Julia Roberts Explains Why She Hasn’t Done a Romantic Comedy in Years

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Julia Roberts has a big year of film and TV ahead of her, and while she is set to star alongside George Clooney in the upcoming romantic-comedy, the actress has been picky about the roles she's taken on in the past two decades.

In a new interview with, Roberts dished on why it's been years since fans have seen her iconic smile grace the big screen in any romcoms.«People sometimes misconstrue the amount of time that's gone by that I haven't done a romantic comedy as my not wanting to do one,» she explained. «If I had read something that I thought was that  level of writing or  level of madcap fun, I would do it.»«They didn't exist until this movie that I just did that Ol Parker wrote and directed,» Roberts continued, referencing with Clooney. «But even with that, I thought, well, disaster, because this only works if it's George Clooney.

Lo and behold, George felt it only worked with me. Somehow we were both able to do it, and off we went.»Roberts, who also stars alongside Sean Penn in Starz's upcoming series, gushed over both experiences, saying: «To go from John and Martha Mitchell [in ], to play these scenes with the greatest dramatic actor, I think, of my generation in Sean Penn, and then run around Australia with George playing these very funny scenes — I'm living my acting dreams.»Roberts' decision to step back from filming for a while was also due in part to her most important role of all time — being mom to her three children, 17-year-old twins, daughter Hazel and son Phinnaeus and 14-year-old son Henry. «Here's the thing: If I'd thought something was good enough, I would have done it.

But I also had three kids in the last 18 years,» she shared. «That raises the bar even more because then it's not only Is this.