Julia Roberts Isn't Giving Up on Romantic Comedies: "I Love Them"

Secret in Their Eyes star would love to read a good script

Julia Roberts' movie roles have run the gamut through the years, but she never forgot her roots.

In a new interview with The New York Times, Roberts opens up about her new, award-buzzing movie, The Secret in Their Eyes, and how far she has come since her romantic comedy days. Having won the Oscar for Erin Brockovich, Roberts seems to have shied away from rom-coms but tells the publication now she would do more.

"People say, oh she's against romantic comedies—I'm not. I love them," she clarifies. "I've been fortunate enough to be in some really good ones, so the bar for me is really high."

With Runaway Bride, Pretty Woman and Notting Hill (just to name a few) in her repertoire, we don't blame her for wanting to go out on top in terms of making romantic comedies. But that's not why she hasn't been doing them.

"It's hard to find a true original idea of a romantic comedy for a 47-year-old person, that's going to be funny and realistic and relatable," she explains. "I'm totally open to it. I would love to read a good romantic comedy."

Someone please send her a script ASAP!

Even though Roberts has appeared in fewer movies over the years, choosing family life over Hollywood, she still has had a major effect on the way business is done. Roberts made her mark when she was the first female actress to be paid $20 million for a movie, so she knows a thing or two about the inequalities in the industry. Interestingly enough, however, she tells the NYT that talking about it almost makes it worse.

"I've done my best, sort of forging my path and standing up for myself. And whatever ripple effect might come from that, I couldn't really say for sure. It's so funny that this is still the topic," she says. "Any of those things that try to herald women at the same time almost perpetuate the problem, because you're saying, 'All hail the women directors.' Well, they're just directors. They're just fabulous directors.

She continues, "For me, I'm a creative person, it's about the part and not losing the part but seeing how far you could push the business side of it. But I would never have risked the creative side of it for the business side of it."

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