Julia Roberts Talks New Film Wonder and the Importance of Human Connection
Julia Roberts has not really changed since Pretty Woman; she still possesses the same confidence, the same empathy, and the same natural charm coupled with a hypnotic aura. Her latest role, as the mother of a child with Treacher Collins syndrome in Stephen Chbosky's Wonder, has been very well received, and she's looking as beautiful as ever in a new campaign out for the tights brand Calzedonia. And yet, Roberts, whose smile is worth far more than a million dollars, still traces her career path with humility. Here, we caught up the Hollywood superstar under a late summer sun in Verona.
Being an ambassador of a tights line, while your legs are the object of a fascination, of a myth itself, is this a way for you to play with your own image?
In part, yes. I find it fun and important to cultivate all those things that are part of you and that you can never change, without dwelling on what it generates. This story of legs, of a smile... all this is only a dice throw. My two sisters and I have different physiques. Chance wanted me to inherit such legs.
