SPOTLIGHT
foreveryoung | March 2014
p.4
Julia
Roberts
earned a
Best Actress
Academy
Award in
2000.
Julia Roberts …from page 3
ham Hotel in Pasadena, Ca.
She looked amazing, but
confided that she had to
make a sacrifice for her role
in The Normal Heart. Roberts, who plays Dr. Emma
Brooker, noted, “They made
me put on weight so it
would more fit the role.” At
the HBO press conference,
reporters wanted to know
how she felt about “taking
on an unglamorous role.”
Roberts was amused by the
thought. “It’s funny, when a
girl just looks like a person,
she is unglamorous,” she
said smiling.“Of course, I’m
just saying.”
Despite a lot of interest
in her personal life, it was
more fascinating to hear
about why she signed on to
do the HBO movie.“My relationship with Ryan [Ryan
Murphy, producer-director
of The Normal Heart, also
of Glee and American Horror Story] provided me with
such an incredible education, and this definitely is
another stone on that path
of knowledge that we share
together, because