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Julia Roberts hates shooting love scenes for movies, and will go to any length to avoid kissing her co-stars.
The Oscar winner has locked lips with a string of hunky co-stars, including Richard Gere in Pretty Woman, Hugh Grant in Notting Hill and George Clooney in Oceans Eleven. However, the married mother-of-three insists she loathes faking real affection, and relies on camera trickery to escape kissing her onscreen love interests.
Roberts tells Us Weekly, “I try to avoid it at every turn. I’ve kissed through sheets; I’ve come up with every trick in the book, because I just think it’s bizarre.”
London (ANI): Talk show host David Letterman, known for leaving the guests dumbfounded with his witty questions, was at a loss of words when Hollywood actress Julia Roberts planted a kiss on his lips.
Julia, who was sporting pink locks, kissed Letterman, who was fast to lean over to her in a bid to reciprocate to the gesture. However, while talking on the show, the Pretty Woman actress said that she did not like doing intimate scenes in her flicks, as she was a mother of three kids.
“You know it’s not really what I do, so if you are going to ask me to do it, you have to expect it to be toned down,” the Sun quoted her as sa
‘Closer’ co-stars Julia Roberts and Clive Owen reunite on the big screen this month for ‘Duplicity,’ a romantic screwball caper comedy in which they play fast-talking spies turned corporate operatives who team up to try to con two rival titans of industry out of million upon millions of dollars — and perhaps fall in love along the way.
The film, writer-director Tony Gilroy’s impressive and assured follow-up to ‘Michael Clayton,’ boasts plentiful plot twists, the Gatling-gun dialogue of a Bogey-Bacall flick and — most importantly — Roberts’ first true lead role since 2003’s ‘Mona Lisa Smile.’
Moviefone sat down with Roberts and a small panel of journalists for a relaxed but revealing chat about the film — and ended up unearthing quite a few fun facts in the process. From why she and Clive have such great on-screen chemistry to what it takes to be invited into her kitchen to why she’d rather eat the world’s biggest, greasiest slab of meat than read a gossip magazine, here are eight things we learned about Julia Roberts. – By Tom DiChiara
1. Playing venomous lovers in ‘Closer’ actually did make Julia and Clive closer.
Michelle Obama has nothing on Julia Roberts.
On the Monday after the Oscars, there was the elusive actress, in a fitted black blazer, jeans and rippling locks, with all the presence of a polished but approachable politician, pressing palms and personally greeting each member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. — that idiosyncratic group that bestows the Golden Globes — in a conference room of the Four Seasons Hotel. The line to speak with her was long, its denizens frequently shabby and odd and gushing, but Roberts did not flag, dutifully raining that glorious, improbable smile on every grateful scribe and posing for a memorializing photo.
She then disappeared, and returned with her hair upswept, sporting a green, summery linen top. She did a quick photo shoot (as the great “Slumdog Millionaire” actor Irrfan Khan, a hotel guest, stopped by and introduced himself) and retreated for this interview into an almost furniture-less meeting room. She perched on the only couch, eventually slinging one leg up in that idiosyncratic, long-legged recline, often seen in her movies and magazine spreads.
Unlike her married peers (Brangelina or TomKat), Roberts and husband Danny Moder have maintained a distinctly more selective media presence, and the Oscar-winning actress has emerged from her cocoon only to discuss her new film, “Duplicity” — the first movie she’s actually top-lined since 2003 — which opens Friday.
Julia Roberts is chopping off her trademark long locks to play a real-life ‘cougar’ on the prowl for love.
The Oscar winner has bought the rights to Liz Gilbert’s book Eat, Prey, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia and plans to play the author in a movie adaptation.
The writer spent a year looking for love on a trek around the world, following a messy divorce and a failed romance, and chronicled her exploits.
Gilbert tasted the cultural delights in Italy, stayed in an ashram in India and completed her trip in Bali.
The book has become a must-read for middle-aged women keen to embark on more rewarding lives – and Roberts can’t wait to get started, even if her friends are begging her to rethink the haircut.
She tells Wenn, “I will be the lead character Liz Gilbert. I’ll cut my hair, even though everyone says that it’s the kiss of death for me, apparently.”
Toys covered the floor, and Mary Poppins sang softly on the TV when director Tony Gilroy arrived at ‘ New York City apartment in the fall of 2007. The actress, who has three kids with husband Danny Moder, seemed to have relegated herself to ensemble work, but Gilroy was determined to woo her back to the screen in a major way. They sat in her kitchen, sizing each other up. He told her why she’d be perfect in , as a slick corporate spy who trades kisses and quips with an equally smooth . Then Roberts’ new baby, Henry, started burbling for his mama, 3-year-old twins Finn and Hazel woke from their naps, and the meeting took a G-rated turn. ”It started off, I thought, with me seeming very chic,” says Roberts, ”because it was just me and Tony sitting having a cup of tea. Then one by one they all woke up and came in until I looked like Mother Hubbard.”
Today, Roberts is tucked away in a suite at midtown Manhattan’s Ritz-Carlton hotel. Her kids are safely ensconced in another room, always near their mother, but shielded from the rigors of her public life. Roberts is in game spirits, and she takes a crack at writing the headlines that will inevitably trumpet her return to the spotlight — and question her relevance going forward. ”The Pretty Woman Is Back!” she teases. ”The Working Woman! Everybody’s talking about ‘Oh, this is her comeback’ and ‘Ooh, she’s 41 and she’s working and not a lot of girls in their 40s are working.”’ She shakes her head, her face sliding into that famous grin. ”Well, I’m baaaa-aaaack,” she says in a patient voice, free of any urgency. We might have missed her more than she missed us.
Julia Roberts is reteaming with her “Fireflies in the Garden” director for “Jesus Henry Christ,” a feature comedy Roberts will produce via her Red Om Films.
“Christ” is based on Dennis Lee’s Student Academy Award-winning short film of the same name, and follows Henry James Hermin, a boy conceived in a petri-dish and raised by a loving, left-wing feminist. At the age of 10, he decides his mother’s love is not enough and begins to follow a trail of Post-It notes stuck around town hoping it will lead him to his biological father.
Lee is writing the new script and will direct. Sukee Chew of Hopskotch Pictures also is producing.
Roberts is not planning to star in the movie at this time.
A Columbia film school graduate, Dennis made his feature directorial debut on “Fireflies in the Garden,” which stars Roberts, Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss and Hayden Panettiere. The film is being released June 19 by Senator Entertainment, which also financed and produced.
Lee, repped by WMA, adapted Brad Kessler’s novel “Birds in Fall,” which he will direct for Senator and Red Om.
Roberts is repped by CAA.
NEW YORK — All it took was a question about sex — and out came that famous Julia Roberts guffaw of a belly laugh, echoing around a Manhattan hotel suite overlooking Central Park.
The abruptness of the Oscar winner’s loud chortle Friday even made her ”Duplicity” co-star Clive Owen start a bit in his seat. But then, as the actor admitted later, it is Roberts’ ”brilliant sponteneity” that is one of the things he loves most about acting with her.
Oh yes, we should get back to that question about sex — actually sexiness.
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.”
Roberts and Owen play spies turned corporate operatives in the midst of an on-again and off-again love affair trying to scheme and seduce each other using quick banter.
“I’m Southern so I can talk really fast,” says the Oscar-winning actress. “I grew up on Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, His Girl Friday movies – that rat-a-tat-tat talking cadence and that rhythm. I love that kind of thing.”
One thing she doesn’t love as much, at least right now, is the thought of her three children – twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, 4, and son, Henry, 1, joining her and cameraman dad Danny Moder in show business.
“My first instinct is that if my children wanted to be artists, that they wait,” Roberts says. “I would prefer that they just wait as long as they can.”