This 12 months marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the basic romantic comedy “Notting Hill” ― through which, it seems, Julia Roberts virtually didn’t star.
In the most recent challenge of British Vogue, Roberts instructed Richard Curtis, the movie’s screenwriter, that she hesitated to take the half for a surprising purpose: The character was, like Roberts herself, a film star.
On the surface, it may appear simple for an actor to play an actor. But Roberts didn’t see it that means, calling the film “one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.”
“I was so uncomfortable!” Roberts instructed Curtis. “I almost didn’t take the part because it just seemed ― oh, it just seemed so awkward. I didn’t even know how to play that person.”
Roberts says she particularly “loathed being dressed as a movie star,” so she made a private selection within the well-known scene the place her character tells bookstore proprietor Hugh Grant that she’s “just a girl, standing in front of a boy.”
Instead of sporting the garments picked out by the wardrobe division, she had her driver return to the place she was staying and seize numerous items of attire from her bed room.
“I said, ‘Go into my bedroom and grab this, this and this out of my closet,’” Roberts stated. “And it was my own flip-flops and my cute little blue velvet skirt and a T-shirt and my cardigan.”
Curtis couldn’t assist however tease Roberts about her decisions.
“I was always disappointed you weren’t wearing a better costume that day,” he joked.
Besides calling wardrobe audibles, Roberts additionally insisted that Curtis change her character’s response when one other character requested her: “Last film you did, what did you get paid?”
Roberts instructed Curtis she remembered his script “lowballed my answer,” to which he replied: “I lowballed you but you insisted on me changing the script so that your price for your next movie would go up.”
Roberts had the proper comeback: “Because I am a feminist.”
