Julia Roberts almost turned down her role in Notting Hill: 'I didn't really know how to handle it' | film

“Honestly, Notting Hill was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. “Playing a movie star was very awkward,” Roberts says. In the 1999 romantic comedy, Julia played a world-famous actress who falls into a Love of bookseller William Thacker, played by Hugh Grant, 63. “I felt it embarrassed To play such a role; “I didn’t really know how to deal with that,” Roberts said.

She also didn't like Anna Scott's clothes. In one of the film's final scenes, in which Roberts declares her love for Grant, the actress wears an outfit from her own wardrobe. “I sent my driver, nice Tommy, to my apartment that morning. I said, 'Go into my bedroom and get this and this and this from my closet.' It was my slippers, my nice blue velvet skirt, a shirt and a cardigan.

In this outfit, Roberts said the memorable line: “I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy and asking him to love her.” A saying repeated to this day by many fans of the film. Julia says she knew it was “an amazing sight.” “But I could never have predicted that it would become the phrase.”