Julia Roberts is really going all out for her Emmy Award, isn’t she? She basically appeared on The Tonight Show and Today just to campaign for an Emmy (for The Normal Heart). And now she covers the new issue of InStyle. She literally has nothing else to promote – there are no other films on her IMDB. I swear, she’s doing more promotion for her Emmy than she did promoting August: Osage County… although to be fair, even Julia knew that the Oscar race was between Lupita and J-Law for Best Supporting. For the Emmy, Julia has a real shot (and yes, she’ll probably win). Anyway, here are some highlights from the InStyle piece:
Julia has never been seen as a “hot actress”: “I think I’ve always sort of been on the more boyish spectrum of girls. For example, I’ve never been chosen as ‘one of the top-five hottest actresses in a bikini.’ And honestly, it’s a godsend. When I was younger, I’d think, ‘Oh, I’m the prettiest one. It’s not Halle Berry. It’s not!’ But it is, you know?”
Julia is down with the mom demographic: “Even when I was 20, they were my demographic. I work for the moms.”
Working on her red carpet look: “I certainly think about it more now. It used to be a friend could call me at 3 in the afternoon and say, ‘I have a premiere tonight. Will you come?’ And I’d just take a shower and go. I wore a lot of vintage then. I had a navy military jacket and striped leggings I wore all the time. Those were the fun old days. People were less judgmental, less searing in their assessment of what you dare wear to the drugstore.”
She has a stylist now: “The fun now is getting together with my friend and stylist Elizabeth Stewart, whom I adore. She brings such great ideas and choices to the table. When I know I’m seeing Elizabeth, I put on the most impeccable outfit. She’ll go, ‘This is great!’ And I’ll say, ‘I dressed just for you.’ Often I’ll let the kids look at my outfit choices and say, ‘What do you like better—this or this?’ I just try to not take it so seriously. And it can be stressful on the red carpet. So it doesn’t matter how much you dress up or bejewel yourself, you’ve still got to feel like you.”
She hates being asked about ‘doing it all’: “Because, (a) I’m not nearly as busy as people think, (b) half of everything just doesn’t get done — as long as no one is in tears, nobody smells bad and everyone’s sleeping peacefully, I’ve done my job — and (c) I have a supportive group of girlfriends, a great husband and an understanding family. The rest gets done with grit, spit and a whole lot of duct tape.”
Julia was famous before the whole era of “actresses famous for how they look while shopping on Robertson” thing. But… Julia still got followed by paps a lot back in the day. I remember that. And I remember everyone always criticized her red carpet looks and her casual looks. But the great thing about Julia was that she never really cared what the fashion people thought.
As for weird Halle Berry comment… I think she was trying to be self-deprecating and make a joke, but it really sounds like yes, Julia thought she was hotter than Halle.
Photos courtesy of InStyle & Fame/Flynet.
I used to like her when she was younger, now she always comes across as quite pretentious and selfentitled in interviews. And lol at the Halle Berry shade XD
and, yet, still nowhere near as bad as goopy
No she’s far worse. Julia has been at it longer than Goop. She can say the same things as Goop, but it doesn’t come off as abrasive, but the message is the same if not slightly worse.
She deserves the Emmy for The Normal Heart. I almost fell in love with her all over again. Almost.
Really? I thought she was the weakest link in an otherwise well-cast piece. I felt like anyone else could have played the part and done it just as well. But then I’ve always thought she’s completely overrated.
Her speech in the auditorium to the health officials gave me chills. That whole cast was solid (Taylor Kitsch was the weakest, for me).
Her last few movies have been bombs. Now she has to rely on an Emmy nomination to get attention.
I’m so torn. This woman confuses me. On one hand she is a “c you next tuesday” in the industry, but a freakin’ dream to fans. I want to hate her so badly, but I just can’t. Even with the whole “A Low Vera” thing, which was horrible. I’ve hated almost every single movie she’s been in since the Ocean’s movies. That being said her appearances on Kimmel & Fallon were hilarious and endearing…
Screw it. I need a drink.
She’s a master manipulator. Don’t get sucked in!
Speaking of “a low vera”. Isn’t her husband currently cheating more and more on her lately? The stories are persisting.
Damn Karma is a Biatch
“I work for moms”
Not this mom since you stole someone’s husband. She is a big phoney.
completely agree
“I’ve always sort of been on the more bitch-ish spectrum of girls.” There, fixed that for her.
LOL!
i dont get her, i never did
When girls say this that’s exactly what I hear. If girls are more “boyish” they don’t say it. They just are and everyone knows it for how they are.
I never got how people need to declare they are these things instead of letting their actions speak for themselves.
My Grandma always used to say that those who feel the need to define who they are, want others to see them as they wish to be seen. Which usually means they are exactly the opposite of whatever label they throw about.
Those who don’t already know who they are.
Hmm, now I want Grandma’s shortbread! Hungry.
LOL ^^ THIS. Also, I’ll eat my shorts if she has a supportive group of girlfriends. For those other women, it’s more likely a case of keeping friends close but keeping enemies closer!
“I think I’ve always sort of been on the more boyish spectrum of girls.”
But of course you have. Yawn.
“When I was younger, I’d think, ‘Oh, I’m the prettiest one. It’s not Halle Berry. It’s not!’ But it is, you know?”
No, actually I don’t know. What is she trying to say here?
She is trying to say she used to think she was prettier to till she accepted the fact that no Halle is in fact prettier than she is.As Julia stated she has never been an Esquires Sexiest Woman or Maxim Hottest List or People’s Best Body List.Halle was considered sexy and beautiful by men and women’s magazines.
LOL at her going on about the husband and the kids and the girlfriends and just holding it together with grit and spit – is she going after the Reese Witherspoon mom crowd of fans? This was never her shtick before.
Um…wasn’t she named one of People’s Top most beautiful people? Like 3 or 4 times? She needs to sit down.
And her working for the mom’s comment is such total BS. She’s still trying to play for the america sweetheart role when everyone knows she’s a huge PITA.
Yeah, this, but to be fair to her (omg what have I come to) I think she mean’s those SI/lads mags type bodies. Think Halle Berry in the Ursula Andress reincarnation in that Bond movie. Or Charlize Theron in those Dior ads.
There is a difference in being named most beautiful and being named hottest or sexiest.Natalie Portman is considered beautiful but not “hot” or “sexy”.There was no shade toward Halle.She was joking yeah I am pretty.as her well no Im really not.I like Julia because most of her close friends are friends from high school.Her best friends are not in show business.
Oh, Julia. You’re doing that thing again where you want props for being a ‘man’s woman, a guy’s girl’ to make people relate to you but instead you’re just pulling some NotAllAWomen BS.
I totally agree.
I love Julia and think she is a talented movie star(a movie star who can act as opposed to a craft first actress like Helen Miren, Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep) but sometimes Julia needs to sit the hell down.
And that shade to Hallie Berry? WTF? Of course Julia believed she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Of course she did. She is such a narcissist even by Hollywood standards. Everything is always about her- I mean the time she presented that award to Tom Hanks and spent the first few minutes talking to herself, or when she presented Denzel his Oscar. She seems like the biggest bitch.
I love her on screen though. On screen she is magic.
YES. That’s exactly how I read it, too. Then I remembered her abysmal behavior (that shirt, ugh) and knew I was right… she walks a fine line between appealing to a “mom demographic” and taking pride in the fact that she’s not like other women.
she has a long track record of it:
“I’m too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn’t call myself a woman. I’d say I’m somewhere between a chick and a broad.”
To which I say, lady, WHUT.
http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0000210/quotes
I like her.
I don’t mind her. Or at least she doesn’t cause me to have a conniption.
That photo on the cover is so odd, but I guess all cover photos seem to be odd these days. The head, the body, the angles just don’t seem real.
Yeah, I’ve never gotten the intensity of feeling against her.
I liked August: Osage County. Plus she hadn’t always been a favorite with just the mums. She was hot around the time she did Pretty Woman and was the IT girl at the time. To her credit she’s also aging very well. Sure she’s very mainstream and entitled but most celebrities are.
I liked August: Osage County, too. I thought the movie itself was over the top but the acting was excellent-great cast. The dinner table scene was an example of great ensemble acting.
I can see what she was saying about the Halle Berry/hot thing, but yeah, I see how it came off badly. She basically believed the her own hype at the time.
Don’t quite get the “mom” thing but maybe that’s because I wasn’t one when I liked her movies Pretty Woman through probably Erin Brochovich (sp?). Oceans 11 wasn’t hers really and I saw Best Friend’s Wedding for Mulroney but remembered Rupert but yeah she was ok too.
I’m okaying her a) and b) because I think most people think these celebrities are busier than they are and I usually only get half done too.
She’s still what she is and no nuggets of shared experiences or understanding will change my opinion of her which isn’t high.
So she admits Halle was more sexy/beautiful in a mainstream way in the 1990’s. True, and good for her for having some perspective. However, between “godsend” and “it is, you know?” I get the feeling she’s casting some major shade in Halle’s direction. Does anyone else agree? It’s like she’s saying that she’s glad she wasn’t a sex symbol back then, because it’s not a sustainable or substantial career path, and she would rather have her career than Halle’s.
Orrrrrr maybe I’m just reading much too much into it.
To be fair, Julia has always shown incredible acting talent, whereas Halle can be a little inconsistent. And I hate perpetuating the notion that successful women have to bring each other down (I’d much rather read about a professional compliment or personal friendship than yet another sexist cat fight trope). It’s just that Julia has never seemed to have another woman’s back… ever. So this seems shifty to me.
I don’t know. I saw her sitting behind Meryl Streep at the Oscars and at one stage she gave Meryl a playful push in the back and they shared a laugh. It seemed as though they genuinely liked each other.
I thought I read at the time, that Meryl and Julia couldn’t stand each other….but maybe that was just the tabs making things up…
You can confuse a lot of people by honestly representing your opinions because the truth is often full of contradictions. I get that she thought of herself as one of the boys and at the same time admits that she thought she was prettier than Halle Berry back in the day. It sounds like she’s s having trouble with the diminishing returns of her beauty and like she has pretty consistent trouble trying to keep her ego in check. I don’t think that makes her a bad person.
@nicole: I love your comment!
Confused about why Julia requires spit and duct tape to get through her not very busy life. I guess she hopes this makes me relate to her?
Julia has always dressed for herself, so even when she wears something granola and frumpy, at least she is just being her. I believe that she really just doesn’t care about that stuff all that much and mostly dresses for comfort.
I thought she was the most beautiful back in her heyday. I really did. She just had “it”.
IMO closer to the equine spectrum, my apologies to horses.
I understand her Halle comment. If someone said I had a hotter body than Halle I would be shocked but also flattered. Let’s face it: Julia truly didn’t seem to care much about red carpet events in the past. Remember her underarm hair? Yuck! She has changed in that department.
You know what… I have always liked Julia. In interviews and movies, at least. I do think she’s one of the better actresses of her generation. Her interviews always have an awkward piece in them (like the Halle Berry comment here), but I just laugh at it.
I can understand why some people are annoyed by her (she has done things awfully childish) but idk… I just think she’s cool.
Eh, this interview doesn’t bug me, I do buy at least that she never tried to be a fashion girl or a pinup girl. But in her era it wasn’t quite such a seeming necessity as it is now. You could be an “It girl” without having to be b.f.f.’s with every fashion designer. I think J.Law is trying to paint herself in this same everywoman mould as Julia, she always makes a point of separating herself from her red carpet choices, in a “Oh yeah we picked this dress whatever” kind of way. I even find the Halle Berry comment weirdly refreshing for her -oh God is Julia winning me over? I am exactly her main fan age demographic, a few yrs younger so most of my peers at school fell in love with her in Pretty Woman, which I hated – I was more into Winona Ryder. So I get the whole “Mom demographic” thing, after Mystic Pizza Julia always felt way older than she was in her film choices. She was always a bit too mainstream for me though I have enjoyed her post 40 career choices a lot more. She’s no dummy going in for the Emmy, she probably wants the next big cable show like House of Cards or Homeland to re-boost her profile.