Julia Roberts Says Not Doing Nude Scenes ‘Is a Choice I Make for Myself,’ Says Being Famous Now Is Too ‘Cluttered’ and ‘Exhausting’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Julia Roberts was interviewed for a Vogue UK fashion spread by her “Notting Hill” director Richard Curtin, who asked the Oscar winner if she feels “responsibility to other women” when choosing her movie roles as an A-list star for well over three decades. “Do you ever think, ‘I’m representing something?” Curtis asked Roberts. “I think it would be more to the point that the things I choose not to do are representative of me,” Roberts answered, noting that “my G-rated career” is an example. “You know, not to be criticizing others’ choices, but for me to not take off my clothes in a movie or be vulnerable in physical ways is a choice that I guess I make for myself,” Roberts said about how she’s chosen to represent herself. “But in effect, I’m choosing not to do something as opposed to choosing to do something.” While Roberts has starred in sexually-charged films such as Mike Nichols’ “Closer,” she has never gone nude on screen before.

She told Vogue UK it’s been a deliberate choice. Curtis also asked Roberts to weigh in on rising stars and whether or not it’s easier or more difficult to be a star nowadays than when she exploded onto the scene in the 1990s. “Oh, it’s completely different from my time,” Roberts said. “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.” “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,” she continued. “There are so many elements to being famous now, it just seems exhausting.