Julia Roberts Took 20-Year Hiatus From Rom-Coms To Be "A Homemaker" Because She Couldn't Find A Good Script
Julia Roberts sees herself as a "homemaker".
Roberts, who has not starred in a romantic comedy since 2001's America's Sweethearts, admitted that since having children she is a lot more considerate about the sort of roles she takes on. The 54-year-old Erin Brockovich star has 17-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and Henry, 14, with cinematographer Daniel Moder whom she's married to since 2002.
Speaking to The New York Times, she said: "'I consider myself a homemaker. It can't be 20 years, can it? Here's the thing: If I'd thought something was good enough, I would have done it.
"But I also had three kids in the last 18 years. That raises the bar even more because then it's not only 'Is this material good?', it's also the math equation of my husband's work schedule and the kids' school schedule and summer vacation. It's not just, 'Oh, I think I want to do this?' "
The Pretty Woman star went on to explain that she didn't set out to avoid doing romantic comedies but she just hadn't been offered anything she thought lived up to her previous work.
She said: "It wasn’t by design, so much as not finding something that I was interested in. I was surprised how quickly the years seemed to go by.
"People sometimes misconstrue the amount of time that’s gone by that I haven’t done a romantic comedy as my not wanting to do one. If I had read something that I thought was that Notting Hill level of writing or My Best Friend’s Wedding-level of madcap fun, I would do it."
“They didn’t exist until this movie that I just did [Ticket to Paradise] that Ol Parker wrote and directed."
The movie, which hails from the writer-director of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, also stars Roberts' Ocean 13 colleague George Clooney and is slated to open in the US in October. No word on when it'll be released in Singapore.
Roberts' latest is Gaslit, a Watergate-themed thriller series premiering in the US this weekend. She plays Martha Mitchell, "a celebrity Arkansan socialite and wife to Richard Nixon’s loyal Attorney General, John Mitchell. Per the show's synopsis, Martha is "a big personality with an even bigger mouth. Despite her party affiliation, she’s the first person to publicly sound the alarm on Nixon’s involvement in Watergate, causing both the Presidency and her personal life to unravel.”
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