{"id":86568,"date":"2024-02-10T05:32:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T05:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=86568"},"modified":"2024-02-10T05:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T05:32:17","slug":"julia-roberts-turned-down-role-notting-hill-for-reason-you-cant-imagine","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/julia-roberts-turned-down-role-notting-hill-for-reason-you-cant-imagine\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts Almost Turned Down the Role in Notting Hill (for a Reason You Can’t Imagine)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It seems impossible to imagine the cult film Notting Hill<\/strong><\/em> without Julia Roberts<\/em>. Yet, the actress was on the verge of refusing her now-loved role.<\/p>\n

As everyone will recall, the film revolves around the love story<\/strong> between American actress Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) and the owner of a London bookstore, William Thacker<\/em> (played by Hugh Grant<\/em>).<\/p>\n

In an interview for the latest issue of British Vogue<\/em>, Julia Roberts told director Richard Curtis<\/em>, who wrote Notting Hill, that she hesitated a lot before accepting the role of Anna Scott.<\/p>\n

The reason? Because the character was, like Julia herself, a movie star.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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From the outside, it might seem easy for an actor to play the role of another actor. But Julia Roberts didn’t see it that way.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, one of the most challenging things<\/strong> I’ve ever had to do was your film, playing a movie actress,”<\/em> said the 56-year-old actress during the interview.<\/p>\n

“I was so uncomfortable!<\/strong> I almost didn’t take the part because it seemed… well, it seemed so awkward,<\/strong> I didn’t even know how to portray that person.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Hollywood actress revealed that she “especially hated being dressed as a movie star.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For this reason, during the famous scene where her character tells the bookstore owner, “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her,”<\/em> Julia Roberts asked to wear her personal clothes, the ones she had shown up with on set, and not the wardrobe department’s chosen outfits.<\/p>\n

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During the interview, Julia Roberts also talked about her affinity for romantic comedies.<\/p>\n

“I love the genre. Although I also think it’s incredibly complicated.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“I didn’t realize how lucky I was until I left it behind.<\/strong> Just think that I acted in Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, and My Best Friend’s Wedding. Usually, opportunities like these don’t come so consecutively. So, I think I’ve been lucky.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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