Has Hollywood soured on America's Sweetheart?
Over the years, tawdry tales of Julia Roberts'
diva antics have become the stuff of legend,
generating reams of lurid tabloid fodder.
Here's a rundown of some of the celebs who
allegedly can't stand her.
Steven Spielberg
Roberts was reportedly so irksome while filming
1994's Hook, directed by Steven Spielberg,
that cast and crew nicknamed her "Tinkerhell."
While working on the film, she was embroiled
in a highly-publicized breakup with her then-fiancé
Kiefer Sutherland.
According to Steven Spielberg: A Biography,
Roberts once sashayed onto the set ludicrously
late and totally unapologetic, grandly proclaiming,
"I'm ready now."
Spielberg's response?
"We're ready when I say we're ready, Julia."
She'd reportedly stay locked in her trailer
for hours at a time, one of several quirks
that inspired Spielberg to tell 60 Minutes:
"It was not a great time for Julia and I to
be working together."
When host Ed Bradley asked if Spielberg would
ever work with Roberts again, his response
was a master class in shade:
"This is a 60 Minutes question, isn't it?"
Shortly after the segment aired, Roberts told
Vanity Fair:
"I saw that and my eyes popped out of my head.
I couldn't believe it.
I couldn't believe that this person that I
knew and trusted was actually hesitating to
come to my defense.
It was a hard lesson to learn.
It was the first time that I felt I had a
turncoat in my midst."
Eric Roberts
Siblings will always have their differences,
but not speaking for more than a decade is
especially hardcore.
According to People Magazine, the animosity
between Julia Roberts and her brother Eric
stems from a 1993 custody battle over his
daughter, actress Emma Roberts.
Wary of her brother's drug abuse at the time,
Julia sided with Eric's ex, Kelly Cunningham,
during the dispute.
The decision reportedly earned the Pretty
Woman star ten years of radio silence from
the brother who helped launch her career.
Following the birth of Julia's twins in 2004,
Julia and Eric reportedly had something of
a reconciliation.
Eric told Access Online that there "was never
really a feud" and that the whole thing had
been "blown out of proportion."
In a 2014 interview, he spun another theory
regarding their estrangement, based on the
press constantly referring to her as "Eric's
little sister."
"And one day, she got sick of it and said,
'I don't want to hear his name anymore.'
So I said, 'Ooh, it must be a problem,' So...but
no problem.
Anyway, what else?"
Nick Nolte
Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte clearly didn't
love, or even like, working together during
1994's I Love Trouble.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Roberts
was prone to temper tantrums during production,
while Nolte went out of his way to deliberately
irritate her.
Whenever possible, the two stars reportedly
filmed scenes with stand-ins so that they
wouldn't have to look at each other.
Roberts spoke to The New York Times about
Nolte in 1993, calling him "disgusting" and
saying,
"He's going to hate me for saying this, but
he seems to go out of his way to repel people."
Nolte responded by biting right back,
"It's not nice to call someone 'disgusting.'
But she's not a nice person.
Everyone knows that."
Julianna Margulies
According to The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies,
Julia Roberts can be exceedingly rude to waitstaff.
In 2010, Margulies was on The Late Show with
David Letterman telling a personal anecdote
about when she used to work at a restaurant
where only famous people dined.
One of them was Julia Roberts, and Margulies
described her thus:
"She's lovely…when you're not waiting on
her."
Years later in 2006, the two actresses were
working on plays directly across the street
from each other, and one night, they wound
up going out on the town together.
That's when Margulies confronted Roberts about
the restaurant incident.
Roberts asked if she was horrible back then,
and Margulies replied that she kind of was.
But at least in this case, there appears to
be a happy ending.
As Margulies summed it up,
"We were both 23.
She was a huge star at the time, and there
was 20 people around her.
She admitted it, she was like, 'Oh, I'm so
sorry'…and then she bought me dinner."
But how did Roberts treat the waiter that
time?
Unfortunately for us, Margulies took the high
road and decided not to go there.
Meryl Streep
As the premiere of 2013's August: Osage County
neared, journalists were aswirl with juicy
gossip about an alleged tiff between Julia
Roberts and Meryl Streep.
The overall consensus was that the two actresses
"can't stand each other."
A source told the National Enquirer that Streep
was up in arms after Roberts allegedly tampered
with the film's ending.
The original ending featured a shot of Streep,
but Roberts apparently wasn't having it, allegedly
claiming she looked so sad and that it was
too much of a downer ending.
To be fair, test audiences weren't feeling
the original ending either, and even the author
of the play the film was based on supported
the change.
We may never know for sure how Streep truly
feels about that change, but she was reportedly
a no-show at the premiere at the Toronto International
Film Festival.
According to the Enquirer's source,
"Meryl was livid.
And she never wants to work with Julia again."
If there's any credence to all these other
stories, can you really blame her?
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