richard Gere, teamed up with Sally Field and Dolly Parton, and taken instructions from Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, and more.<\/p>\n One director she hasn\u2019t worked with, though, is Luca Guadagnino\u2026 until now, that is. Roberts has been announced as the lead for the Italian\u2019s upcoming film After the Hunt. She\u2019ll be playing a professor at Yale University who must choose what side to take when an accusation of sexual abuse is made against one of her colleagues. Roberts has described the film as \u201cchallenging<\/a>\u201d and the film will no doubt continue Guadagnino\u2019s streak of hotly discussed releases.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Notting Hill star is just one of a number of famous faces on board with the project. Andrew Garfield, Ayo Edibiri, Michael Stuhlbarg and more are also on the call sheet, but there was one name that got Roberts particularly excited. In a group interview with Variety<\/a>, the Oscar winner told her colleagues that, despite being big fans of them all, she was really looking forward to getting to work with Chlo\u00eb Sevigny. <\/p>\n \u201cI was so excited and intimidated about meeting Chlo\u00eb,\u201d she revealed. \u201cWhen we were at my house, we\u2019re all sitting around the kitchen table, and Hazel [her daughter] was making herself some lunch, and we\u2019re talking about the material and rehearsing. Allan [Mandelbaum], our producer, he came in, and he goes, \u2018Chlo\u00eb should just be here in a couple minutes.\u2019 And I look up, and Ayo looks up, and we match eyes. Luca goes, \u2018What?\u2019 And I go, \u2018I\u2019m scared.\u2019 And Ayo goes, \u2018Me too.\u2019 And Hazel goes, \u2018I\u2019m leaving.\u2019 And then, like a minute later, the doorbell rang, and Hazel goes, \u2018I\u2019m leaving through the garage.\u2019 And truly we were so excited and intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n Sevigny will play a fellow professor who is friends with Roberts\u2019 character. She is also the institution\u2019s student liaison, which will undoubtedly play into the plot. This will be the star\u2019s second time working with Guadagnino, having appeared alongside Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Mark Rylance in his cannibal love drama, Bones and All. <\/p>\n Roberts has been one of the biggest stars in Hollywood for several decades, so you\u2019d think there\u2019d be nobody left that made her feel nervous. Sevigny\u2019s CV is just as impressive as hers, however. Known for pushing boundaries and challenging good taste, her work is as varied as it is controversial. Her breakout role was playing Lana Tisedel, the lover of a murdered transgender man, in Boys Don\u2019t Cry. In many ways, that performance still defines her legacy<\/a>. Collaborations with prominent arthouse directors Lars von Trier and Harmony Korine followed, as did appearances in more mainstream hits like American Psycho and Zodiac. Now, she is a bona fide superstar.<\/p>\n It\u2019s reassuring to know that even mega-celebrities like Julia Roberts can still get starstruck sometimes. We\u2019d love to know how Sevigny felt about meeting her, but she was probably just really chill about it. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still) Sun 28 September 2025 16:15, UK Life is good when you\u2019re Julia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,92338,88,32177,28465],"class_list":{"0":"post-188289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-chloe-sevigny","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-julia-roberts","12":"tag-luca-guadagnino"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}