: Julia Roberts rejected rom-coms for 20 years because a good script didnt exist #IndiaNEWS #Cinema Los Angeles, April 19 | Actors Julia Roberts and George Clooney-starring Ticket to Paradise opens

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Julia Roberts rejected rom-coms for 20 years because a good script didnt exist #IndiaNEWS #Cinema
Los Angeles, April 19 | Actors Julia Roberts and George Clooney-starring Ticket to Paradise opens in theatres later this year, it will mark Roberts first time leading a romantic comedy in more than 20 years.
The genre made Roberts a global superstar in the 1990s, from her Oscar-nominated performance in Pretty Women to rom-com classics My Best Friends Wedding and Notting Hill, among others. One would have to go all the way back to 2001s Americas Sweethearts for the last traditional rom-com led by Roberts.
As the actor recently told The New York Times, she wasnt purposefully avoiding the genre that made her a superstar. Roberts said her extended hiatus from the rom-com genre was not her choice, but a result of the lack of an adequate script or idea, reports Variety.
People sometimes misconstrue the amount of time thats gone by that I havent done a romantic comedy as my not wanting to do one, Roberts said.
If I had read something that I thought was that Notting Hill level of writing or My Best Friends Wedding level of madcap fun, I would do it. They didnt exist until this movie that I just did that Ol Parker wrote and directed.
The Ol Parker film is Ticket to Paradise, which pairs Roberts opposite longtime friend and collaborator Clooney. The movie almost became yet another one of Roberts rejected rom-coms because she thought it would only work well opposite Clooney.
Lo and behold, George felt it only worked with me. Somehow we were both able to do it, and off we went, Roberts said about returning to the genre.
When asked if she stayed away from romantic comedies for 20 years because there wasnt a single good script, not one, Roberts answered, Yeah, reports Variety.
Heres the thing: If Id thought something was good enough, I would have done it, Roberts said. But I also had three kids in the last 18 years.
That raises the bar even more because then its not only Is this material good? Its also the math equation of my husbands work schedule and the kids school schedule and summer vacation. Its not just, Oh, I think I want to do this. I have a sense of great pride in being home with my family and considering myself a homemaker.
Roberts added, As they get older, and particularly with my daughter, I do have a sense of responsibility for showing my children that I can be creative and that its meaningful to me so meaningful that for periods of time I will choose to focus on that almost more than my family, which has been hard for me to come to terms with.
One of the biggest rumours to emerge out of Roberts tenure as a rom-com icon was that her trademark smile was insured for million.
The Oscar winner shut down that speculation in her New York Times interview, saying, No.

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