“Fill in my smile lines? Do you know how many good stories are in there? How many good laughs, how many great dinner parties?”
Julia Roberts spent the beginning of this year locked down in Queensland. One of Hollywood’s most famous women was in the Whitsundays filming with George Clooney when Covid numbers spiked and the pair had to quarantine. Clooney, who had his family with him, rescued Roberts from loneliness as she became part of their bubble. It sounds like something out of the kind of movie Roberts made her name doing in the ’90s, when she became the first female actor to make more than $US20 million a movie following hit films such as (1990), (1997) and (1999). But the queen of rom-coms has spent the past 20 years expanding her repertoire with dramas, thrillers and action films, earning herself an Academy Award along the way for . With her close friend and five-time co-star, sees Roberts in her first rom-com since 2001, a move heralded by film critics as marking the long-awaited renaissance of the genre. Here, the Lancôme ambassador, who turns 55 this month, gets candid about family, mental health and ageing naturally.
