Blind Items Revealed
July 12, 2012
No one ever wants to work with this actress twice. Despite her being a very good actress, you would be hard pressed to find anyone who has ever worked with her more than once. Directors? Not if they can help it. Actors? Not a chance unless they are contractually obligated to and even then one actor once went so far as to beg for the chance to get out of his contract before ultimately having to suck it up and film with the actress. Do you remember Meryl Streep's character in Devil Wears Prada? Multiply that by about a factor of ten. During one film which actually was filmed in the south, our actress ran through 25 assistants over the course of the filming. There was no one left to hire in the very small town where they were shooting so they told the actress that her new assistant used to be the assistant to Oprah and jumped at the chance to work for our actress. It wasn't true and in fact, the assistant had been judged incompetent a few weeks earlier, but the actress never even recognized her. You would think she would be one of those people who would say don't look at her, but she is fine with that. She likes to be looked at. She won't look at you or talk to you, but you can look all you want. Did I tell you that our actress is a nominee/winner of an Academy Award. Nothing is ever the fault of our actress. She forgets a line? Her co-star's fault or the director's fault or the lighting was bad or the food was bad or anything else other than she forgot. There is a reason she does not act very often anymore. She has run through all the good directors and with her price tag so high, that is generally who she works with are good people. They would just rather work with anyone else. There have been a couple of people who have called her out. One A list actor who worked with her had a shirt made up which he wore all day that said "I work with a b**ch." He wore it all day and the crew loved it, but the actress never even noticed. The same actor also said you could make him the highest paid actor ever in the history of the world and he would not work with her again. He gave himself an award for working with her.
Julia Roberts
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Is this news? It's known that Julia is a handful to work with. This isn't so much of a blind.
I believe she's a bitch, but there are a few actors who have worked with her more than once.
Jesus I'm shocked! She seems like a sweetie!
@Layna, it was news to me. I thought it was a good blind.
But she did two Ocean's n movies, with a bunch of actors working with her for both, and I think at least two with Tom Hanks, so this seems suspect to me.
I mean, it's clearly pretty easy to find actors and directors who've worked with her more than once.
This BI revealed totally contradicts JR working on the 3 Oceans films, 4 Soderberg movies, and working with George Clooney and Brad Pitt 4 times in total.
Lets make a list of who she has worked with more than once.
Richard Gere (that is who my money is on for the one who tried everything to get out of working with her again but ultimately had to suck it up and do so)
Who else???
Hanks has made 2 movies with her, so, I don't know. Hanks seems like an easy to get along with sort of guy. Maybe he is able to just shut her nastiness out.
Wow! Is this really true? It shouldn't be too hard to find some CDAN readers who know some actual stories to verify/nullify this blind...?
@Nutty: I could have sworn one of the Entys wrote a similar story about Julia a while back, but maybe I'm getting mixed up with another celeb blog. Either way, it's news to me. *shrugs*
And Dolphy is right: The Ocean's movies had the same cast and crew nearly every time.
Imagine the poor tortured husband and children :(
I was trying to say it's NOT news to me.
@Layna Day, I stand corrected. Julia was in only 2 of the 3 Oceans flicks ;)
yes she did the Oceans movies but that was a contract right...could be with hanks too.
I bet Hugh Grant was the A list actor who wore the tshirt.
I thought this was reese
I man I think she's such a horrible actress! Her worst is when she smiles her big goofy smile during a crying scene. Like the scene in Knotting Hill where she says "I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her".
And she's always had a bad rep. I hadn't heard anything about her lately though.
@Dolphy: I covered myself with the nearly every time add, so we're good! :-D
I sat at a table behind her once in Malibu. It was early and not very crowded so you could hear most of the conversation. She started barking out orders in Spanish to an Hispanic busboy. Turns out he was from Pasadena and hadn't understood a word she said so she had to repeat it in English which didn't go over well.
The rest of us had a good laugh anyway.
So she's the reason Soderbergh has decided to semi-retire from making films.
I hope it was Clooney who wore the shirt.
I'm not saying Roberts is a peach in person but...
- Steven Soderbergh directed her in Erin Brokovich. The day after she won her Oscar for that role, she flew out to start filming Ocean's Eleven (she was gushing about Soderbergh in the press room and mentioned this tidbit). And, of course, she also did Ocean's Twelve. Soderbergh had Clooney and Pitt on the marquee, he didn't "need" Julia, so he must have really liked working with her. Oh, and he also directed her in Full Frontal;
- Brad Pitt costarred with her in both of the Ocean's movies and The Mexican;
- Clooney did the Ocean's movies and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind with her;
- Dermot Mulroney did My Best Friend's Wedding with her and they have a new movie, August: Osage County coming out;
- Richard Gere famously did Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride with her;
- Gary Marshall has directed her in three films: the Richard Gere movies and Valentine's Day;
- Clive Owen made both "Closer" and "Duplicity" with Roberts.
- Last but not least, she has twice costarred with Tom Hanks -- Larry Crowne and Charlie Wilson's War.
I get that plenty of successful film "sweethearts" are absolute nightmares, but either the blind has only cherry-picked the worst of her behavior or it was this Enty's first day on the job because that is a LOT of repeat costars and directors.
The blind doesn't say she has never worked with a director or actor more than once, just that it was implied to be rare and they wouldn't work with her if they had a choice. When it happens, it usually is contractually-obliged or such. I assume the Ocean series had most of the cast on contract for sequels.
Yeah but it says unless they are contractually obligated. Those franchise movies get signed on early.
just from the first few lines i guessed Julia. so it really has to be her.
Pip - yeah like Richard Gere, Clooney...
My Best Friend's Wedding was almost 20 years ago, so it's not farfetched that Dermot would give it a try again hoping for the best. Also, Dermot isn't exactly A-list and would probably suck it up to get any job and earn money, especially in a movie that has a higher chance of earning money with Julia's name on it.
Richard Gere first worked with Julia in Pretty Woman when she was a relative newcomer, and it's possible that as a newcomer, she may not have yet been a bitchy diva at that time. Runaway Bride was years later, and maybe by then she developed her attitude after gaining A-list status. Not seeing Richard work with her after.
Julia has been rumored to be a bitch forever. Way back in the 1990s I remember there being a story in which she had to do a a scene in her underwear and she was cold so she insisted the crew had to take off their warm clothes and be cold too. What a shitty thing to demand. She was getting paid millions to do that; the crew wasn't.
I've also heard she's horribly cheap with her money and haggles with cashiers over the price of clothes constantly.
She wasn't in oceans 13, I wonder why?
Soderbergh worked with her a few times. I wonder is she's actually nice to him.
I would also say that the Oceans movies were big ensemble pieces. Its not like a co-star would be stuck with her for days on end.
Mulroney has gone almost 20 years without working with her. The idea of working with Meryl may have outweighed any angst about working with Julia. Plus, its is Oscar bait. Those don't come along all the time.
And in both Tom Hanks movies, Julia was not the star. Tom was the star. Bigger star than Julia so perhaps she's on good behavior?
My father was in a line behind her in a small airport in Montana (Montana was popular in the 90s with a lot of real-estate buying and vacation-minded LA people) and she actually refused to take a belt off for a metal detector, saying "Do you know who I am."
Hmmm. This sounds like some of the stories a certain someone has been posting here, for a while now, about their experience of dealing w Julia...who could it be...?
She is a complete, and total bitch. She wouldn't even answer my questions, and I was trying to hook her up w a charity org, AT HER REQUEST.
I remember that story too Krissie. I think it was in Rolling Stone.
I saw half of an Ocean's movie and Charlie Wilson's War. I don't think I ever saw her in anything else, as she has always annoyed me and I never found her attractive.
I heard that story Krissie. I think that was just more of Julia egging the crew on by telling them to "drop trou." They were game.
Of course, there is always the old "Hook" stories still being told. The way Julia mouthed off to Spielberg of all people until one day when he put her in her place. The crew didn't call her "Tinkerhell" for nothing.
It is well-known amongst her hometown crowd that she is a raging bitch. FYI, she treats her family as crappy as she does strangers.
I'm not sure, but are some directors and actors given contracts with studios? Perhaps someone higher up has decided they need to cast Julia for star power and the director and actors have no choice but to go along with it. It's just a guess. It's amazing how shitty behavior is rewarded, though, and people can continue to be asshats.
Why do so many people come on here to snark about Enty? It's been going on now for quite some time. It's really annoying me. If you don't like Enty and think he's full of crap then go else where.
However, many of us do like him, so that's why we are here.
Enty why don't you remove these snarky comments?
It's her first time working with Meryl, right? Let's hope Meryl put her in her place.
I knew she could be a bitch, but I never knew it was this bad.
Richard Gere actually worked with her twice. What a brave man.
Betty, I believe that the high and noble profession of gossip-hound was once only filled by the elite eldest songs of the wealthiest families in the land, and they approached their task with the highest sense of nobility and purpose. Thus, people are shocked to see someone use the f-word or say mean things. Or something. I'm confused by the complaining, too.
Sons, not songs.
Wasn't there a BI about two stars and the popular guesses were Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts? The guess was Julia was complaining about not having as big a trailer as Meryl Streep.
When will it be known that Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington were hooking up for a while?
@Freya: I think that's pretty common knowledge among people who follow that kind of stuff. Still worth mentioning, though, since they seem perfect for one another.
One good indicator would be if Clooney has ever had Julia out to stay at his Lake Como place. He seems to do that with a lot of the casts in his movies. Anyone remember?
I love this blind! Her new movie is a complete ensemble, with so many great stars that I figure even if she was in it people would line up to be included.
I wonder who the A-list actor is who wore the T-shirt! For some reason I think it's George.
I agree about the recent blind about the trailer could be her.
I don't care, I still love her!
I find this blind to be fascinating, but I do agree that the clues are a bit misleading. So many of you correctly listed the repeat offenders who worked with her. I would love to know who wore the bitch shirt. Hee.
I don't think Julia Roberts is an amazing actress at all. Whenever I see her in a role it's Julia Roberts playing whoever. Whereas if I see Meryl Streep she IS Julia Child or Daniel Day Lewis IS Abraham Lincoln.
The only roles Julia Roberts really OWNED were Pretty Woman and Steel Magnolias, "My colors are blush and bashful." "Your colors are pink and pink." Love Steel Magnolias!
I guess you could say she owned Erin Brokovich, but that just seemed to be role catered to Julia. She did a good job, but I felt like she was just playing a trashier version of herself.
Who thinks she is so good?
And she is a massive bitch.......
Did you ever see her interviewed???? OMG she is so full of herself. What a bore.
The actor may be Nick Nolte for I Love Trouble in 1994. Nolte gave a few interviews afterwards in which he mentioned it was common knowledge that Roberts was a nightmare to work with. Nolte was really sure he would never make another picture with her.
@KatL: I'm having internet issues, but I did a quick search and the first hit is a story about JR and fam going to Lake Como on break from filming Eat, Pray, Love.
So... interpret that however you see fit.
@Angela: Ooh! I'll bet you're right! I remember that catastrophe and I didn't even see the movie. The press for it was awful. Nolte may be a falling down drunk, but maybe that only makes him as bad as her, not worse.
Clooney, Pitt, and now Meryl Streep - I bet she knows who to work with and who to be nice to. I'd guess that if she considers an actor/director to be "below" her, you get the shitty treatment.
Clooney wanted Nicole Kidman on Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, but she turned it down.
Julia Roberts done it because she thought it'd be a hit, she was wrong.
Roberts is known to be a horrible bitch. Remember "A low Vera?"
Spielberg slammed her as a cunt once.
Wonder if Denzel was one of the co-stars that hated her?
She also was in Hook with Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams, and I believe she hasn't worked with either of them since...I bet Williams would put her in her place!
i wont count oceans movies its an ensemble cast i bet they barely even dealt with her . Im sure she knows who to turn it on/off with
i agree pretty woman, steel magnolias..everything else is blah
and the one she was getting her ass whipped
I could also see Matt Damon wearing the "bitch" t-shirt.
She HATES people staring at her.Before the twins birth she had a huge shipfit about someone in the apartment she was staying in looking at her. They lived in the apartment near hers and told her it was because she had food or something stuck to her face but since she'd given them all letters saying they couldn't speak to her ,
they weren't going to tell her.
I knew she was full of herself, but had no idea how bad she was. I've heard that Jude Law was REALLY trying to stay away from her. She thought he ought to be be into her.
George Clooney, Richard Gere, Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta Jones, Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Rupert Everett, Tom Hanks, Dermot Mulroney, Jjoel Schumacher, Garry Marshall, Ryan Murphy, Mike Nichols, and Steven Soderberg have all worked with her more than once. Even though I know she is a complete and utter bitch, this blind is bull.
A director is going to make money off her whether she is the most vile human being or not. I could see some if them signing on again. But remember a leading man probably isn't treated as badly as the "little people" all around her. If Cloony or Pitt or Hanks noticed it and it bothered him good for him. I'm guessing some of them don't though.
Given that her part in the Ocean's movies was small, perhaps she tried to be cooperative. I can picture her wanting to be "friends" with George Clooney, who is probably one of the few she considers worthy enough.
As for the T-shirt, my guess would be Rhys Ifans during Notting Hill. He wouldn't give a damn and would enjoy taking the piss out of her.
I guess she wasn't acting in Larry Crrowne; that was actually her real bitchface/tantrum. No wonder her performance was so convincing.
@S.Breezy Rumored she and Denzel hooked up so lol
Lately, there has been only negativity in the posts, not snark. The old Enty is gone, and a few of those writing as Enty need to get laid(Jax). I believe that is why there are complaints.
Jax left CDAN behind a long time ago. It's hysterical that you're still so hung up on her when she couldn't give two shits about you.
I imagined Clive Owen wearing at that shirt and saying all that stuff. Wow so many contenders for that T shirt. This must make Katherine Heigl feel better.
Right on @moosh
This is the weakness of many lead actors or actresses from the US - they don't know how to escape into their characters or they are so vain they have to look almost the same in every movie unlike actors from other countries who try to be more transformative. Of course it may be that is what is the US audiences demand and get.
I find a lot of this hard to believe. I used to live in Taos, NM and ran into her and her family pretty regularly. She was always so kind and sweet to all of the locals and never came across as the bitch she supposedly is.
This is clearly her entitled ass.
"I find a lot of this hard to believe. I used to live in Taos, NM and ran into her and her family pretty regularly. She was always so kind and sweet to all of the locals and never came across as the bitch she supposedly is."
Look, it's Julia's publicist. Hello, flack!
Has anyone else noticed the growing number of drive-by denials seeking to whitewash away CDAN celebrity slams?
yep me too
I have a friend who lives in New Mexico and who has run into Julia a few times and said she is really nice. I even asked her if she was sure it was Julia because I have only ever heard bad things about her behavior. She still swears Julia was nice. Maybe Julia's bi-polar? She's done some pretty nasty things over the years.
PR trolls everywhere - CDAN, JJ, all of them.
I agree Profane. Sad part is these moneyed twunts have such unimaginative hacks working for them. The repetition of "Everyone in Nashville knows Nicole and Keith are entrenched in wedded bliss" is down right sickening.
First time poster here!
I lived in LA for about 5 years in my 20's (mid-2000's). I worked as a nanny for two families. The mothers were both successful-one a fashion designer (known in LA but not a huge name) and one was an executive at a major studio. They were bad ass chicks. Anyway, the fashion designer told me that Julia's assistant came into her store with some items that Julia bought. She didn't have a receipt or tags. She wanted to return all of the items and told my boss that she paid retail price for them. Well, my boss remembered that Julia bought them when they were on clearance for next to nothing. So Julia totally tried to scam my boss! She was probably pissed that she paid so much for the stuff and it went on clearance for hundreds less than she paid for it. Cheap bitch. I had no idea she was so "creme brule". I though she was more like "Jell-o". :)
Anyway, I really wish I knew more about "blinds" back then. I had some good dirt as I had connections and would run in the same circles as some celebs. Though I would tell my mom and she would send stuff to Ted Casablanca. lol
Just type in Julia Roberts rude in google abd it's obvious she is not very nice 😁
My aunt and uncle live in Montana. They ran into Kiefer and Julia in Whitefish, MT and approached them. KIEFER was the bigger star at the time and incredibly sweet to them. Julia was a raging bitch...
"Well, my boss remembered that Julia bought them when they were on clearance for next to nothing. So Julia totally tried to scam my boss! She was probably pissed that she paid so much for the stuff and it went on clearance for hundreds less than she paid for it. "
Which is it? Sorry but you contradicted yourself. How can she buy them on clearance then be pissed when it goes on clearance?
I agree with others there are too many stories about Julia being a bitch for it not to be true.
Years ago - maybe in the late 90s? - Julia was on the Howard Stern show but it was totally against her will. As I recall, Robin Quivers was at a charity auction that Julia also attended and a dress from "Pretty Woman" was up for bid. I don't remember exactly how it happened but Robin bid on the dress, with the stipulation that Julia would appear on the Stern show to be interviewed. Again, I don't remember the exact details but there was pretty much no way for Julia to back out of the agreement without screwing the charity out of money and looking like a major bitch. So she went on the show and she was absolutely awful. She actually tried to back out but she couldn't. She was a total cold fish. You could tell she was just seething with anger over having to be there. Years later, Howard and Robin were talking about it and they had quite a laugh over the whole thing.
I just googled Julia Roberts rude and there are pages and pages of accounts of her being a raging bitch.
To add on the dirt pile, Roberts was also a heroin user. I remember one of my friends who worked on Pretty Woman sharing that bit.
I knew her all the way back to her high school days. She was an oral expert which I've heard has served her very well in Hollywood. Those oral skills got her back into a lot of roles her bitchiness almost cost her.
No one asked,but u know what i dislike about her and her roles? Its the same thing heigl doed. That whiny bitchy snotty snitty complaining bemoaning demanding yelling annoying obnoxious lame poor me but why isnt my pretty whiny white girl liiife perrrfectt???! Act they both do in all their movies that i cant f_ing STAND.
Robin Williams for the t shirt wearing coworker makes absolute sense.
Kinda makes me happy that she may indeed be a raging bitch. Every movie she's in, the trailers and TV spots must be contractually obligated to use a clip of her awful, awful laugh, because they ALL. DO. IT. When they come on, I can't hit MUTE fast enough! So if she is horrible, my hatred of her laugh (and her, because of the laugh) is justified.
Richard Gere was upfront about not wanting to work with her again, but needed the money.
This is such bullshit.
George Clooney is PRODUCING August Osage County. He is also jointly suing a company with Julia because they used their images without permission and he is one of her kid's godfather. They worked together in Oceans 11, Oceans 12, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and now again on August.
Brad Pitt is PRODUCING The Normal Heart, Julia's next film for her. He asked her to do it, just like he produced Eat Pray Love and asked her to do it and said several time she is like his sister. They worked together on Oceans 11, Oceans 12, The Mexican, Eat Pray Love and again on The Normal Heart.
Clive Owen has said time and time again that he wants to do another movie with Julia. The only reason she did Duplicity is because Clive asked her to. They did Closer and Duplicity together.
She worked with Tom Hanks on the Ant Bully, on Charlie Wilson's War and he asked her to star with him on Larry Crowne (which he wrote, directed, and produced).
She worked with Richard twice, once on Pretty Woman and again on Runaway Bride.
She has worked with director Steven Soderbergh on Oceans 11, Oceans 12, Full Frontal, and Erin Brockovich.
She has worked with director Mike Nichols on Closer and Charlie Wilson's War and he's said several times she is like a daughter to him.
She worked with director Garry Marshall on Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, and Valentine's Day.
She worked with Ryan Murphy on Eat Pray Love and is working with him again on The Normal Heart.
Aaron Eckhart told Larry King (which you can easily find on You Tube) that he loved working with Julia and she's the person he wants to work with the most again
Julia is probably the only actress in Hollywood that Denzel and his wife like. Everybody knows that Denzel doesn't like white people and really doesn't like Hollywood white people but he and his wife adore Julia.
This blind item is bullshit. A simple google or You Tuble search debunks all of this basically.
It don't debunk the fact that Julia is a twat, just that the clues were bad.
Speilberg called her out. BIG TIME! I think this may have been true back in the day. But I think she's mellowed out some/matured over the years.
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