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\n\tEXCLUSIVE: An AI version of Julia Roberts<\/a> would be doomed from the start. A computer program could never replicate her signature gleaming smile \u2014 the one that lights up\u00a0Notting Hill\u00a0and\u00a0Pretty Woman\u00a0\u2014 or the inner turmoil that tortures Alma, the Yale philosophy professor she captures so astutely in Luca Guadagnino<\/a>\u2019s riveting drama\u00a0After the Hunt<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s an actor of quiet ambition, fire and energy who every so often unleashes a raw power that infuses a character with life and truth. It\u2019s her best role since she played the titular\u00a0Erin Brockovich\u00a0a quarter of a century ago, collecting an Academy Award along the way. On Sunday, the star is a best dramatic actress nominee at the Golden Globes for\u00a0After the Hunt.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJulia Roberts and Luca Guadagnino on \u2018After the Hunt\u2019 set<\/p>\n

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\n\tJust the other day, Richard Curtis, who penned\u00a0Notting Hill, voiced a belief that AI can never replace an actor, a screenwriter or any filmmaking creative.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t believe it\u2019s possible either,\u201d Roberts insists. \u201cI think that at the root of every book and play and movie and TV show and essay and article is someone\u2019s heart and soul, and those are not manufacturable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAre we at a dangerous crossroads?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYes,\u201d she responds. \u201cI think it\u2019s interesting what AI can do for medicine, things like that. I think that\u2019s something that as a world we should be so proud of and interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut she doesn\u2019t engage in AI, and she\u2019s \u201cnever used ChatGPT because I think it\u2019s a slippery slope, right? Anytime you find that shortcut for something, and at first you go, \u2018Oh, this is great.\u2019 But is it?\u201d Her voice sounds troubled.<\/p>\n

\n\tThese are concerns, too, for the future of the theatrical moviegoing experience.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoberts shakes her head in agreement and says: \u201cI think I like to maintain a robust sense of optimism for all things. I remember, there was a moment during Covid where I was talking to Bryan Lourd, my agent. We had this long conversation, and I got off the phone with him and \u2026 it was a moment where I thought, \u2018It\u2019s over. We\u2019ll never be in a movie theater again.\u2019 I just sat in my little rocking chair and just wept.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe tears came, she tells me, at \u201cthe idea of that part of our culture being gone was so heartbreaking because I do find it so meaningful and so fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tEspecially now, she continues, \u201cwith everybody with their heads down like this\u2026\u201d She lowers her head, as if reading a cell phone. \u201cWhere else do you sit with a group of people where everybody has their heads\u00a0up, and you\u2019re all kind of sharing energetically the same story? It\u2019s a really unique thing to do in the theater \u2014 and in the movie theater\u2014 and the idea of that disappearing forever, it\u2019s too heartbreaking for me to believe it could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s tricky though, isn\u2019t it, what with the theater of war that Netflix and Paramount are waging<\/a> over the future of Warner Bros? \u201cListen,\u201d Roberts sighs, \u201cit\u2019s all dollars and cents, right? So hopefully, people keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAyo Edebiri<\/a> and Julia Roberts in \u2018After the Hunt\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYannis Drakoulidis \/Amazon<\/p>\n

\n\tAs much as\u00a0After the Hunt\u00a0follows a clash of cultures \u2014 the cancel kind, plus social and moral differences \u2014 that follow when Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), one of Alma\u2019s students alleges that faculty member Hank (Andrew Garfield) sexually assaulted her, it\u2019s the beautifully bizarre, damaged, wonderful marriage between Alma and Frederick, her psychologist husband (Michael Stuhlbarg) that grips.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018After The Hunt\u2019: Read The Screenplay From First-Time Scribe Nora Garrett That Refuses To Offer Easy Answers<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tNora Garrett wrote the screenplay, but it\u2019s Guadagnino\u2019s brilliant imagination that ensures Alma is the troubled beating heart of this film. And it\u2019s clear from our conversation that Roberts leapt at the opportunity to work with him. The result for her is a sublime performance; unmissable for me.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe\u2019s one of the most thoughtful, knowledgeable, deep, passionate people she\u2019s ever met, Roberts says. \u201cIt goes on and on \u2014 what he knows, what he can absorb and comprehend and learn and retain and then share in a variety of languages. I mean, it\u2019s kind of astonishing. I\u2019ve never really encountered a person like him,\u201d Roberts says as she continues to richly exalt her Sicilian artistic benefactor.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoberts believes that he was a springboard for \u201cmy enthusiasm. \u2026 I think everything he said I wrote down, I was constantly making notes, thinking, \u2018I have to look up who this person is. I need to see what this book is about.\u2019 Just to create this sense of the academic world as its own universe,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

\n\tI share Roberts\u2019s enthusiasm for Guadagnino, having been a fan ever since Tilda Swinton tipped me off about his feature\u00a0debut,\u00a0The Protagonists, which she starred in for him back in 1999.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the Hunt\u00a0is\u00a0studded with references to Alma and Frederick\u2019s marriage. At one point, Garfield\u2019s Hank belittles the idea of Frederick because he\u2019s at home preparing a cassoulet for their supper, but Alma staunchly defends him: \u201cHe\u2019s my husband. He\u2019s always going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRoberts says that she\u2019s had some really profound conversations with friends about the marriage in the movie, citing one in particular she had with George Clooney<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s probably the most serious conversation we\u2019ve had in 30 years. It had so much to do with the marriage story in the movie and how he felt about that. I think that George, you, myself, we\u2019re kind of all of a certain age where we really appreciate when a story, a book, a movie \u2014 something that shows us the layers and the layers and the layers of something.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMost of the scenes involving Roberts and Stuhlbarg are when Alma and Frederick are alone together. The two actors developed a close rapport, though it would seem that both approach things differently, a comment that elicits giggles from Roberts.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMichael Stuhlbarg and Julia Roberts in \u2018After the Hunt\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\tHow so, I venture to ask? It\u2019s something to do with how they each treated their copies of the script; Stuhlbarg\u2019s pages were so\u00a0pristine, Roberts recalls. \u201cHis notes were tiny. He had these straight lines and these small squiggly lines, and it was like hieroglyphics. And my script notoriously looks like it\u2019s spent the night in a hamster cage. It\u2019s my own madness, one that I never truly took note of until I looked at Michael\u2019s script. And so I think that we melded within our differences. We just liked being with someone who was so different. And we also just had a real comfort in sharing physical space. I think he was comfortable with me physically. That scene in the kitchen where he\u2019s on his knees and he\u2019s got his head in my lap? We just understood our space together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film smartly foreshadows what will befall Alma and Maggie and Hank. When Alma and her students discuss Michel Foucault\u2019s ideas concerning the panopticon \u2014 the idea that people can be controlled by extreme surveillance \u2014it\u2019s a foreboding of the public torture that Alma will endure because of her reaction to Maggie\u2019s ordeal. Another instance is when Stuhlbarg\u2019s Fredrick notes that seeking tenure will make Alma above accountability, which one can relate to the sheer lack of accountability we observe at the highest echelons of public life.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Luca Guadagnino And \u2018After The Hunt\u2019 Cast Talk Woody Allen Inspiration & The Film\u2019s Politics: \u201cIt\u2019s Not About Making A Manifesto Of Old-Fashioned Values\u201d \u2014 Venice<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cListen,\u201d says Roberts, \u201cthe timeliness of the parallels of just the idea of people striving to be in positions of power \u2014 for lack of a more interesting word \u2014 for the ultimate goal of not being responsible and accountable, that\u2019s the horror of the modern world right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRoberts finds it \u201cgreat and interesting\u201d to take \u201cthis massive horror\u201d and put it into the arena of academia. It is, she says, \u201ca place that\u2019s small enough that you can see the whole, you can see every cog in the wheel. Because sometimes I just feel like I read the newspaper and you almost can\u2019t comprehend\u2026\u201d Her face suddenly fills with anguish. \u201cI think that\u2019s very Luca to make something that you really can hold and examine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSo what ails Alma? Roberts reckons \u201cher genesis is pain. \u2026 The tree of Alma, that\u2019s where it starts. And so I think to understand why she is the way she is and speaks the way she does and performs the way she does, whether at home or at school, it\u2019s all trauma. \u2026 How did she find a place, make a decision to say to herself, \u2018How can I best make it work for a life?\u2019 and part of it is the masonry, right? You build the wall. The bricks of her wall are made of all these philosophers and all these concepts and all these things that she can proclaim from on high, because if you\u2019re talking about all these other people and all these other things, you\u2019re never talking about yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJulia Roberts in \u2018After the Hunt\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\tThe reason Alma and Frederick\u2019s marriage \u201cworks so beautifully\u201d is, she believes, \u201cbecause Frederick is the only person that knows her pain, sees all of her and loves her in spite of that, loves her because, loves her anyway, loves her always. And she knows that. And I think there is no Frederick without Alma. There is no Alma without Frederick. And I think that\u2019s how she survives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018After The Hunt\u2019 Writer Nora Garrett Reveals The Political Event That Impacted Her, And Her On-Set Experience With Luca Guadagnino And Julia Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAlma\u2019s attire is also part of her survival kit. Roberts explains that hair designer Massimo Gattabrusi (Queer,\u00a0Challengers) and makeup designer Fernanda Perez (A Bigger Splash,\u00a0Call Me By Your Name), both regular collaborators of Guadagnino\u2019s, molded her look, with Gena Rowlands at the center of their mood board.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey are avid researchers,\u201d she says, \u201cand they came in with a lot of materials for us to look at, and talk about \u2014 what the look was to be. It\u2019s a uniform. She\u2019s not spending time getting ready, and yet, make no mistake, there\u2019s thought put into every little piece of everything, every loafer, every brush of the hair. And so it was interesting to try to create this studied look that seemed effortless. And definitely Gena Rowlands [was an influence]. We had so many pictures of her in the hair and makeup room.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tInterestingly, she and Rowlands appeared together in\u00a01995\u2019s\u00a0Something to Talk About.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo I knew her,\u201d Roberts says. \u201cAnd I was able to adore her up close for a period of time. So many of the characters that she played, they had this internal [dynamic]. It was like a Jenga\u00a0game, and you just didn\u2019t know when it was going to tumble. She was so good at that, the nuance of that quality. I think that was something that Luca and I discussed, just trying to find that internal nuance for Alma.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJohn Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands<\/p>\n

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\n\tSadly, she notes, Rowlands died the day after the film wrapped. \u201cWe were all gutted. We couldn\u2019t believe it. Every day I would just sit and stare at pictures of her while I was getting ready for work in the makeup room. She was such a legend, such an inspiration.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Gena Rowlands Dies: \u2018The Notebook\u2019, \u2018Gloria\u2019 And \u2018A Woman Under the Influence\u2019 Star Was 94<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe mention of Rowlands makes us both hark back to a time when audiences welcomed challenging movies like\u00a0After the Hunt, where the answers weren\u2019t fed to you. Like you would come out of the film and you\u2019d have a heated discussion on the way home with your wife or with friends. The added benefit of\u00a0After the Hunt\u00a0has been is the number of fights one has participated in over dinner \u2014 even Christmas Day lunch\u2014 arguing over this movie. It\u2019s rare, and I ask whether Roberts feels that as well. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI do,\u201d she responds. \u201cI think that is my greatest sense of accomplishment with this movie, where this person thought this and this person thought that. My friends would see it and go, \u2018Oh, well, we have to see it again. I mean, because she thinks this and I think that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRoberts explains that when Guadagnino came to London to show her the film, she was on another movie, director Sam Esmail\u2019s thriller\u00a0Panic Carefully, starring Eddie Redmayne, Elizabeth Olsen, Brian Tyree Henry, Joe Alwyn and Ben Chaplin. Roberts says that she refused to sit with Guadagnino, just the two of them, to watch the movie. \u201cThat sounds like a complete nightmare,\u201d she recalls telling him.<\/p>\n

\n\tGuadagnino allowed her to invite Esmail, some cast mates from\u00a0Panic Carefully, along with crew from\u00a0After the Hunt\u00a0that resided in London, about a dozen or so, and following the screening they hadn\u2019t reached the exit doors before they stopped in a huddle for half an hour. \u201cIt was so wonderful just to hear how many different ways people examine it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018After The Hunt\u2019 Review: Julia Roberts Is Superb In Luca Guadagnino\u2019s Biting Campus #MeToo Drama \u2013 Venice Film Festival<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tBut while the film has its champions \u2014 such as Deadline\u2019s film critic Damon Wise \u2014 it\u2019s also had its share of detractors, especially some critics and social commentators in the United States who have vilified it. Roberts thinks that\u2019s what makes it really robust, saying, \u201dEverybody\u2019s going to get something slightly different in their interpretation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tFrom left: Andrew Garfield, Luca Guadagnino, Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri and Chloe Sevigny at the \u2018After the Hunt\u2019 premiere at the 2025 Venice Film Festival<\/p>\n

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\n\tLike me, Roberts is fascinated about which movies \u201cfloat to the top\u201d and what doesn\u2019t, and who exactly determines that. She suggests that she\u2019d like to attend a dinner party at my house to further discuss this topic. I suggest she bring plenty of her own ammunition. \u201cI\u2019m unafraid, Baz. I\u2019m unafraid,\u201d she says with mock bravado. (Actually, maybe not so mock!)<\/p>\n

\n\tI ask her about rumors suggesting she might have plans to return to the stage. Is it true?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI hope it\u2019s true, \u201c she responds. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long-held dream of mine to do that. And now that our kids are grown up, I think it affords me more of the space for something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI saw her make her Broadway debut in Richard Greenberg\u2019s play\u00a0Three Days of Rain, directed by Joe Mantello, with Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd in 2006. \u201cThe three of us, just scared out of our minds,\u201d she says of that experience. Mantello, who also acted with her in the screen version of Larry Kramer\u2019s\u00a0The Normal Heart, has remained a good friend all these years.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018After The Hunt\u2019 Trailer: Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield & Ayo Edebiri Star In Psychological Thriller<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tShe\u2019s open to doing something here in London, she says. \u201cOf course I would, yes. I mean, it\u2019s funny because there are these tiny theaters that are near our apartment in New York and little places near our house here [in San Francisco]. And I just think, \u2018Oh, that would be so fun to do a play in a really small space.\u2019 Almost like a workshop, almost like going to theater school, but people have to buy tickets to school.\u201d She lets out that famous laugh. \u201cFingers crossed. It would be so great.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe doesn\u2019t return to it often, but she has long loved the idea of the stage. \u201cI just think there\u2019s really nothing like it; I\u2019ve loved it since I was, like, a 7-year-old and saw Yul Brenner in\u00a0The King and I\u00a0at the Atlantic Civic Center Theater.\u201d She remembers thinking, \u201cThis is the most magical thing a person can do with their life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnother movie with Guadagnino is also on her dance card. \u201cHe already has an idea for us, and every time I see him, he\u2019s like, \u2018Darling, this is what we\u2019re going to do.\u2019 I would pack my bags now to go do another movie with Luca,\u201d she declares.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAndrew Garfield and Julia Roberts in \u2018After the Hunt\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYannis Drakoulidis\/Amazon<\/p>\n

\n\tIs that a serious proposition or just polite casual conversation? Smiling, then sighing, Roberts explains: \u201cThis is what I know about Luca: He is the\u00a0most\u00a0prolific. I mean, even this movie, this is the fastest I have ever read a script, talked to a director and ended up on a soundstage in my 30-plus-year career. The fastest. So when Luca says he has an idea, and he\u2019s going to write a script, it wouldn\u2019t surprise me if it comes as a late Christmas parcel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRoberts seems eager to experience working with Guadagnino again, even to play a character the complete antithesis of her \u2014 just as Alma was.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe\u2019s so different from my personality, from every natural instinct that I have towards the day, a person, a space. [I am,] I would say, almost opposite to her. And so in that regard, it\u2019s very tiring and, in a way, kind of sad. I like to share a space, not command a space. And so I found those days the hardest in a way, especially with all those actors sitting at their desks looking at me with these big eyes with such expectations. And I was happy to leave it all behind, but I was also\u2026\u201d She looks for the words. \u201cI felt so\u00a0gratified.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tShe reveals that she keeps in regular touch with Guadagnino, Garfield and Edebiri and has done ever since the movie wrapped. What do they talk about?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLife,\u201d she shrugs. \u201cI think Ayo and I became such good friends. I admire her so much, and I really, truly adore her. I think she\u2019s one of the most talented young people I have ever spent time with,\u201d Roberts adds her voice quivering on the verge of unexpected tears. Her feelings for Edebiri \u201care so profound,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe friendship developed during rehearsals, and then a confrontation in the film between their characters culminated in a slap. That \u201csealed the deal\u201d and it was like \u201cfriends for life,\u201d she trills.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Ayo Edebiri Recalls Slapping Julia Roberts For \u2018After The Hunt\u2019 Scene After Bonding During Rehearsal: \u201cIt Was Horrible\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tOur conversation goes on to encompass her romantic comedy classics, such as Roger Michell\u2019s\u00a0Notting Hill, based on a script by Richard Curtis. Did she have any sense, 27 years or more ago, that it would become an enduring favorite?<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJulia Roberts in \u2018Notting Hill\u2019 (1999)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cGosh, I just remember when my agent called me about\u00a0Notting Hill\u00a0and I thought, \u2018Well, that sounds like the dumbest idea of any movie I could ever do. I\u2019m going to play the world\u2019s biggest movie star and I do what? And then\u00a0what\u00a0happens? This sounds so f*cking stupid.\u2019 And then I read the script, and I was like, \u2018Oh. This is so\u00a0charming. It\u2019s so funny. Oh,\u00a0shit.\u2019 And then I went to lunch with Richard [Curtis] and [producer] Duncan [Kenworthy] and beloved Roger Michell, may he rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Roger Michell Dies: \u2018Notting Hill\u2019 Director Was 65<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe lunch was fun, she recalls, even though her initial intent was to tell them, \u201cNo, this isn\u2019t going to work. I\u2019m passing on this movie.\u201d \u201cAnd they were just so charming and sweet and funny. And I thought, \u2018Wow, this is really going to happen.\u2019 And we had a beautiful time doing it. It was cast to perfection [by Mary Selway], all the friends, everybody. It was so great. And we had a beautiful time. And I think Roger, he just created the film in a way that it just, at every turn, it succeeded. It accomplished its goals with every\u2026\u201d She pauses. \u201cAlec Baldwin!\u201d she exclaims. \u201cThat\u2019s brilliant casting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWe chat about comedy; the structure, the architecture of it. There\u2019s a math to it, Roberts suggests. \u201cBecause there\u00a0is\u00a0a math, but I think it changes depending on the kind of comedy that it is. Garry Marshall<\/a> [who directed her in\u00a0Pretty Woman] would always say that a joke is in three parts, like a drum beat. I mean, people have their different ways of looking at it. For me, I think it would just depend on what the goal is. But I mean, the joy of life is making people laugh for me. Especially my husband, if I can make my husband really laugh \u2014 because he makes me really laugh \u2014 then it just fills me up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat\u2019s the secret sauce of a Julia Roberts laugh? A cinematic treasure, I wonder? \u201cIt\u2019s not something for oneself to analyze,\u201d she theorizes. \u201cI think it comes from an authentic place of complete joy that I was just born of. It\u2019s a credit to my parents, I suppose.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSkirting back to\u00a0Pretty Woman, it occurs to me to ask whether the philosopher Alma would have approved of the Vivian Ward character Roberts plays and of the film itself? Roberts roars with laughter. \u201cThis is going to be food for thought for the day!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso, would Julia Roberts \u2014 had she been the right age \u2014 made\u00a0Pretty Woman\u00a0today?<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tRichard Gere and Julia Roberts in \u2018Pretty Woman\u2019 (1990)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cOh, it\u2019s impossible. I have too many years of the weight of the world inside of me now that I wouldn\u2019t be able to kind of levitate in a movie like that, right? I mean, not weight of the world, like, negative, but just all the things that we learn, all the things that we put in our pockets along the lane. It would be impossible to play someone who was really innocent, in a way. I mean, it\u2019s a funny thing to say about a hooker, but I do think that there was an innocence to her, a kind of\u2026\u201d She pauses. \u201c I guess it\u2019s just being young.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the years, many have stopped seeing\u00a0Pretty Woman\u00a0as an affectionate fairytale.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell, I think anytime you have a huge passage of time and cultural shifts\u2026\u201d she muses. \u201cThink about all the movies and plays of the \u201920s and \u201930s and \u201940s \u2014 you would look at them now and just be like, \u2018How are people saying these things, doing these things?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLook at\u00a0Gone With the Wind, for example, she says. \u201cI think these are the choices that we make as artists, as art appreciators and people that love to read books and go to the theater and yeah, times change, people change, ideas change.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRoberts famously supports Manchester United and loves watching the footy on television. \u201cOf course it\u2019s more exciting when you\u2019re there, live. Everything is,\u201d she chortles. The World Cup looms large in her future with the hope of tickets to see the elite players perform at the game\u2019s ultimate competition.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: FIFA 2026 World Cup: Full Schedule & Fixtures For Groups And Knockout Stages<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis has been quite the constant conversation on our house,\u201d Roberts admits as a megawatt smile begins to form.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore that, though, is the chance to get her feet wet one more time in\u00a0Ocean\u2019s 14. Is that on, I ask? \u201cThat\u2019s what George says. I\u2019m on his team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is where pure mathematics is deployed to reassemble the ensemble. \u201cWe finally figured out how to align our schedules,\u201d she says. \u201cThese are complicated schedules,\u201d she notes while relaying that her\u00a0Ocean\u2019s\u00a0teammate Don Cheadle will be starring with Edebiri on Broadway<\/a> in a revival of David Auburn\u2019s play\u00a0Proof\u00a0for a limited run in the spring and early summer. \u201cThere\u2019s so many things to have to consider, but when George gets a bee in his bonnet, things happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tGeorge Clooney and Julia Roberts<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking of Clooney, we chuckle over the running gag in\u00a0Jay Kelly<\/a>\u00a0where his eponymous character, a movie star, finds that every set, hotel and trailer he visits includes a rider that dictates a slice of cheesecake at every stop, even though he detests the dessert. After watching the film, Roberts started to notice that everywhere she goes, \u201cthere is either a huge bag or a huge bowl of raw almonds. I have no idea why,\u201d she shrugs.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: George Clooney Plays A Fictional Movie Star In \u2018Jay Kelly\u2019 But He\u2019s Not The First \u2013 Here\u2019s 10 Of The Best\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAnd does she even like these nuts? \u201cI like them, but not in bulk!\u201d she says, gesticulating wildly with her hands. \u201cI mean, they\u2019re everywhere I go. It\u2019s so funny. And so I just recently sent an email since watching\u00a0Jay Kelly, since seeing all these almonds, I sent email and said, \u2019In the new year, one thing I would really like to do is review any and all riders that pertain to me in this world, because I think it might be time for a little reset on the almonds.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: An AI version of Julia Roberts would be doomed from the start. A computer program could never…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[76444,66029,74265,236,88,24194,32177,28465,17204],"class_list":["post-391467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-after-the-hunt","tag-ayo-edebiri","tag-breaking-baz","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-george-clooney","tag-julia-roberts","tag-luca-guadagnino","tag-novid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391467","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=391467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}