The actress recently gave an interview in which she revealed, among other things, the reason why she has not starred again in a film of the genre that made her America's sweetheart.
Julia Roberts (54) has been considered for decades America's sweetheart thanks to the titles with which she managed to gain a foothold in the Mecca of cinema during the start of her career as an actress. Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Notting Hill, and My Best Friend's Wedding are some of the films with which Julia became one of the most admired and best-paid actresses on celluloid in record time.
Films with a common denominator, being romantic comedies suitable for almost all audiences in which, with a large dose of humor in their script, the protagonists longed for the happy ending expected by an audience eager for light stories that, even today, remain authentic audience leaders.
Far from being pigeonholed in this type of role, Julia Roberts has continued to grow her professional career by diversifying her profile as an actress with films that have moved away from the romantic comedy stereotype with which she began her career in the mecca of cinema. With films like Eat, Pray, Love, Wonder, or Erin Brockovich, thanks to which she won the Oscar Award for Best Actress, Julia changed her record so as not to return to the genre thanks to which she became a celluloid star. A curious reality that Roberts did not mind addressing during her last interview with The New York Times Magazine last Friday.
Far from not wanting to play a role of this nature, Roberts highlighted the audience's misunderstanding in this regard: "People sometimes misinterpret the amount of time that has passed without doing a romantic comedy as if I didn't want to do it." Next, the actress explained the real reason why she has not returned to this type of record: "If I had read something that I thought had the level of writing of Notting Hill or the level of crazy fun of My Best Friend's Wedding I would have done. They just didn't exist."
A demand that she seems to have borne fruit with the latest film Ticket to Paradise, which will be released at the end of this year, in which she shares the spotlight with her great friend George Clooney. In the film Roberts and Clooney play a divorced couple who try to convince their daughter not to make the same mistake they made in the past by marrying a stranger. A film whose script only convinced Julia with one condition: "When I read it I thought, well, disaster, because this only works if it's him. Lo and behold, George felt the same way that it would only work with me. Somehow we both managed to do it and did it." we did".
In addition to her professional need to say yes to a role of this type, the artist spoke of the family reasons that were also part of that brake: "I also had three children in the last 18 years. That raises the bar even more because not only It is a matter of good material, but it is also the mathematical equation of squaring my husband's work schedule and the children's school schedule and their summer vacations," highlighting at all times the pride he has felt in being able to be close to his family in defining moments for her: "It wasn't just 'oh, I want to do this'. I feel great pride in being at home with my family and considering myself a housewife."
