Julia Roberts Jokes About Smile Insurance Rumours And Explains Why She Hasn’t Been In A Rom-Com In 20 Years

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Julia Roberts has been waiting for the right script. In an interview with The New York Times Magazine, the 54-year-old Hollywood star dispelled long-running rumours that she had her iconic smile insured. “I mean, if my smile was insured,” she said, “there would be someone at my house on a nightly basis saying, ‘You need to floss longer.'” READ MORE: Julia Roberts Reflects On Success Of ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ 25 Years Later: ‘It Just Worked’ Though Roberts first rose to fame with romantic comedies like “Pretty Woman”, “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “Notting Hill”, she hasn’t appeared in a rom-com in roughly two decades. “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 ‘Notting Hill’ level of writing or ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ level of madcap fun, I would do it.” After all this time, though, Roberts will be debuting a brand new rom-com later this year. “Ticket to Paradise” pairs her up with regular co-star George Clooney.

She added of rom-com roles that might’ve passed her by, “They didn’t exist until this movie that I just did that Ol Parker [writer/director of ‘Mama Mia!

Here We Go Again’] wrote and directed.” It wasn’t just that the scripts weren’t right, though. The actress explained that her personal life also changed the way she approached accepting roles. “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,” Roberts said.. “That raises the bar even more because then it’s not only, Is this material good?