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For an actress as talented and beloved asJulia Roberts, it’s not easy hiding her superstar status from her family.
TheHomecomingstar, 50, recently opened up in an interview withOprah WinfreyforHarper’s Bazaar‘s November cover story, explaining that she has learned how to field questions about her level of notoriety from her three children: 11-year-old sonHenry Danieland twinsHazel Patricia and Phinneaus “Finn” Walter, 13.
“I don’t think they will ever have a true sense of [my fame],” said Roberts. “I think I told you once when they were starting to figure it out, it was like, ‘You’re famous?’ And I said, ‘I thinka lot of people might have seenthe movie that I’m in or might know who I am.’ ”
“Do you imagine a day when you all sit down as a family and watchPretty Woman?” asked Winfrey, 64.
“No,” said the actress, although, “I imagine a day that we all sit down and maybe watch My Best Friend’s Wedding.”
In her upcoming drama filmBen Is Back, out Dec. 7, Roberts plays the mother ofLucas Hedges‘ character Ben Burns. And her youngest child made an interesting point about his mom’s newest film role that ended up making him and his older siblings a couple of new friends.
“My son Henry had said to me, ‘Mom, why in movies when you play somebody’s mom, why is it always a boy?’ And I said, ‘Wow, I don’t know. You know what? We’re going to have Lucas come over and you guys are going to meet him.’ ”
“So Lucas came over, as did beautiful Kathryn Newton, who plays my older daughter,” Roberts shared. “I would just send themdown to the beach withmy kids. ‘Go for a swim, and I’ll see you guys in an hour and I’ll have lunch ready.’ ”
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“And what I saw in that exact moment was the complete need for me as a parent to find a way to make her feel that she could still have a voice.”
“That’s why we went to the firstWomen’s March in Washington— I wanted her to feel like she still had a place in the world, that she could still believe in what she believed in, even though someone else was now president,” Roberts explained. “It was very powerful for me to have her, in a way, be my leader into this space of marching and participating inbeing a citizen of this country.”
source: people.com
