Emma Roberts is turning into quite the beautiful young woman and ambitious actress. She recently sat down with Teen Vogue, and People Magazine has culled some of the best quotes. Emma’s not interested in having success handed to her on a Disney platter (like some young actresses who shall remain nameless) – Emma is trying to gain some acting credibility by doing smaller, edgier films. Emma wants to be more that “just Julia Roberts’s niece”.
At points, Emma seems like a thoroughly normal, well-adjusted teenager. But she’s got some serious ambitions, I can tell. Even though Emma has plans to attend college in New York in the fall, I bet at some point in the next two years Emma drops out to focus on her career. People Magazine has more:
After starring in 2007’s Nancy Drew and 2009’s Hotel for Dogs, Emma Roberts is ready to prove that there’s more to her than kid flicks and her famous aunt.
“Some people look at me and think, ‘She’s just Julia Roberts’s niece,’ ” the 18-year-old starlet told Teen Vogue’s April issue. “So I wanted to do something smaller and edgier, something that would show I really am an actress.”
That something is a starring role in the indie drama Lymelife, a 2009 Sundance Film Festival official selection costarring 30 Rock’s Alec Baldwin and Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon. Roberts also shipped off to London to shoot the edgy flick Wild Child – but not without a price.
“I couldn’t take [my driver’s test] until I got back,” she lamented.
Though she failed her driver’s test, ambitious Roberts shows no signs of stopping as she works her way down her personal checklist of teen rites of passage.
“I remember being twelve and thinking, I can’t wait until I’m sixteen, because then I’m going to have a car, a driver’s license, a really cool boyfriend, and boobs.” Seems the boyfriend is where Roberts has now shifted her focus, telling the mag, “I’m looking to musicians.”
But not just any will do for the determined Roberts. “I used to have a crush on Nick [Jonas], but he’s kind of making his rounds in Hollywood, and I don’t know if I like that.”
In addition to movie star and maturing teen, Roberts recently added Neutrogena spokesperson to her list of titles. College student could soon follow, as the star is looking to attend a New York college in the fall.
From People Magazine
Emma is the daughter of Julia’s brother Eric Roberts and his then-girlfriend Kelly Cunningham. Emma has previously stated that she and her dad aren’t very close, and she was pretty much raised by her mother, her step-dad and her Aunt Julia. I’ve always thought (but never seen it confirmed) that Emma’s birth and the whiff of “deadbeat dad” for Eric Roberts was one of the reasons that Julia and Eric’s relationship was strained at best, non-existent at worst.
Emma Roberts is shown at the Oscars on 2/22/09 and out at Sundance on 1/18/09 and 1/16/09. Credit: WENN
She reminds me of Anne Hathaway. I hope she stays sweet and doesn’t turn into another Miley ho bag.
Nah, not Anne Hathaway. More like Emma Watson actually.
She’s a real cute girl.
What a lovely young woman, and smart as well for actually thinking about her career path and not just taking any role she can get. She can only get so far as “Julia’s niece,” and that might even be a hindrance. Face it-if she does become a big success, her detracters wil ALWAYS claim it’s because of her connections. But making smaller movies and building a rep as an actress, rather than just as a celebrity, is very intelligent.
I hope the article is wrong in the prediction that she’ll drop out of college to focus on acting in a couple of years, though. It’s just smart to have a solid education to back you up.
Oh, and I disagree with the Anne Hathaway comparison, as well. Hathaway is just a flavor of the month, but I doubt she has long term staying power as an actress. She is just okay at best.
Roberts would be smart to emulate someone like Dakota Fanning. While she is a child star, she doesn’t make childish movies. Fanning is the Jodie Foster of her generation and I expect she’ll be an excellent actress as an adult if she continues to make good choices.
I actually saw in her in, I think it was a “Nancy Drew” movie. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzz
She was just awful.
Attending acting school would be a plus!
I doubt anyone will find this interesting but her step-dad used to be the bass player for rock band L.A. Guns back in the 80s
The only reason she has a “career”/we have heard about her is that she Julia Roberts’s niece.
I don’t like it when young girld take themselves too seriously.
Hollywood nepotism is another drawback.
mackie: Really?!? Lol, I used to love them in junior high.
i’m sorry but i’ll be impressed when a relative of a movie star says they’re gonna go to college or something completely looney like that… not do “edgy” movies… the bar is being set so low for these people *yawn*
I think she would do better with Jodie Foster as a role model instead of Dakota Fanning. Valedictorian at her high school, magna cum laude from Yale, and gets up to $15 million for movies.
The reality is “it’s who you know” and that’s true for all of us even if it just that your friend is friends with a person in the HR dept. of the place you are applying to.
I don’t think less of her for using her connection to Julia Roberts to get her foot in the door–why not? It’s what she does in front of a camera that will make her or not.
I think she looks a bit too wholesome to be “edgy”, but it will depend on how talented she is. (and how good her agent is, and how lucky she might get…lots of famous actors/actresses have nieces, nephews, cousins, siblings and steps who are hoping for a ‘break’ in the business).
I think the real test is going to be if whether or not she gets her head blown up from Hollywood and the nepotism she’s going to be subjected to (coughcoughGwynethPaltrowcoughcough)
Ok Kaiser. I think you’re being slightly mean here.
“Emma’s not interested in having success handed to her on a Disney platter (like some young actresses who shall remain nameless)…”
Umm, she’s Julia Robert’s niece. To assume that attention was paid to her because she was that great of an actress and not because her mom was an Academy Award winner is optimistic to the point of foolishness.
I’ve watched her with my sister since her Nickelodeon days and she was good, not “great” or “edgy”
Yes, Disney behind Miley greatly enhances how far she reaches publicly (tweens rule the world) but to assume she hasn’t worked hard? This girl did a North American tour while she was barely 15. And she’s extremely nice to her fans. She was really nice to my sister when she met her backstage even though she had been greeting girls for a while.
Oops. Sorry. I mean Aunt not Mother. Her Aunt was an Academy Award winner.
The problem is that a lot of these young actresses think that “edgy” means “show us your tits!”
And I really don’t understand this hatred for Miley Cyrus. It’s one thing to think that she’s annoying (which I do), but what the hell did she do that people want her head on a stick?! And don’t give me that “poor role model” crap. No teenager should be burdened with that responsibility. The poor girl wanted to be a performer, she didn’t know she was going to be worshipped. It doesn’t matter how famous she is, the fact is that teenagers do stupid things, and fame can’t overcome human nature.
She was terrible in Nancy Drew, just awful.
I love Julia and had hopes that her neice wouldn’t be that bad, but man she stinks.
i just saw emma in the premier of Lymelife
http://www.lymelifethemovie.com