(CNN) — With her signature smile and timeless style, Julia Roberts may be a beauty icon, but she doesn’t take herself too seriously.
When asked in a new interview with British Vogue what keeps her young at 56, the actress responded with humor.
“Pickles. I put the head in the jar every other Saturday for 18 hours. “It works like a charm,” he joked. “The smell is horrible.”
Julia Roberts appears on the cover of the February issue of British Vogue. In an interview for the magazine with “Notting Hill” screenwriter Richard Curtis, she talks about eternal beauty, the “feminist” decisions she’s made in her career and what it feels like to be one of the most famous in Hollywood.
Julia Roberts in a photoshoot for British Vogue magazine in the February 2023 issue. (Credit: Lachlan Bailey/Vogue)
“Lead a fulfilling life”
Jokes aside, Roberts says the key to youth is the people and experiences that make up your life. Of course, genetics help too.
“Good genes, living a full life, and I said it, and I usually say it as a joke, but I believe in the love of a good man,” she told the publication. “I believe that my husband loves me and cares for me in a way that makes me feel deeply happy. And whenever you see someone happy, it doesn’t matter how old he is.”
The world largely knows Roberts as “America’s Sweetheart,” a title that follows her starring appearances in beloved romantic comedies like “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” “Pretty Woman” and, of course, the 2001 film “America’s Sweethearts”. (Outside the genre, Roberts won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her lead performance in Erin Brockovich and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in 1990 for her role in Steel Magnolias.”, among the other prizes).
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“Something Familiar”
The fact that audiences identify with her is something Roberts is keenly aware of, for better or worse. “I will say that I think there’s something about me that always makes people feel comfortable or see something familiar,” she said. “If someone sees me in a grocery store and says, ‘Why did you cut your hair like that?’ It’s not because they’re trying to be rude. It’s because they feel like they know me and I sit behind them in church every Sunday.
“It’s that feeling of understanding someone you don’t know. I guess looking relatively like myself takes me out of the character actor lane in most cases. But I never feel like I’m playing with myself.”
(Credit: Lachlan Bailey/Vogue)
Roberts reminded Curtis that she almost turned down the “embarrassing” role of movie star Anna Scott in “Notting Hill,” calling it “one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do.”
“I found it very uncomfortable,” she said of the role, “I didn’t even know how to play that person.” And in a meta-twist, Roberts explained that she hated dressing like a movie star so much that she decided to wear her own clothes in the scene where she says the film’s now-iconic line: “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy.” , asking him to love her.”
Instead of using the wardrobe provided to him on set, Roberts said he sent his driver to his house with instructions to raid his closet. “It was my flip-flops, my nice blue velvet skirt, a T-shirt and my cardigan,” he said.
Roberts also spoke about how feminism appears in her work, highlighting her decision not to do nudity in films.
“I don’t criticize other people’s decisions, but for me, not taking my clothes off in a movie or being physically vulnerable is a choice I think I’m making for myself,” she told the magazine. “In fact, I choose not to do something rather than choose to do something.”
2024-01-12 07:56:00
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