No, I haven’t loved every film Julia Roberts has been in, but give this lady her due. In an age of nothing but pretty faces and tight asses (both of which Roberts has) Jullia Roberts had something extra… TALENT. This woman has chops. The lady has a style and grace on screen like few actresses in our generation have been able to pull off.
On top of all that, she has always struck me as having a pretty good head on her shoulders (beside that whole marriage to Lyle Lovett thing). She has always struck me as the first lady of Hollywood whenever you see her in interviews as well. It’s like she’s in charge of Hollywood… and she knows it… and isn’t a bitch about it. Cool. Then she had her kids, and has pretty much dropped off the face of the earth, doing only voice acting in a couple of animated films. Now, she’s announced that she is retiring from acting to be a full time mom. The good folks over at WTEV give us this:
Julia Roberts has reportedly made her last movie and will quit acting after appearing on Broadway next year so she can spend time with her baby twins. The Oscar winner recently went back to work for the first time after giving birth to Phinnaeus and Hazel last November, appearing in a music video for rocker Dave Matthews. She has only done voiceover work – for animated movies Charlotte’s Web and Ant Bully – since wrapping 2004 movie Ocean’s Twelve.
Take this news with the grain of salt that we’ve heard other actors announce their “retirement” from acting only to see them pop up again 8 months later. But if this is true… and Julia Roberts is bowing out of the spotlight… then I’d like to say that in an industry that has gotten worse and worse… she’s been one of the few bright spot over the last decade. Hollywood will have just a little less glitter without her.
