Why does everyone love Julia Roberts?

It is today that the great Hollywood actress will receive the César of Honor. The opportunity to return to a colorful course of a legend of popular cinema.

She will be the star of this Friday evening: Julia Roberts is invited to Caesar To receive an honorary prize for the whole of his career. Live meeting on Canal +, and on Premiere.fr, to follow The 50th ceremony from 8:50 p.m..

To wait, the editorial team offers you to come back to the journey of this incredibly popular actress … especially in France, where it counts Thirteen millionaire films at the box office. Love at first sight in Notting Hill,, Ocean’s Eleven And Pretty Woman are in particular big success with us with more than 4 million admissions each.

Everyone loves Hollywood’s most beautiful smile

Whether it is displayed for luxury advertisements or film posters, his broad smile has won the public all over the world. It is particularly highlighted on those of Pretty Woman,, Love at first sight in Notting Hill,, My best friend’s wedding,, Wonder,, My best enemy,, Love and lies,, Just Married (or almost)…

Everyone fell in love with Julia Roberts in the cinema

Julia Roberts took her first steps in the genre of romantic comedy with Mystic pizza (1988) alongside Lili Taylor and Annabeth Gish. She started just at Hollywoodand two years later, the actress kissed success with her role as prostitute in Pretty Woman of Garry Marshall. This is the revelation. Widely praised by criticism, his performance earned him a appointment to The Oscar for best actress for the first time. A cult romantic comedy which should have been much darker, and which transformed into “feel good movie” will cross the generations by making his character, Viviana legend.

Always in her kind of predilection, we find her in My best friend’s wedding (1997) which is a new success for the young woman. She embodies the plague par excellence and breaks the codes of the Rom-Com. In 1999, she crossed paths with the specialist in romantic comedy, Hugh grantwith whom she forms an outstanding duo in Love at first sight in Notting Hill. In front of the camera of Roger Michellit’s love at first sight between the movie star Anna Scott and the English bookseller. A puff of oxygen for the actress who had not shot Romcom for almost ten years because “Most were shitty.” With this British comedy, Julia Roberts signs a new classic that has not taken a single wrinkle. While gently making fun of her acting profession.

In 1999, Julia Roberts presented love at first sight in Notting Hill in Première

Sometimes it breaks: if Mexicana film that mixes romance and action, is not as successful as planned in 2001, Julia returns to majesty in this genre thanks to Ryan Murphy In Eat, pray, love In 2010. And even when it is not quite Rom-Coms, she manages to expand characters of “love interests” like nobody, of the bell-bell fairy in love with Peter Pan in Hook (1991) to the beloved (ex) companion of Danny Ocean (George Clooney) In The robbery saga staged by Steven Soderberghfrom 2001 to 2007.

Everyone likes to see a star playing with his image

Raised in a family of actors (his brother Eric Roberts accounts more than 800 roles to his credit. Is it eight times more than her sister!), Was Julia born to be a star? Once revealed in Hollywood, she in any case did not hesitate to have fun with her image, just like her fiction lover George Clooney. She did not wait for their reunion in Money Monster (2016) or in Ticket to Paradise (2022) to play with her status as a queen romantic comedies. One of his best auto-Parises? In Friends (1996), she had alertness to take revenge on Chand (Matthew Perry, then her companion in the city), because of whom she received the nickname “Suzie la Culotte”. A shooting that was not easy for the actress, who had a panic crisis when filming her scene, says the director of the cult series Michael Lembec : “I was going to catch the gangrene if it would shake my right hand a bit stronger than it already did.”With the help of Matthew Perrythe actress quickly felt more comfortable, until they laugh out loud as she knows how to do it so well …

Julia has humor, and she also proven it on the saga Ocean’sa universe filled with very friendly actors (Clooney,, Pitt And Matt Damon are known to make jokes in and off shoot).

The main actor said how he had convinced the actress to join the cast: “I knew she earned $ 20 million per film. We had just hired Brad and Matt on Ocean’s 11 And we dreamed that she did it with us, so I put a 20 dollars ticket on the script that I sent her, with a message that said: ‘I heard that you won 20 dollars per film now?‘“.

It made the actress laugh, she signed, then when he made her first film, Confessions of a dangerous man In 2002, it was with joy that she agreed to participate.

Everyone loves him for his darker roles

Despite her undeniable talent for her kind of predilection, the actress has been widely rewarded and admired for her roles in dramas or thrillerssuch as The Pelican casein 1993. When she played the main role ofErin Brockovich, alone against all (2000) by Steven Soderbergh, a trial film that tells the true story of water pollution in Hinkley (California), she won theOscar for best actress For its impeccable performance.

Drama is a genre that it takes taste from the start of her career, although she often remains associated with Rom-Coms in the minds of the public. We find it for example in My best enemy (1998) of Chris Columbusfor which she is also a producer, or A summer in County osage (2013), family melo where she faces the fabulous Meryl Streep (appointment toOscar for best supporting role). In addition to the Alan thriller J. Pakula in which she gave the reply to Denzel Washingtonshe participates in Plot of Richard give (1997). She even tries herself up to the kind of The musical (Everyone says i love you of Woody Allen), and also ventures into animation by lending his voice to characters in Charlotte’s little world (2007) after Lucas, ant despite himself (2006). Our “Pretty Woman” is not afraid of anything and that’s why we love it!

Everyone loves an inspiring and committed woman

Julia Roberts has not only devoted her life to the cinema, she is also activist and committed For many social causes. Defending fervent of LGBTQ+rights, she is interested in environmental issuesto the medicine and fight for gender equality. The actress and producer participated in the program Running Wild With Bear Gryllsto allow certain communities of Nairobi to benefit from vaccines. So there you go, Julia Roberts we love her for her films, for her devastating smile, but also and above all for her simplicity, her inspiration and her fights.

57 years old, the Hollywood actress who has become muse of Lacome Also advocates a message of kindness on the physical (women, but not only), and aging. Too bad for wrinkles! Feminist in the soul, she had marked the Cannes Film Festival By parading barefoot on the red carpet in reaction to the compulsory heels for women. And of course, through her films, the actress embodies committed characters like a mother who makes every effort to defend her community in Erin Brockovich, alone against all or as a mother of a boy with a rare disease in Wonder by Stephen Chbosky (2017).

Another conviction that she assumes loud and clear: Julia Roberts has always refused to turn naked. Despite her prostitute role in Pretty Womanshe never was shown without any clothes on the screen.

The actress sets her limits and is not ashamed to say: “I do not criticize the choices of other actresses, but as far as I am concerned, not undressing in a film or being physically vulnerable is a choice that I made for myself! It is deliberate. I would say that I choose not to do certain things rather than to choose to do something.”

She also publicly told how love scenes in Pretty Woman made him anxious until he caused him a crisis of anxiety. But don’t panic, the director Garry Marshall and his partner Richard Gere stole his rescue. To top it all, the international star is also producer with Happyness Sold Separately (2007) by Scott Coffrey, A FLOWERING Evil And The Friday Night Knitting Club. A profession, as we know, more difficult to access when a woman is.

Everyone falls for their voice

The French version From our “Pretty Woman”? We would recognize her among a thousand: she is the actress Celine Monsarrat Who doubles Julia Roberts since 1988. With a few exceptions, it is therefore one of the few American actresses to have had the same voice in VF since its beginnings, and the air of nothing, it also participates in creating a particular link with the French publicwhich finds a certain familiarity of film in film, even when Julia Roberts’ proposals are very different.

Inspiring personality for women in the cinema, and in general, Julia Roberts will also be rewarded for her strength of character, her unforgettable commitments and her characters this evening. A well -deserved honor of honor for the one who has rocked several generations of moviegoers.

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