Julia Roberts speaks to Richard Curtis about her marriage, children, career and more for the cover of British Vogue’s February 2024 issue. Read the full British Vogue Julia Roberts interview, here.
Julia Roberts has been a friend for around three decades, ever since she acted in our 1999 film, Notting Hill. I remember when the director Roger Michell, producer Duncan Kenworthy and I first had lunch with her to discuss the possibility of her being in the film, it was very clearly her auditioning us. We were nervous schoolboys being grilled by our potential headmistress, although she was far and away the youngest person at the table.
Do you think it’s easier or harder now for younger actors? Do you think it’s different from your time? Oh, it’s completely different from my time. I mean, that’s when I really feel like a dinosaur, when you just look at the structure of the business. It’s completely different. Better? I don’t know if it’s better, because it’s not my experience, but it just seems very different. And in a way, it seems so cluttered. There are so many elements to being famous now, it just seems exhausting.