Why does Julia Roberts actively seek no publicity ?

Dignity. She doesn't need it. She's had it all and she isn't thirsty.

Julia has reached her expiration date - and she knows it. She can now rest on her past glories.

r2 JLo and Jen didn't ?

She hit her big payday decades ago. She also seems to live modestly for a rich person so she probably doesn't need any more cash

She’s no longer a pretty woman. Perhaps she could be lured back were the property entitled Handsome Dowager, but Hollywood’s stacks and stacks of those.

Because she loves herself, OP.

Doesn't actively seek publicity NOW.

Back in the day, yes. She played the game as good as anyone. Ask Danny Moder's first wife.

Her best work was in Hook.

She does her work and then goes home. She isn't an attention whore like J. Lo, Gwyneth and Jennifer Aniston are.

She’s old.

She doesn't need to for people to remember her.

That aging face takes a lot of prep to avoid looking methy.

Paparazzi hounded her, is she has any privacy now it’s hard won. She’s always a capable actress and on occasion, she’s been good. She was also very, very attractive and appealing when she was younger. She doesn’t deserve the shit she gets. Also Mike Nichols knocked the Julia Roberts right out of her before on film and I’ve liked her in other things.

Compare her to Madonna. Julia's smarter than she was probably given credit for.

Julia is no Madonna.

GREAT...THIS LEAVES MORE WORK FOR ME!!

R15 Julia's no Madonna And all the better for it!

I don’t think it interests her. She will publicize a project but in between projects she doesn’t need to push herself. Most of the big stars are this way. The lesser stars like Reese, Gwyneth or JHo are a different story.

I thought I read once that to be “papped” with a new purse, Reese Witherspoon charges $35,000 plus two handbags.

"I'm not on Meth! This is just hillbilly genetics!"

[quote] Dignity. She doesn't need it. She's had it all and she isn't thirsty.

That was my first thought. She has risen as high in her profession as is possible, had all the fame and glory anyone could want, and pribsaw there’s no there there. Better to be here than Madonna, still trying to be relevant’ in her societies.

I have some old (boring) gossip. I have a family member who is/was related by marriage to Julia's property manager/groundskeeper in New Mexico (don't know if still works for her). About 15 years or so ago my family member visited him at Julia's New Mexico ranch and he gave her a tour of the property. He said Julia was very nice and treated him very well. Gave him gifts like pinball machines and arcade games because she knew he was a fan. He said she was very low key and low maintenance. Before the kids were born, she preferred to stay in a small house on the property that had dirt floors as opposed to the larger, nicer house because it seemed cozier.

She seems nice enough, based on his account, but then I've also read gossip about how demeaning she is to other women, how she treated her husband's ex-wife, and so I don't know what to think. Whoever she really is, she is smart enough to not constantly court publicity. Regardless of her drug use and the issues with how she got married, she seems to have done a good job in preserving her reputation.

She downscaled her life to raise her children. She didn't want them growing up in LA and the celebrity and paparazzi bullshit. (See Will Smith's children).

Acting roles will come and go - but you only have one chance to raise children right and that's your longest legacy. It sounds trite but it's true.

She made a brave and unusual choice - good for her. Doesn't look like she regrets any of it.

Dirt floors?

JR was compelling in August: Osage County but since then not so much. Roles dry up for actresses in their 50s. She can play a Mommy role--Wonder, Ben Is Back--but her romantic comedy days are pretty much over. I wonder if she'll hold out for some well-written dramatic roles.

R24 linoleum that hasn’t seen a mop.

Julia is doing a rom com / divorced couple film with George Clooney. I wonder if they have any chemistry in their 60’s.

Did Clooney ever have chemistry with his non-male co stars?

[quote]actively seek no publicity.

Makes no sense at all. She is actively doing other things.

Yes, I swear, dirt floors. Not in the big, fancy house, but in the small house. They didn't sound "dirty", though, from my family member's recounting.

I just googled and the fancy term for them is "earthen floors".

She learned from the movies stars of yore. She has been there and done that. She has no need to look for attention. And quite frankly she knows any director (besides Spielberg who just needs to let it go) would consider it a triumph to have her in a movie. She seems to be content with the "special guest star" credits or the "with" or "and" credits in anything she does.

J=Lo and Aniston have more volatile personal lives.

What can they say aabout Julia?

Julia Roberts still married to same guy?

R15 honey. Julia got everything Madonna has always wanted. Madonna wanted to be Marilyn. Julia was basically Marilyn in the girl next door version. That's why Madonna loathes her and was a total cunt to her but still acknowledging "I know who you are". Of course she did.

M and Julia clashed on August: Osage County. Or at least during the press afterwards. Julia's team put out a rumor that Meryl would go supporting and Julia lead at the Oscars. They also cut the film so Julia had the last scene not Meryl like in the play.

Harvey W. even went on TV to say the rumors were false (like we'd trust him.)

Julia then relented and took the lower supporting nom and Meryl went lead.

She was kind of nasty at a press conference when asked about working with Meryl she said "Meryl needs her cues!" Implying Meryl would get mad if someone bobbled a line. When the crowd gasped Julia giggled and backtracked saying as she should. She's Meryl Streep.

She hasn’t even paid the 30k for her walk of fame star. You have to pay the fee and agree to a publicity tour. That’s why she never got one, even in the 90s when she was IT. Some people prefer quiet lives.

in the 90s she had too much publicity too fast. She drifted into a quiet low profile mode after the problems on Hook and her last minute cancellation of the Keifer Sutherland marriage.

I think she just grew up.

Which, frankly, is shocking.

R34 if you get those two caliber of actresses together on one film it's never gonna be easy. Remember when the film was announced..."the world's best actress and the world's most famous actress." Yeah that was never gonna be a walk in the park. But they seemed to put it behind them. Meryl should be more concerned about how Julia mopped the floor with her.

Yeah Meryl did sit behind Julia at the Oscars so all appeared to be well.

(although I'm sure Meryl still harbors some annoyance at her.)

and by the way that was such a ripoff. They were clearly both lead actresses. The Oscars have to stop that category fraud thing. This year I'd say four of the five "supporting actors" were actually lead.

I believe both roles at the Tonys were considered Lead. I'm pretty sure Julia had more screen time too.

¿Que?

R13 a very astute observation. Nichols really did show her to take the Julia Roberts out of every role. And she actually kinda has since. She's stunning in Closer. Raw and fragile and she seemed less confident as a character than she normally played.

I dunno, I keep seeing stuff about her having bad hygeine and hairy pits. I never could stand the bitch.

I love it up here!!! (patented laugh.)

If she's fine financially, why should she seek publicity. The movie industry is dead, hardly any good movies are being made, so she doesn't have anything to promote. In the long term, I think it's better to not be in the yellow press 24/7 like Jolie and Pitt it did for years.

I kinda like that she may be the only bitch with the credentials to outcunt Madonna. And Grandmadonna knows it.

Why is there always some specimen like r6 so ready to post a link to a “satirical” segment of the celebrity, from a cartoon made by some smug immature frat type? Are we supposed to think some perpetual man-baby like Seth Macfarlane or Trey Parker has Julia Roberts’ number? I mean, really?

She’s literally achieved as much fame and success as a movie star possibly could - what’s left? She has absolutely nothing to prove - been there, done that x 1000.

She has found this kind of happy perfect medium - she somehow maintains her high level of fame (a hermit she’s not) without having to chase it (or seemingly not having to). Basically A-list emeritus.

And she’s a good actress too. Much better than most (on here certainly) give her credit.

Please, OP, such grammar. It’s “Why doesn’t Julia Robert’s not seek no publicity?”

Julia is a Grade A Cunt movie star. Madonna is barely on her radar. Which bothers Madonna more than her.

I've always thought Meryl got too excited on August Osage County, Like she needed to perform for all these famous people when the most famous one wasn't playing that.. And that performance actually registered.

i think she has done her thing and can pick her projects. she clearly wants no extra drama/coverage. HOWEVER, IMO she kind of sucks and keeps cropping up in strange projects. glad she did all she did in her hey-day and even outside of it, but she seems to be a grade A bitch who needs a bitch slap. she plays herself ALL of the time. no range. she needs to retire and she is well equipped to do so. bye-bye.

I think she reveals a lot of herself in this interview with Patty Arquette, which is also super classy. You can tell she really admires the actress Arquette has become and shows her a lot of respect.

She has remained beautiful.

Youth isn’t the only viable representation of beauty. And while Julia may not have the bone structure of Katherine Hepburn, (who IMHO, remained GORGEOUS-even as an elder lez), she’s still doing alright for herself.

She looks great.

Very pretty woman, indeed.

Not a lot of people saw Ben Is Back, but she’s tremendous in it, as raw and real as she was in Closer and August. Should’ve been her fifth nomination.

Because she ain't young and lusciously pretty anymore.

She is from Georgia and she moved to Texas years ago to raise her family. She produces more than she acts. She still wants to be in the creative business and make money but yes, it seems pretty clear that fame is not the biggest goal in her game.

She has also said that she had serious depression years ago tied to a feeling of not being good enough and being too old. When she did that Amazon show a couple of years ago (I thought the show was OK but it was one of her best performances.), people here were brutal about how she has aged.

So yeah, why would anyone but particularly someone prone to depression from social pressures want to put themselves in the position to be judged so harshly for getting older and looking how their genes make them look?

I like her a lot as an actress and I never had any problems with her as a celebrity. Not sure where all the hate for her comes from. I actually think she's got better acting chops than Streep.

R54, thanks for sharing that. I think Julia looks great, and glad she hasn’t fucked up her face. And Patricia Arquette is a really cool chick.

R54 Love that interview.

I don't know if people just play into it for fun or if they really believe the rumors, but it's preposterous to think that all the women who are rumored to be evil megabitch narcissists (as Julia's reputation has been discussed endlessly here for years) really are.

I have a feeling she's a serious professional and introverted, maybe even melancholy by nature, and kind of no-nonsense. Maybe because everyone expects her to be the character she used to play a lot, just silly with a big old smile and always laughing, people think she's mean when she's just focused on getting the work done.

R32 JLo is an exhibitionist. Jennifer Aniston seems nice, but her life seems superficial. Who knows though.

Last I knew, I wasn't the only person on Datalounge who disliked Julia Roberts and thought August: Osage County was dreck, but apparently I am.

She's playing Martha Mitchell in a TV miniseries about Watergate with Sean Penn.

Wasn't Mitchell a really outlandish colorful woman? (before my time)

Julia has achieved everything an actress CAN achieve in Hollywood. She was the 1990s. Why should she be chasing to be in People Mag every week?

Would you prefer her to be Madonna, begging for attention until the day she dies?

R64, that sounds like a good role for her. Listen to Slow Burn, S01 E01, all about Martha Mitchell and what the Nixon administration did to her.

It's not that she doesn't seek it out. It's that she's no longer sought after.

Which is sad. A real travesty.

She really did have a quite a run, didn't she?

Proud that gal. Really.

I thought she was more reviled on Data Lounge than this thread would suggest. I never thought of her as a brilliant actress, but I never thought she was bad. And for an actress whose looks are always part of the discussion, I think she was better still. Still not saying she's a great actress for the ages, but it always seemed she got a lot of unfair criticism.

August, Osage County may be the exception I know (not having seen all or maybe even most of her films) in which she is bad, exception. but she had no shortage of company doing the very same in that film as I recall.

As for her aging, of course she's older. Notting Hill was 22 years ago, but she's only 53 an age where a woman who takes reasonable care of herself can be quite good looking — she's got a good 80 more years before she looks as rough as that old trout Goldie Hawn or some of the horrors hidden behind wigs and industrial barrels of war paint. If she's made up to within an inch of her life and dressed extravagantly for Lancome, that's the nature of her work. Look up her "no makeup" photos and she looks good, maybe better than some of her made up looks.

As for moving out of Hollywood and keeping a quiet, low profile life for herself, that earns her more respect in my books than anything else. Contrast having a life that's mostly your own and on your terms with the stink of desperation that emits from so many actors, their faces and hairdos freakishly frozen in that look from their "prime" years, falling over over rich geezers eager to suck a wizened old knob or three for a walk on part in a TikTok.

It's too risky to hide that "she" is a man as "she" gets older, so "she" stays out of the spotlight.

Well, having fought hard and dirty for Danny, she looks to have built a nice family life with him and their kids. That's sustaining.

There's a name for a lady like her, but it isn't used outside of a kennel.

I think JR doesn’t get as much publicity as her peers because she’s ‘happily’ married or presents that way. JLo, Aniston, Paltrow have all been through high profile divorces and are single, except Paltrow who has her crazy Goop antics that gets her publicity. So with the singles it’s all about who they are dating. The actress from that generation who I think is the thirstiest publicity wise is none other than Jennifer Garner. She plays demure, but it seems like all an act. The way she trots her kids out is certainly for attention. She would’ve been long forgotten if she didn’t marry Affleck.

R23, doesn’t she live in CA full time now? So she certainly is raising her kids in or around Hollywood. Wouldn’t be surprised if another nepotistic model or actress/actor is foisted upon us soon.

Her sister's suicide must have had an emotional effect on her.

She wore out her welcome with me after EAT, PRAY, LOVE and during her Oprah interview to promote the film. So phony and self-serving. Oprah got on my nerves with that interview as well. It was like she was licking Julia’s taint or something.

[quote] Wouldn’t be surprised if another nepotistic model or actress/actor is foisted upon us soon.

Isn’t she just a shadow now of her former megastardom? She does perfume ads and the occasional television project. I don’t even think she can top line a movie anymore. It’s a blessing.

[quote]She's playing Martha Mitchell in a TV miniseries about Watergate with Sean Penn.

The story what happened to Martha Mitchell is certainly one of the most shocking side stories around Watergate.

Did she divorce her husband immediately after they released her? Clearly all they did to her was done with his approval. She was actually beaten up in the hotel room where they had locked her away.

Mitchell always denied he approved all the campaign intelligence activities Gordon Liddy got involved with, but Jeb Magruder and others said Mitchell was the one who signed off on the DNC break in at the Watergate.

Didn't she fuck San Penn in the 90s. They're very good friends . Julia has fucked most of her male friends. Also most of her Hollywood friends are male. That's odd

Sean*

Honey because she doesn't have to. She's Julia Roberts.

Wait, now DL loves this overrated hag? WTF? The bitch nearly ruined "Stepmom"!

Sue already hitched her wagon to Julia and made a ton of money when Stepmom did crazy business as a Christmas release.

She loves her life!

I kind of love the bitch is so full of herself. What the fuck do you expect from a movie star.?

Her daughter is beautiful

R78 Gay guy here...I don't understand why women are still condemned for having sex with people and gay men and straight men are congratulated for it. It wouldn't surprise anyone to learn that any given gay man has had sex with many of his gay friends. No one would look down on him. When straight men do it, the common interpretation is that he is a 'player' and those women are his 'conquests.' If a woman has sex with her male friends, then people bring it up constantly and throw it into the middle of a conversation with the expectation everyone will condemn her for being a disgusting filthy whore. That reaction is less and less common these days, but cmon, it's time to stop that. People fuck. It's nothing new.