In the 1999 romantic comedy, Roberts plays a well-known actress who falls in love with a bookstore owner. However, the film was particularly difficult for her at the time.
US actress Julia Roberts (56) almost didn’t appear in “Notting Hill”. Playing a Hollywood actress in it was “one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do,” she told “Notting Hill” screenwriter Richard Curtis in an interview with British Vogue. “I felt so uncomfortable!”
In the 1999 romantic comedy, Roberts plays a well-known actress who falls in love with a bookstore owner played by Hugh Grant. “I mean, we talked about it so many times, but I almost didn’t take the role because she was just – she was just so unpleasant,” Roberts told Curtis. “I didn’t even know how to play this person.” Because she, in her own words, “loathed” the clothing for her movie star role, Roberts wore her own clothes in the iconic scene in which her character explains to the book salesman that she is “just a girl.” To do this, she sent her driver back to her apartment that morning.
Source: Stern
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