Julia Roberts wouldn’t have made Eat Pray Love if Javier Bardem didn’t agree to be in it, the actress reveals.The 42-year-old tells USA Today that out of all her male co-stars the making of the movie hinged on the Spaniard.

In Eat Pray Love Bardem plays a Brazilian importer who falls for Roberts’ character during her time in Bali.Roberts – who plays writer Elizabeth Gilbert in the movie – says: ‘He was the only one for me.

‘If he hadn’t agreed to do it I think we couldn’t have done it.

‘It’s such a vital element. Everything we’ve invested up until that point we hang on this man to bring us across the finish.’

The actress plays opposite three actors in the film, which is based on the best-selling memoir of the same name.They include James Franco, 32, Richard Jenkins, 63, and Billy Crudup, 42.But in the end Gilbert pairs off with future husband José Nunes, played by 41-year-old Bardem.

‘I had the payoff,’ says the Spaniard who recently wed actress Penelope Cruz.

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Julia Roberts sometimes finds motherhood a chore.The ‘Eat Pray Love’ actress – who has three children, twins Hazel and Phinneaus, five, and three-year-old Henry with cameraman husband Danny Moder – insists she loves her daily routine despite having no time to herself.

She said: “I don’t have the luxury of sitting around anymore. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children but I don’t know what I did with it and I didn’t appreciate it. But it’s such a terrific trade off.

“And as with anybody who’s a mum or a wife, it just becomes part of your everyday routine. Some days it’s super fun and some days it’s a chore.”

The 42-year-old star also admits it takes a special script to tempt her away from her home life, but the fact she still works shows how much she enjoys her profession.

She explained: “For me to make that personal commitment to do that much work and travel to all those places, not alone but with 150 crew and my whole family, really shows how much I still love what I do.”

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Eat Pray Love is in theaters today, so we all want the scoop on how Julia Roberts felt about eating all that Italian food. In the movie, she appears to have lived on a diet of gelato and Neapolitan pizza.

Although Roberts confesses to having a sweet tooth, she eventually got tired of eating pizza all day. The actress didn’t use a “spit bucket,” that age-old Hollywood trick to stay trim on set.

“That grosses me out,” Roberts told Entertainment Weekly. “If you look at any of the scenes of eating, by the end of the scene, I’m done eating. Like in the scene with the pizza, by the time the scene is over, I’ve eaten the entire piece. When we were in Naples, we started shooting at 8 in the morning, and I think by 8:45 I’d eaten 8 or 10 pieces of pizza. Pizza was what I ate all day that day.”

The actress gained between seven and ten pounds while shooting in Rome. Roberts doesn’t regret it because she feels that she stayed true to the character, Liz Gilbert, the author of the true story behind Eat Pray Love. “By the time Liz got to Italy, she was so underweight that the weight she put on really got her back to normal and then a little bit more,” explained Roberts. Neither woman gained an unhealthy amount on a Mediterranean diet, but the actress did notice the difference. “I could’ve used a bigger pair of jeans when I went off to India!”

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