Julia Roberts Interview for Eat Pray Love - Celebrity Interviews

From her Oscar-nominated role as Best Supporting Actress in Steel Magnolias in 1989, Julia Roberts has managed to have much of her roles be the finger on the pulse into the psyche of the everyday American woman. This has proven true from her Best Actress Oscar-nominated role in Pretty Woman to Sleeping With The Enemy to Notting Hill to Runaway Bride to Notting Hill to her Best Actress Oscar-winning role in Erin Brokovich to Ocean’s Eleven and Ocean’s Twelve and countless others.

Now the 42 year-old actress hopes to work her magic with women once again with her role as author Elizabeth Gilbert in a film adaptation of her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Roberts says the decision of playing Elizabeth in a film version of the book was a no-brainer for her as she was a huge fan of the book

“I read the book before it became hugely popular,” Julia claims, “And I was glad about that because I am very suggestible. So I’ll be swayed. I’ll be determined to not like something, or I’ll be determined to like it better than four million other people.”

“So I had read it before it became so wildly popular,” she continues, “And thought it was so terrific, that thirty pages into it, got on Amazon.com and sent one to my best friend in Chicago and said, “Let’s read this in tandem, because I think it’s going to get real good real fast.”

Julia also says the opportunity of traveling to Naples in Italy, Bali in Indonesia, and Pataudi in India was too good to pass up doing.”

“[Deciding to do it] was weeks, because it’s not just committing to a job,” she says, “You’re committing to so much travel and so much time away from home. And it is working every day. And it’s just a lot of stuff. A lot more math goes into a decision like this, than just, ‘I don’t want to drive to Sony three days a week for a couple months.’

“It’s funny. [Co-star]Richard [Jenkins] said something very witty in Mexico about becoming an actor to see the world,” Roberts adds, “And I think that’s one of the things that was hugely interesting and ultimately gratifying for all of us was to really make those efforts… Read the complete interview here Celebrity Interviews