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Two weeks after Julia Roberts made her first appearance at the Venice Film Festival to debut her latest film, After the Hunt, her time in Italy is still making headlines. Earlier this week, Italian journalist Federica Polidoro’s uncomfortable interview of Roberts and her costars Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield went viral, after Polidoro directed a question about the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements to Roberts and Garfield—completely excluding Edebiri.
Edebiri has been praised on social media for how she handled the awkward interview. Roberts, meanwhile, showed support for her costar in the moment, appearing shocked when Polidoro first asked the question and replying, “Can you repeat that? And with your sunglasses on, I can’t tell which of us you’re talking to.”
In Venice, Roberts had already gone viral for another moment of camaraderie: when she arrived at the festival wearing a playfully irreverent cardigan emblazoned with After the Hunt director Luca Guadagnino’s face. “I have to give a lot of credit to [stylist] Elizabeth Stewart, ’cause we hatched this plan a while ago,” Roberts told Vanity Fair at a Veuve Clicquot and Jacquemus dinner party in New York on Tuesday. “I love to do things like that during a press tour, wear clothes with my cast mates’ and directors’ faces on them to show my love and appreciation. I like to have fun and mix it up, and not be serious all the time.”
Her custom knit garment was a hit with the Italian auteur. “Luca was super chuffed by it,” Roberts said. “He’s so fashion driven and he’s so design oriented, so I was really happy that he was really chuffed.”
Venice isn’t the only place Roberts has shown support for a colleague through method dressing. At the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors, she paid sartorial tribute to her Ticket to Paradise costar and longtime friend George Clooney by wearing a one-of-a-kind Jeremy Scott–designed Moschino gown adorned with framed photos of the actor. “I’m waiting for his daughter to turn 16 so I can get it out of my closet and put it in hers,” Roberts said. “I hope she will like wearing it as much as I did.”
After the Hunt is polarizing, drawing strong reactions from early viewers. “It’s exciting that people are talking about the film,” said Roberts, who plays a professor weighing a fraught sexual assault accusation in the drama. “Luca is such a master storyteller, and what he’s brilliantly done is taking a group of people and creating an environment that’s kind of like an academia powder keg. He fills up the small space with so much story and detail that it’s meant to stir up different opinions, feelings, and points of view.”
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Paul Chi
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