Julia Roberts Is Alluring
Julia Roberts lands the cover for Allure’s March issue. Here’s some of what she had to say.
On being the only woman in Ocean’s Eleven and Twelve: People go, ‘There you are with Brad and George and Matt. You’re so lucky!’ Well, I also went to my hotel room door one morning, and they had shaving-creamed my door and put two huge potted trees outside, trying to make me late for work.
On working with some of the biggest male stars in Hollywood: Early on, I worked with Richard Gere and Denzel and Dennis Quaid and Mel Gibson, and all these profoundly smart, handsome guys. I was lucky enough to be part of their lives and become friends with them, and it is interesting to understand a solid perspective of the male psyche as a person who’s nonthreatening to that guy. Men are so revealing when they’re not trying to woo you, when you’re not intimidated or being flirty, when you’re just interested.
Even Roberts has been on the receiving end of a foot-in-the-mouth-moment. She recalls a moment on the set of her latest film, Duplicity. “Just when you think you’re getting your shit together, someone says, ‘When is your baby due?’ I had Henry on my hip, and it was like, ‘This is my baby.’ It hurt my feelings so bad! I think the second-meanest thing you can say to somebody is, ‘You look tired.’ Why do people say that? Just tell me I look like a mom! Don’t tell me I look tired.”
Roberts’s take on being a working mother: “Acting fulfills me in a creative way that has this myopic focus—and it gives me something to talk about at dinner. That can’t be underrated, really. A lot of the mom struggle in life is that everything happens within the four walls of the home, and it can lose its luster a bit, maybe. You just have to bring in from outside sometimes.”
The key to her happy marriage and family is affection: The coolest thing you can do for your children is to love each other in their presence,” she says. “I’m the luckiest girl in town, I really am.
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