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Julia Roberts | SmartLess

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Julia Roberts | SmartLess", an episode of SmartLess published October 13, 2025 (60 min, about 11,626 words). It mentions 80 people, works and ideas, including After the Hunt, SmartLess, Georgia, Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman.

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Hollywood Bowl, SmartLess, SmartLess Live, Atlantic City
  2. – 10:00: Boy Scouts, Georgia, New Mexico
  3. – 15:00: Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd
  4. – 20:00: Georgia, Click Models, Grace Papaya, Home Economics
  5. – 25:00: Crime Story, Mike Douglas, Mike Douglas Show
  6. – 30:00: Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy, Atlantic City
  7. – 35:00: Drink your juice Shelby, Fire Island, Flatliners, Mystic Pizza
  8. – 40:00: George Clooney, 72 Magazine, Brad Pitt, Eat, Pray, Love
  9. – 50:00: After the Hunt, Call Me by Your Name, Cate Blanchett, Conclave
  10. – 55:00: Venice, Venice Film Festival, After the Hunt, George Clooney
  11. – 59:48: After the Hunt, Michael Grant Terry, Mitch Hurwitz, SmartLess

Notable quotes from "Julia Roberts | SmartLess"

  • Going to sit here and do a cold open that's just a shameless plug of Smartless Live at the Hollywood Bowl on November 15th? Sean, get a grip. I'm not going to do it. Tickets are on sale now.
    about SmartLess · at
  • He likes to be as close to Atlantic City as possible.
    about Atlantic City · at
  • She grew up in Georgia playing the clarinet in the school band, which I loved learning about. After graduation, she moved to New York, sold running shoes. Guess what? Chased an acting.
    about Georgia · at
  • Crime Story. M a precursor to Law and Order. Am I being a dummy?
    about Crime Story · at
  • And is I did get nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Mystic Pizza.
    about Mystic Pizza · at
  • Of town when it came out, which is the joke, but I was on location shooting Sleeping with the Enemy and one of my faves.
    about Sleeping with the Enemy · at
  • Cover star of the brand new 72 magazine, which is really cool. And you revealed George Clooney interviewed you and you revealed your dream seven person dinner guest list, which…
    about George Clooney · at
  • The I loved it so much. I love After the Hunt. It's called After the Hunt.
    about After the Hunt · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • George Clooney — Person · 3 mentions · first at
  • Merv Griffin — Person · 2 mentions
  • Eric Eisner — Person · 1 mention · first at
    It's our friend Eric Eisner's charity, the Young Eisner Scholars. It's a really great actually look it up. it's a very worthy cause and they identify.
  • Shawn Levy — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Wait, I got to tell you one thing really quick. Yesterday, we visited Shawn Levy, our friend Shawn Levy on the set of Star Wars.
  • Bradley Cooper — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. well so I did a play with Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd.
  • Paul Rudd — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. well so I did a play with Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd.
  • Mike Douglas — Person · 1 mention · first at
    And paused only to watch the Mike Douglas show and then right back to the chores.
  • Kim Delaney — Person · 1 mention · first at
    And was dating the star of All My Children, Kim Delaney.
  • Dylan Walsh — Person · 1 mention · first at
    He did. And he signed him. And that was Dylan Walsh.
  • Jodie Foster — Person · 1 mention · first at
    And I lost to Jodie Foster for Five Corners.
  • Brad Pitt — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Yeah. and he and Brad were always next to each other and always talking, right? Brad Pitt and his sister.
  • Frances McDormand — Person · 1 mention · first at
    I would marry either Francis McDormand or Kate Blanchett or Oh, nice.
  • Cate Blanchett — Person · 1 mention · first at
    I would marry either Francis McDormand or Kate Blanchett or Oh, nice.
  • Emma Thompson — Person · 1 mention · first at
  • Will Arnett — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Can we just talk about the microphone that Will Arnett has in his apartment?
  • Mitch Hurwitz — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Well, you know Mitch Hurwitz, Julia, I know you know Mitch a little bit and I just spoke to for the first time in a few months two days ago out of the blue.
  • Michael Grant Terry — Person · 1 mention · first at
    Smartless is 100% organic and artisally handcrafted by Rob Armjarf, Bennett Barbco, and Michael Grant Terry.
  • Admiral Ackbar — Person · 1 mention
  • Amanda Anka — Person · 1 mention
  • Coretta Scott King — Person · 1 mention
  • Danny Moder — Person · 1 mention
  • Dennis Farina — Person · 1 mention
  • Jason Bateman — Person · 1 mention
  • Joni Mitchell — Person · 1 mention
  • Luca Guadagnino — Person · 1 mention
  • Martin Scorsese — Person · 1 mention
  • Meryl Streep — Person · 1 mention
  • Michael Mann — Person · 1 mention
  • Richard Gere — Person · 1 mention
  • Sean Hayes — Person · 1 mention
  • Virginia Woolf — Person · 1 mention

Books & papers

  • After the Hunt — Book · 5 mentions · first at
  • Mystic Pizza — Book · 3 mentions · first at
  • Pretty Woman — Book · 3 mentions · first at
    Was there a kind of a life before Pretty Woman and life after Pretty Woman? Is that fair to say? It must have changed your life in a lot of ways.
  • Sleeping with the Enemy — Book · 3 mentions · first at
  • Crime Story — Book · 2 mentions · first at
  • Return of the Jedi — Book · 1 mention · first at
    A line of dialogue from Oh my god, he's making them Return of the Jedi. Yeah, look at that.
  • Pelican Brief — Book · 1 mention · first at
    Make a No, that I learned how to knit from the standby painter on the Pelican brief. Eric Bart taught me how to knit.
  • Five Corners — Book · 1 mention · first at
    And I lost to Jodie Foster for Five Corners.
  • Flatliners — Book · 1 mention · first at
    Then I did Flatliners. Then I did Sleeping with the Enemy. and me and then you know the thing in Steel Magnolia is Scotty's diabetic and when you had that scene Scotty had a.
  • The Mexican — Book · 1 mention · first at
    Yes, we met on a movie called The Mexican.
  • Eat, Pray, Love — Book · 1 mention · first at
    They were all under five for sure and now they're all in college. But there was one time when I was doing Eat, Pray Love.
  • Conclave — Book · 1 mention · first at
    A way that reminded me of And now After the Hunt will be on that list. Doubt. what's the other one? Like Conclave, After the Hunt, like they're all kind of brilliantly made, brilliantly performed.
  • Call Me by Your Name — Book · 1 mention · first at
    Luca Guadanino who is just he's he did Call Me by Your Name. I mean tons of great movies. He is so wonderful as a person and so innovative and the most curious person I've ever met.
  • Runaway Bride — Book · 1 mention · first at
    And somewhere I actually think I have some wedding dresses from Runaway Bride.
  • August: Osage County — Book · 1 mention
  • Doubt — Book · 1 mention
  • Erin Brockovich — Book · 1 mention
  • Steel Magnolias — Book · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

  • Venice Film Festival — Company · 2 mentions · first at
    Oh, I can't wait. By the way, six minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival.
  • Phil Donahue Show — Company · 2 mentions
  • Yes Charity — Company · 1 mention · first at
  • Young Eisner Scholars — Company · 1 mention · first at
    It's our friend Eric Eisner's charity, the Young Eisner Scholars. It's a really great actually look it up. it's a very worthy cause and they identify you know kids from underserved.
  • Boy Scouts — Company · 1 mention · first at
  • Neighborhood Playhouse — Company · 1 mention · first at
    An older brother and sister. They were artists. My sister was going to the neighborhood playhouse at the when I moved to New York.
  • Grace Papaya — Company · 1 mention · first at
    And moved in with her and that's when I was working at the Athletes Foot on 72nd and Broadway right by the Grace Papaya and Popeye's.
  • Click Models — Company · 1 mention · first at
    I did get called in to a couple of agencies and there was an agency called Click Models. God, I completely forgot about this. You have jogged a piece of the puzzle out of my and I did go meet a really nice.
  • Mike Douglas Show — Company · 1 mention · first at
    And paused only to watch the Mike Douglas show and then right back to the chores.
  • Empire Diner — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Mean you I once went into he became my manager. I once went into his office and said, Bob, I was at the Empire Diner today and there's this guy. He was our waiter and he wants to be an actor. And I said, You've got to come meet Bob.
  • USA Today — Company · 1 mention · first at
    Wasn't playing at the Sticky Shoe Theater where I was. And I remember one of the crew guys was reading USA Today and he goes, Hey, hey, your movie's in the paper. And it just…
  • 72 Magazine — Company · 1 mention · first at
    It's amazing. I love that you revealed just in that, you're the first cover star of the brand new 72 magazine, which is really cool. And you revealed George Clooney interviewed…
  • Cannes Film Festival — Company · 1 mention
  • Popeyes — Company · 1 mention
  • The Athlete's Foot — Company · 1 mention

Products & tech

  • SmartLess — Product · 3 mentions · first at
  • SmartLess Live — Product · 2 mentions · first at
    Going to sit here and do a cold open that's just a shameless plug of Smartless Live at the Hollywood Bowl on November 15th? Sean, get a grip. I'm not going to do it. Tickets are on sale now.
  • Viagra — Product · 1 mention · first at
    The people from Viagra called and they're Hey, can we take your blood because we need to know?
  • Drink your juice Shelby — Product · 1 mention · first at
    There's I think a smoothie place or something on Fire Island and they have a smoothie called Drink your juice Shelby All right. Very good. Very good.

Concepts & topics

  • Home Economics — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    1985 I graduated from high school and I probably would have wanted to be a home economics teacher.
  • Independent Spirit Award — Concept · 1 mention · first at
    Way to go Sean. Nice. is there And is I did get nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Mystic Pizza.
  • TAG (Talented and Gifted) — Concept · 1 mention

Places & events

  • Georgia — Place · 3 mentions · first at
  • Hollywood Bowl — Place · 2 mentions · first at
    Oh, you're trying to do like a shameless post thing about the Hollywood Bowl that we're going to be at the Hollywood Bowl on November 15th. Yeah.
  • Atlantic City — Place · 2 mentions · first at
  • New Mexico — Place · 2 mentions · first at
    Her if she was more famous than Taylor Swift. These days, she's happiest at her ranch in New Mexico. You could call her an Oscar winner. You could call her America's…
  • Venice — Place · 2 mentions · first at
    Oh, I can't wait. By the way, six minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival.
  • New York City, New York — Place · 1 mention · first at
  • Fire Island — Place · 1 mention · first at
    I'm with you someone just told me that there's I think a smoothie place or something on Fire Island and they have a smoothie called Drink your juice Shelby All right. Very good. Very good.
  • New Delhi — Place · 1 mention · first at
    Row and I thought, Oh, great. We can, and even if I went as the crow flies from New Delhi to Detroit, right, would we could have hugged and I'd have to turn around like it was so it was 7.
  • Stowe, Vermont — Place · 1 mention

Full transcript with timestamps

All right. So, we're here. Are we cold open? Did you say bowl open? Yeah, I said bowl open.

Oh, you're trying to do like a shameless post thing about the Hollywood Bowl that we're going to be at the Hollywood Bowl

on November 15th. Yeah. On November 15th. Oh, you think that I'm going to sit here and do a cold open that's just a shameless plug of Smartless Live at the Hollywood Bowl on November 15th? Sean, get a grip. I'm not going to do it. Tickets are on sale now. You want me to say that? You want me to say smartlist.com/live? You want me to say that? Sure.

Well, no. I didn't want to. I I wasn't saying you should say it. I'm just saying it's gross. It's gross. I just cuz then I'm sitting here and I'm going Smartlist live at the Hollywood Bowl November 15th. You know, tickets on sale now at smartlist.com/live. Gross, dude. Gross.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Okay, just don't insult me again. Smartless live November 15th. Let's go to the show.

Also, welcome to Smart List. Yeah, obviously that smart less smart. Oh, Willie, where are you?

So, New York City. It's my new place in New York. Yeah. Do you love it? What do you mean? You got you got a place?

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. Where are you? Are you doing press, Willie, for your movie?

No, no, no. I'm just uh not yet. I'm about to, but I'm just getting sort of sorted here in my place.

Sure. You might be seeing a friend. Oh, look. He's got dollar bill. He's got a gambling issue.

I've got a head. He likes to be as close to Atlantic City as possible. Without going.

Uh-huh. Wait, how are you? How is everybody doing? We haven't seen each other in so in like two weeks.

I know. I don't like it. I saw JB last week a couple times. We played golf and then we went went to an event.

We did a little charity work uh together. Oh yeah. Will did some uh some some MCing of a a very special charity event.

The Yes Charity. Yes. What is that about? It's our friend uh Eric Eisner's charity, the Young Eisner Scholars. It's a really great actually look it up. Um it's a very worthy cause and they identify um

you know kids from underserved communities who who are really smart and helps guide

might not otherwise have access to funds for higher education or for secondary education

however you call it. Yeah it's pretty cool. That is nice. I was part of the tag group when I was a kid was called it was stood for talented and gifted and I couldn't do math couldn't do anything. I'd love to I'd love to just kind of just send it out to the group there. Just freestyle on that acronym there.

I know. Will uh want to try a shot at that acronym? I mean, yeah, I do. I mean,

go ahead. Go ahead. No, let's not now. Talent, talented, and gay. Is that what it is?

No. Okay. Oh, you think I'm going to say tight ass gays? To take cheap shots? I'm not Take a cheap shot, dude. I'm not walking into your [ __ ]

Oh, did Will just get a coffee from someone special? I might have. Was that the uh is that the chef that just brought you some um

Today she is. Today she is. You know, everybody is so excited about your new love, Willie.

Wait, I got to tell you one thing really quick. Yesterday, we visited Shawn Levy, our friend Shawn Levy on the set of Star Wars.

Oh my god. Did you guys even get to sleep last night? No, it was incredible. Look,

are you gonna be able to do the show with a boner? You're in hour 19 of that boner.

Your lightsaber. Who needs Viagra? The people from Viagra called and they're like, "Hey, can we take your blood because we need to know?"

Let me see that picture. Let me see that photo again. Well, you can't you can't.

So, listener, this is uh right. This is uh that's the new droid in the new in the new film.

Wow. How do they let you get a picture of that? Well, we went to go to the creature shop and then

and you promised that you wouldn't show anybody and Right. Listen to this. It's a trap. It's a trap.

Remember it's a trap. Scotty, look at Scotty's making Admiral Abar move. Isn't that wild?

No. That's weird that he's remembering a a line of dialogue from Oh my god, he's making them

Return of the Jedi. Yeah, look at that. Oh my god, you guys. That must have been like the best day ever.

It was inc. It was un and Sean Levy of course is the greatest nicest guy. Jay, you Jason, you would do so well at directing one of those movies. I don't know why.

Like one of those. Let him know, Sean. Um, let him know. All right. Thanks, Mom. Um,

I love my mom once said, "You know what? What? You should you should call Steven Spielberg and let him know you'd like to work with them." Let's do it.

What a great idea. I know. I love stuff like that. How come you don't work with better? I remember somebody somebody who who we know who but years ago and and she said that another person we know who is very famous said to her like you know you should work with the greats and the scorses and then she's like oh okay or just give me their number

sign up like why didn't I think of that yeah you're right um listen speaking of one of the greats guys

I love grades my guest today had quite the historic beginning I just wrote this last night

when she was born Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Ketta paid the hospital bill.

What? Didn't know this until I looked it up. She grew up in Georgia playing the clarinet in the school band, which I loved learning about. After graduation, she moved to New York, sold running shoes. Guess what? Chased an acting dream. On a film set 30 years ago, she picked up knitting. Hasn't put the needles down since. Her kids once asked her if she was more famous than Taylor Swift. These days, she's happiest at her ranch in New Mexico. You could call her an Oscar winner. You could call her America's sweetheart. You call her my sweetheart. Today, I'll just call her the brilliant and always Julia Roberts.

Yeah, I got it. Oh my god. Julia Roberts. Hello, Julia. Yellow. That's so cute.

She's wearing a firefighter uh uniform, folks. It's Boy Scouts. Oh, Boy Scouts.

It's Boy Scouts. Oh, it is Boy Scouts. I did a little Roberts. Hi. How cool that you're doing this.

Thank you, Sean, for that for that intro. all my all my research. It was sort of like a high coup about one's grandmother or something. The clarinet, the knitting. I was

wait I didn't know you played the clarinet and the obo. Those are two of the those are the two hardest instruments. I mean,

wait a second. You don't want to get into Martin Luther King paid for the hospital.

I was going to get there, too. I So, let's start with that. Martin Luther King paid the bill. Why? They were friends with your parents.

Yes. and my and I and I not knowing the state of my um family's financial uh situation as a brand newborn baby, I guess they were maybe just going to have to smuggle me out in the middle of the night.

Um well, and so this this made it we could go out the front door. I'm going to uh I'm going to sound dumber than usual. Um what

boy, this is going to be a stretch. Okay, go ahead. What is the bill for having a baby in a like what there isn't that usually

75 right like but isn't it's my new favorite will aret yeah he's slick yeah you've got kids you know this is not these are not cheap endeavors

he's so out of touch sags but the by screen actor's guild insurance but isn't it all paid by the mystery elves that that are insurance isn't that they're the same people that do the laundry, right? Spart.

But you know what's amazing is I am such a Jason Baitman fan and this up close exchange now that we've seen each other in person. We've never really I'm like really just like staring at you right now and you can't even tell. And I'm

I could spend years with you. You're the greatest. Do you know the first Baitman I ever truly loved is your mom.

Oh my mom. your mom. I when I met your mom on a plane, she is just like she's just such a you just she just has sparks that kind of shoot off of she's so beautiful

and so sweet and the accent and the whole thing and just British accent. She nailed it.

Yeah. Um now was she cuz she was a a flight attendant for Panam. Did you meet her on a

plane? I mean that just adds to the allure with the bowler hat and everything. Or was it on set of satisfaction?

It was. Yeah, it was on satisfaction. Yeah. Wait, why was your mom on the set of Satisfaction?

Cuz I guess Justine wasn't yet 18, maybe. Or was she Or was my mom just there visiting maybe? So Julia was in a movie with my sister Justine way back.

It was before we were on location. We were in Los Angeles for a long time cuz I came out to California and I was probably there for like at least three weeks before we went on location cuz we had all that band practice. You see,

boy, so cringey. If only I could have played the clarinet in that movie. Will Will does Will does a great uh uh horn horn player. Eric clarinet.

Eric clarinet. Just making sure the reed is nice and wet. I only do it the theme song of Law and Order.

Oh, right. Then I wet the read as I'm waiting. Flip the page. Scotty does that too all the time. You ever let the spit out at the bottom?

So dumb. Yeah. Careful. Spit valves. All right. So, uh, uh, wait, where were we? So, we were Martin Luther King paid the played the paid the bill. That's just incredible.

Isn't that wild? Incredible. Yeah. Right. And I mean, how how did they know each other, Julia? My parents had a a theater school and um the King kids went to that school.

Oh wow. And then so then my parents became friends with them and that's amazing.

So the King kids wanted to be actors. I I mean I I I think one of them and again this is I'm reaching back into my first days of life but as I recall um I think one of them did have maybe some acting aspirations but it was more than anything I think it was just sort of you know hobbyist after school weekend kind of thing to do

with your kids and um wait so your your parents ran a theater school or like a theater thing. Sean, imagine the stories that the theater can't even Sean is going crazy now.

Oh, he loves a good theater. Sean loves a theater story. Well, now Julia, you've done a lot of great theater. You have any like anybody ever have a heart attack in the crowd? Let's just get right to it.

He usually saves these winners for the end. No. Well, I have an opening night story that is pretty good, but it it's might be long. Maybe it's better. 45 minutes left.

Never too long. Yeah. Um well so I did a play with um Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd.

I saw this one. This one with the rain. The rain. Yes. What a cast. I was there.

Ah there. It did. It rained inside the theater which was um great for everyone but the people in the front row

uh which we discovered they were all kind of being pelted. But like didn't it Julie didn't rain every day someone would go like oh my god I'm wet. It's like, well, yeah, that's the

congrats, you got permission. Well, I don't think you go to the theater thinking that the rain in the show is going to get on you. I wouldn't think that.

No. Right. Um, but you know, we had rehearsed this play as you guys know, it go right it it goes on and on and on forever and then it just you all you want to do is just start the thing. So, opening night comes and nerves are high. just even thinking about it, I'm getting a little short of breath. And uh

your beta blocker. Yeah. So the the play starts, Paul's on stage by himself and um it's his apartment set and there's just this sort of like bare mattress, you know, apartment in New York and he's reading this, he's thumbming through this book and then there's a knock at the door. Open the door and it's his sister played by yours truly, clarinet player. And um I come in and he's what's in his hand is our father's diary that he's just found. And he's been reading it and he's crazed and he's manic over what he's discovered and and he's talking about it and he's talking about it and he and he tosses it on the bed as he has done 9,458 times in rehearsal.

Right. And this book skitters across the mattress, hits the front of the stage and into the aisle.

No way. No way. Which is fine for the next 4 and a half minutes until I say but

and you got to open it. Open it. Look at this. Right. Right. Right. Or Paul says Paul says it. He picks it up.

And so we keep going, but we're looking at each other like this has never happened before. What happens when this happens? Because this has never happened before. Yeah.

Meanwhile, someone working on the show who has seen this happen sort of commando crawls down the aisle and says to the man in the front row, "Sir, you know, pick that up and just put it on the stage." And the man's like, "What? Huh? What?" Paul and I are acting our little hearts out. Pick just just pick it up. Put

Look how excited Sean is. This is one of the greatest. He So the man picks it up and he kind of like doesn't quite know. I mean, I wouldn't want to touch a prop or, you know, and he puts it on the stage at the exact, you couldn't have planned it better, at the exact moment that Paul goes,

"No, I'll read it to you." And he picks it up. Ah, that's great. At the second, and then Paul being the amazing human being that he is.

Yeah. Just turns and looks at the man, he goes, "Thank you." And everybody in the audience, you could just feel everybody just let out their breath that we didn't realize we were holding. and we sort of went on for there.

This is the magic of theater, you know. Um, I want to get back to the beginning, Julia, because I I did all this research and it was I, you know, you think you know somebody and then you actually do read about them. You're like, oh, I didn't know.

And then you realize, wow, nothing that I've read is actually factual. We know. So, wait. So, when you were a kid, you wanted So, you played the clarinet. We covered that. You You were a vet. You sold shoes.

We really haven't covered that. I'm going to double back on. I was a doctor. Did you hear? He goes, "You were a vet and you sold shoes."

No, you wanted to be a vet, a veterinarian, a pet vet. I didn't know that. That's okay.

Wait, how old were you before the vet thing went away? Cuz doesn't Every every kid wants to be a vet.

Everybody does. I was in the 4 club. I mean, like I I thought this was great. And it wasn't until I discovered

that I don't really have a mind for science. Right. Right. Right. Yeah. I just wanted to do the petting and the, you know, I could take out a toothbrush and put some mange medicine on if necessary, but I didn't want to do surgeries.

What was the most involved thing you've ever done with an animal? Like, have you have you milked a cow? Have you changed horseshoes?

I've milked a cow. I've I have not changed a I've I've watched the frier do it, but I've not done it myself.

A frier. See, I would lose that on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? I wouldn't know what that means. You could call me.

I could call you. You would know. Oh my god. She'd be your security caller. Whenever you

I'd like to call you Robert. Yeah, exactly. That'd be so good. Well, how well then when did the acting when you say, "Yeah, no, screw veterinarian. I want to be an actor."

I mean, I don't know that I had that kind of moment where I thought this is the path I want my life to take. I mean, my parents were artists. I have an older brother and sister. They were they were artists. My my sister was going to the neighborhood playhouse at the when I moved to New York.

Um, and moved in with her and that's when I was working at the Athletes Foot on 72nd and Broadway right by the Grace Papaya and Popeye's.

No way. That's great. Um, and uh, and I worked there for a while. And I think it was just realizing that college was not going to be in the cards for me. And I didn't really know what I didn't know what I was going to do. I mean, I had moved to New York really just because I wanted to be back with my sister because she had been gone for two years and we were so close and I missed her and I

gone from Georgia. Yeah. Yeah. But you were like you you were thinking what? that you were just going to go to New York and something was gonna something different was gonna happen.

I don't want to embarrass you, but I was was modeling a poll at all. I did get called in to a couple of agencies and there was an agency called Click Models. God, I completely forgot about this. You have jogged a piece of the puzzle out of my um

and uh and I did go meet a really nice woman there and Flick and Click, wasn't it? Flick and Click. I I don't think so.

No, that doesn't sound good at all. I think that's something else. Yeah. No, no, no. I I I think it was. I I actually think it was. I

No, it was click click modeling. Click like a camera click. There's no flicking.

Click and flick. So, it was I swear to God. Anyway, um I think that's a massage. Okay. So, so wait, so so Julia, but but really to answer the question, you weren't like, "Okay, I'm leaving Georgia now. I'm going to be an actor, so I'm moving to New York." you were going cuz your sister was there and you just thought

but Eric had already been working. No, he's 11 years older than I am. So, he was he was he had a career.

Yeah. By the time I graduated from high school. But to answer your question, everybody was sort of leaving home to go to school

and I did not want to be like, okay, I'll see you guys when you get back. I'll be

right right here in my mom's apartment. Nobody worry. What about college? You said college wasn't a thing for you. I was at cuz it wasn't for me. I

it it wasn't financially feasible and I certainly didn't have the grades for any kind of a scholarship and

should have called the King family. I'd relied on them once already. I I I just felt like they they I didn't want them to have to support me the whole way around.

Yeah. Yeah. And were were you to study something in college at that age had the the the vet the veterary thing had gone had passed?

Had gone. Right. I think I probably would at that time because you have to remember this is

1985 I graduated from high school and I probably would have wanted to be a home economics teacher.

Oh wow. Something I'm happy to bring back into the school system now if asked. What's a home What does that mean? Home economics.

What does that mean? Professor so many things. I'm glad you asked. Yeah. Like Oh, here we go. Here we go. Well, I'm an idiot. I don't know what that is.

No, it's it was such a great class because it covered it was like Yeah. sewing, but it was like sewing, mending. It was practical things. You learn how to write a check. You learn how to sew on a button. You learn how to iron a shirt. You learn

is that where you learn knitting? Make a No, that I learned I learned how to knit from the standby painter on the Pelican brief. Eric Bart taught me how to knit.

Wow. The standby painter. Yeah. They got a lot of kit stuff right there. Um, wait. Um,

right at your disposal. You know. Oh, yeah. They got that that that bucket they sit on. It's got a bunch of stuff in there.

Yeah. We'll be right back. And now back to the show. Hey. Um, I feel like I'm not a great parent for many reasons. One of them is that I haven't taught my kids how to iron, how to wash a window without getting streaks on it, how like my parents, like I had 20 chores every weekend until the day I moved out when I was 18.

Have you been good about teaching your kids? Like, do they know how to like iron a shirt without wrinkling the fabric that's underneath it? how to separate it over an ironing board and put the sleeve over the little the little wedge portion of the board and like all that stuff. Like you don't know it till you know it.

You don't know it till you know it. Well, I would say there's a yes and a no here because I feel like a lot of the things that I learned from my mom I either learned because like you long list of chores that started

right when I got home from school Yeah. and paused only to watch the Mike Douglas show and then right back to the chores. Um,

Mike Douglas, I love it. Yeah. Phil Donahghue. Yeah. I mean, JB, were you ever on the Mike D show?

No. No. I I got bumped a couple times, but uh No, I'm kidding. Did you? Um, no. You couldn't possibly even in your

I did do MV Griffin. I did Oprah. Um, what else? Bunch of Phil. Never Phil Donahghue.

You know what? I I slept with this guy. Uhoh. In Chicago named Phil Donahghue. No.

What a what a headline this is going to be. Sean Haye slept with Phil Donahue. Not the Phil Donahue. A Phil Donah.

Don't tell his wife Philip Donahue. No, I just slept with a guy once in Chicago and then he ended up on the Phil Donahghue show because he was the Chicago He was the Chicago weatherman that then did porn. It was so crazy and my family.

Wow. You just said so many things in one sentence. I know. Isn't that crazy? I slept with him once

and I remember his name and he was a Chicago weatherman on the TV and then I then one day he was on Phil Donahghue cuz he left that career and was a porn star. I was like what? It was the craziest thing.

So that Wait, you had no you had no warning on this. You were just watching your Donna like you do every day.

Yep. That's it. There he is. Wow. And there's your guy and he's on there because uh it was like a porn story that had gone wrong. That that's

No, it was No, it was No, it was in America was like, "Wow, there's a gay person on television." Yeah,

that's it. Yeah, that was way before. Oh, Shnie. Anyway, let's get back to you.

Let's get back. You know what I want to get everybody take a quick shower. So, Julia, what I what I don't know, and maybe Wikipedia can answer this, but I'd love to hear from you. What was the first what was your first professional acting gig?

Yeah. Crime Story. M a precursor to uh Law and Order. Am I being a dummy? Dennis Fina, 1950s Michael Man TV show in Las Vegas.

Dennis Fina, the nicest man you could imagine. The great Dennis Fina. Um, and what was your what was your character? Were you were you uh were you a damsel in distress or were you a bad

I was a 15-year-old girl living with my mother played by Hannah Cox and her I feel like kind of newish husband and he was maybe not being a good stepfather to me.

No, Julia, if you catch my Yeah. Uhhuh. Yeah. Catching your I'm really bringing the mood down with this. This is no weather weatherman turned porn star story but um

yeah so did that and that was um a great experience and you know but um were you were living in New York at the time you got cast out in New York?

Yes. Okay. So it's a big it was a big m it was exciting at the time obviously. Yes. Oh it was huge. It was it was huge. So then you were able to sort of start your work and start to gain momentum before

there was huge pressure on you to sort of pay a lot of rent and to really like declare this is what my career is going to be. So you were still young enough to kind of like dip your toe in it and see if you get any traction. Is that kind of how it things started?

That sounds nice the way you put all that. Let's drop that down. Well, you know what it is too?

He likes to bundle. He's bundling. I met I just to say I met there was an agent. I was with my brother and his girlfriend coming from dinner one night and and you know they lived uptown and so they sort of ran into some people they knew and one of uh one of the women they were chatting with was a talent agent and she I don't know if she called my brother later or his girlfriend or something and said oh you know does she act or and she called me into her office and uh and after a nice conversation, she said, "Well, I can't do anything for you but

I know someone who who might be able to, you know, guide you here." And she sent me to meet this man called Bob McGawan who

uh was from Atlantic City and was dating the star of All My Children, Kim Delaney.

Yes, I know. And he was just this he seemed to me to be the nicest, most energetic guy with time and money to spare and he loved helping young people realize their dreams. I mean you I once went into he became my manager. I once went into his office and said, "Bob, I was at the Empire Diner today and there's this guy. He was our waiter and he wants to be an actor." And I said, "You've got to come meet Bob."

No way. He did. And he signed him. And that was Dylan Walsh. Oh my god. Wow. So Bob was just this kind of incredible man who just loved

being the facilitator, you know, he just loved putting people together and um and that was kind of

a nice early advocate. And you stayed with him for a while. Yes. Yeah. And then what was the then the project that gave you the kind of momentum that would uh push you into um sort of like well I I I need not pursue other things. I think this might work out for at least a few years.

Mystic Pizza. Yeah. Ah yeah. Didn't you get did you get nominated for that or no?

No. Okay. Way to go Sean. Nice. You know, is there And is I did get nominated for Independent Spirit Award for Mystic Pizza.

That's what you're thinking of, Sean. And I lost to Jodie Foster for Five Corners.

All right. Julia, was there was there again I say this a lot, but at risk of embarrassing you. Was there

sort of Mystic Pizza, you know, crime story, then Mystic Pizza and everything. Was there a kind of a life before Pretty Woman and life after Pretty Woman? Is that fair to say? It must have changed your life in a lot of ways.

Well, I you know, I kind of it was a joke to start with, but it's actually completely true. When people say, "Oh, you know, when Pretty Woman came out, did it did it just completely change your life?" And I said, "Well, I was out of town when it came out, which is the joke, but I was on location shooting Sleeping with the Enemy and one of my faves.

Tiny little town. Thank you." And it it wasn't playing at the Sticky Shoe Theater where I was. And I remember one of the crew guys was reading USA Today and he goes, "Hey, hey, your movie's in the paper." And it just kind of said like, you know, box office. There was like a little square and it said Pretty Woman and it said what the box office was. Number meant nothing to me. I was like "Hey."

Yeah. Great. I mean, I didn't know if it was a great number, if it was a good number, if it was like,

"Wow." Um, and uh, yeah. So, in a way, it it the the momentum of that moment passed me by a little bit. So, I think I was probably spared. Well, you're also in work mode and that helps as a distraction to that kind of stuff, right? Do you do you do you long for those days of sort of the

the naivee and sort of just like just just kind of just doing the work and having the fun and playing makeelieve and and and not being aware of uh sort of the minations of this interesting business? Um or or or you or or do you do you like how complicated this business is?

Is it complicated? Well, in in c in certain areas in the areas that are completely unpredictable and without any sort of

meritocracy, I guess I just feel like it's there's so much more um choice than we allow ourselves to believe. Like I can choose to get super caught up in some of the

things that really we have no control over. Mhm. Um I have long given up reading anything.

Yeah. And and all I don't know. I don't know. You still just love doing it for what you're doing, right? I mean,

it's so fun. I love it so much. It's such a goofy little job. And I have a Google News alert on you. Just don't worry. So, I'm reading all your stuff for you and you're you're doing you're fine.

I'm listening and I'm reading and wait. So when Steel So I So you were filming Sleeping with the Enemy before Steel Magnolia.

No, Steel Magnolia was first. So I filmed Steel Magnolia's. I filmed Mystic Pizza and then I

Don't you have my IMDb help? I know. But I did Mystic Pizza, then I did um Steel Magnolia's.

Yeah. Then I did Pretty Woman. Yeah. Then I did Flatliners. Then I did Sleeping with the Enemy. and me and then you know you know the thing in Steel Magnolia is um Scotty's diabetic and when you had that scene Scotty had a scene like that

in real life and uh I had I'd only watch Steel Magnolia like for the first time like

seven eight years ago crazy what no saved his life thanks for the support oh my god I've seen Sleeping with the Enemy like 17 times um but um I have I've seen it a billion times but um no the um but that scene was so real

Scotty's flatlining go ahead Yeah, that seemed so real when you had the diabetic thing and and when he was when we first started dating, we've been together almost 20 years and he would be he would do

Let's go on to the next question. Good lord. I feel like you're circling the airport. You're about to take the landing.

Can I tell you cuz you said has any has anything crazy ever happened during a play? But during screening of Steel Magnolia's there were a lot of reports of people having sort of like physical responses

reactions to Yeah. to that people who are predisposed to to these outbursts these conditions.

Julia, I'm going to tell you I'm I'm going to tell you a true story. Truer than than Sean and Scotty I guess flatlining watching Steelman. I don't know what happened but

no no no he he almost died and it was but he was going into that kind of shaking kind of thing and he

here we come the landing gear's down I think it's fine it was amazing an amazing performance and how true to life that actually I'm with you someone just told me that there's I think a smoothie place or something on Fire Island and they have a smoothie called um Drink your juice Shelby

Ah All right. Very good. Very good. I'm going to say I'm going to say will any fire island smoothie jokes.

I do. Hey Jason, I just like to tee him up, you know. I'm going to say December 1991.

Thank you Maryl. I'm in Stow. Maryl Henner Vermont with you. Skiing skiing with my dad and my brother.

I went to Vermont and I saw you having breakfast in this little breakfast place. I just remembered that. I haven't thought about this in years.

And you were with a bunch of people and you were having breakfast and uh Yeah. What did I eat?

Not for nothing. Wow. And mine was bad. Yeah. Well, just Mine was short. Great stories. Mine was short.

Okay. Well, yeah. And I was only there one time. Stove. There the one time you were in Sto.

There you go. Um, can we talk about I think as I mean your career is just incredible and enormous and something we

I want to talk to the extent you're comfortable I think one of the greatest things in your life

is your marriage like it's been like forever and that's not common and this guy is like a great guy incredibly talented I I'm like I really dork out over cinematographers um Can you would you are you comfortable talking about like is there is there is there a key? Is there a secret? I mean this is like a great success story

and and how you met Danny Motor everybody. Danny Motor um well first let me just say this is that he I mean I really like your podcast. He loves this podcast. And I was trying

to be on it without telling him so that he would just like be tuning in and all of a sudden really

there's this old lady's voice but it didn't he saw my agenda book and he was like smart. I love that. I remember seeing you um at at a charity event and you were with Danny and you just looked at him and you go and you looked at me and you go isn't he the best? I just love him. And it was so sweet. I just thought that was the sweetest you Julia what's what's the secret?

I know I'm getting all sweaty. Um, you know, I it's really buddies. Yeah. Well, he's my best friend.

Yeah, there you go. And but also the only person I want to make out with. So, I think it's that combination of things is

Amen. Yeah. But you know what? Here's the thing. Cuz you just don't know. You never want to give all the credit away to one person and say, "I owe it all to this one person." But honestly,

this is the section about Kevin Huane. Here we go. I wanted to talk about Danny for for Tracy. He's an agent. He's a big agent in Hollywood. 25 years later, I I mean, I just think gosh, my life could have gone off the rails a hundred different ways in the last 25 years were it not for

finding my person. I I don't know how I don't know what small nation of people I saved in a former life or

I I feel the same way. Yeah. Did you were did you guys work on a project together? Is that how you met? Yes, we met on a movie called The Mexican.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Good looking movie. Yeah. And he was uh he was on that movie and I they had been shooting for about 3 weeks and he god what was he? He he was the focus puller on that movie.

Yeah. and he and Brad were always next to each other and always talking, right? Brad Pitt and his sister.

So, I come in and and I'm like the new one and I I'm like, you know, you know, they're talking about I don't know, a new, you know, record that's come out or something. I'm like, "Oh, I I love that. I

trying to jump in there. I love that band." Oh, yeah. I kind of start humming it and be like, "Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I know. And they're just like so locked into each other. I was just looking for a way. And the conversation um

and not realizing that one day this man that I was just trying to have a conversation with would be my husband.

Wow. That's so cute. And then you finally then you finally had a conversation. We had a conversation and he has not gotten me to shut up in 25 years.

I love that. I love that. The fact that you're able to to schedule and work out all these kind of You go away, he goes away. Let's meet up every couple of weeks. Like, it's got to be just so difficult. I know. High class problems. Listen, I I apologize.

These are high class problems. But you want to know something? We have in all these years and we have three um awesome kids

and only one time in our lives and the kids were probably they were all under five for sure and now they're all in college. But

there was one time when I was doing Eat, Pray Love. Mhm. And Danny was shooting a movie in Detroit.

And we were about So you were in India, right? For seven weeks. Oh, wow. That's long.

And I mean, I was lucky cuz I at least had the kids with me. But he and there was just no way. Even one time I did have three days off in a row and I thought, "Oh, great. We can, you know, and even if I went as the crow flies from New Delhi

to Detroit, right, would we could have hugged and I'd have to turn around like it was so it was 7 weeks and when he

finished and he came and joined us and never again, we were just like, "Wow, that

that will never work." All right. You said the kids are in college now. How recent uh have you become an empty neester?

Uh it's been two and a half weeks. Oh my god. Okay. So, I just I my just sent my first one away, but it was just down the street to USC. So, I'm I'm I'm happy about that. But I I'm I'm not anticipating doing well when the 13-year-old goes away in 5 years. Uh and being empty empty. How are you doing?

Yes. But you and your wife are crazy about each other, so it's all going to be okay. I think it's when the kids leave and you turn around and you're like,

"Ew, who are What are you still doing here? Yeah, that's when you run into troubles.

You were supposed to go, too. Yeah. Yeah. Like, are you still here? It's amazing. I love that you revealed just in that, you know, you're the first cover star of the brand new 72 magazine, which is really cool. And you and you revealed George Clooney interviewed you and you revealed your dream seven person dinner guest list, which I love. And the first person you named was Danny, which was great.

Oh, that's good. And um and Jesus and Virginia Wolf and Joanie Mitchell. It was a great list. I loved it.

Yeah. I mean, it's so funny because whenever someone asks you a question like that and and you have to, you know, rapid fire answer and you feel like and then afterwards you go like, "Oh, that'd be a good dinner party." And then of course for the rest of the day it's like, "Oh, but what it should have been this person and what about that person?"

Yeah. Yeah. Um but I think I did I think I I mean, wouldn't it Jesus coming to dinner?

Yeah. I'm just trying to think what would I ask him? What What would I ask him today? you know, like last year or something.

Yeah. George would be a good guest at that, right? George Clooney. Yeah. Guy can talk.

Yeah. Very good storyteller. Great storyteller. Yeah. He told us that classic about crapping in the catbox.

Oh my. It's It's one of the greatest stories of all time. Yeah. Yeah. That is And I hadn't heard it until he came out of the pocket. It was great. And

even better than hearing George tell it is Richard telling it because the voice Richard's voice is so

Oh, yeah. He's great. I love that guy. And we will be right back. And now back to the show.

Wait, so I read that you saved a seven-page love letter from Danny to someday show your kids. And have you showed your kids? I that's the first letter he ever wrote me. But I have all the letters and in fact someone gave us a great present many years ago. These two beautiful sort of ceramic earthen pots

and the lid on one pot inside is painted um love letters to Julia from Danny and the other one is to Danny from Julia. And so there's all these like just shoving stuff in there for years. There's just no telling what's at the bottom of these jars,

right? Um, but yeah, we are uh we're big on paper in our house and our our kids are now, too. So, it's nice to like I opened a book the other day. There was a post from my oldest son in the handwriting of maybe like a seven-year-old,

which is not too dissimilar from his handwriting now, but I could see the time and it just said,

"Mom, I'm so so so so so sorry. Oh, what did I do?" And I thought, "Oh, I wish I had written on the other side of the postit like what the

what the what the grievance was." Um, other than your wedding day and the birth of your gorgeous children, if you could pick one year to relive, what would it be? Because it was so great.

Because it was so great. Yeah. I love that. Somebody just asked me that the other day.

Sean's coming with a class. I a whole year or a day or is or is there one day? Don't back off. Don't back off, Sean.

Yeah. No, mine mine was um mine was any day any year in college. I just loved my college life. I loved it.

Oh, I'd love to see that. Wow. I was a crazy person. It was great. You know, I I I don't know. I'm just thinking any year that I c that I could go back and spend with before my father passed away. He passed away when I was young. And so I feel like Even though I don't kind of say, "Oh, this was a great year and I want to relive that year." Just to have any year with the knowledge that this is special cuz it's not going to last.

Was he the one that was running the the theater school? Was it your dad and your mom together?

It was my dad and my mom together, but I think my dad was was the was the captain.

Was he alive long enough to start to uh experience some of your um your momentum?

No, I was a child. Okay. Very young. He would have loved it. Yeah. Did that Did that I mean, well, that's just a dumb question, but like what did you how did you work?

How did that affect my life? How is this holding you back? How does this hold you back now? Like,

no, cuz my dad I mean, I guess I haven't thought about it either. My dad left. Well,

my dad left when he I was like five or six. He did? How? He just lit out the door.

He did with the keys or Yeah, but I surely he came back. You guys are are cruel.

Was there a vehicle involved? We got to have one of those things like stern with the little sound things. Just a screeching tires. Anytime his parents

Oh, you're right. We do. We need Fred here to do that. No, but there was there was something like with the fact that I think growing up

abandonment can be funny. Yeah. Well, it has to be a good story. If you didn't laugh, you'd cry. I think that that's the kind of, you know,

Yeah. I mean, my mom had Alzheimer's, too, which is once you I cried. So, she doesn't remember him leaving.

Oh my god, you guys. That's the good news. I cannot play like this. We find the good in everything.

You have to love this. This is how we love. And also, but if I didn't if I didn't make jokes or laugh about I cried for three years straight about my mom having Alzheimer's. She's passed away since then. I cried and cried and cried and tried to take care of her and every one of our family members tried to take care of and then after a while you're just you have to have some levity. So anyways, one time I was she was at this this um memory care place and there was a band there live band and I was sitting with Scotty and his mom and we

What a gig. Yeah. And um was one of the top band people who won't remember you. They're like, "Should we play some of the old hits?" Doesn't matter. They don't know. It's new to them. Everything's new to them.

You could You could play a Beatle song and just say, "We just wrote this." That's what I say.

That's what I'm saying. That's why you have to make light of it because otherwise you'll die crying.

Okay. So, so anyway, call this one satisfaction. I just wrote it in the car here.

So, we're sitting there and my I'm sitting there with Scotty and Scotty's mom and all of a sudden Scotty's mom, who's one of the sweetest people in the world, she gets up and starts dancing. She says to my mom, Mary, she's like, "Mary, come on and dance." And she's like, "Yeah." And she's like, "She's going to get up and she grab tried to grab me and she goes, "Sean, come on. Let's dance." I go, "Mom, I don't want to dance. There's all these people watching in this room and and there's a dance floor." And I'm like, "No, mom. I don't want to watch. She goes, "Come on, let's stand." I go, "No, mom. I don't want." She goes, "Don't be such a pussy."

And I was like, "What?" She would have never said that. Did you die laughing though?

Oh my god. I laughed. Did you dance? No. I was too embarrassed. I know. I wish I could now. Blah blah blah.

So anyway, no, she was sweet though. But anyway, you and Tracy must have laughed that one over.

Oh my god. So my whole family, we we obviously loved her so much. But anyway, so this is a good one. I wrote down because somebody asked me this the other day. If you had to mar, this is for everybody. Julia, if you had to marry a woman, guys, if you had to marry a guy, me, if I had to marry a woman, who would it be? Mine would be Carrie or Raina or Ally or Jen or Amanda.

I would I would marry Jason's wife, Amanda. If you had to marry a girl, that's a lot of people. And I didn't even like make the top 10.

And hang on, I'm not done. Julia. Okay, there you go. I would I would marry either Francis McDormand or

Kate Blanchett or Oh, nice. Emma Thompson. Nice. Wow, those are good answers. Those are pretty good.

There's more, but I'm limiting myself to three. Yeah, guys, you had to marry. I would marry one of these two guys because of the formula you were talking about before, which is you got to marry a friend if you want it to last. I I've always I've always thought and so far I'm right cuz I I do I do really like that. Amanda,

I'd marry I' I'd same thing. I'd marry one of these two guys because they're guys that that I love and that I like. And Jason, we'd be able to share golf clubs

and because we have like I I tried his wedge the other day is great. And also Jason because I'd love to marry a known bottom. Um, and then

you don't want to have to do any fighting, right? No negotiating, right? Too bad.

And uh, no, I truly truly I I would be one of these two guys. I love these guys so much. And

I love you guys, too. I want to hear about your new your new thingy Julia. So, I just watched it last night. I want I couldn't wait. You know, they're locked. They're locked, Sean. So, watch the

I loved it so much. I love After the Hunt. It's called After the Hunt. I just watched last night. What an awesome dark, complicated character you're playing. As always, I believed every moment, every word coming out of your mouth. Yeah,

it was um and and it was crafted in such a way that reminded me of And now After the Hunt will be on that list. Doubt. Um what's the other one? Like Conclave, After the Hunt, like they're all kind of brilliantly made, brilliantly performed. Your performance was incredible and the end I was like cuz the whole time I'm like what's going on? What is happening? And then the reveal was so cool. I mean crazy but cool.

Yeah. Anyway, thanks for coming. Love to you must be proud of it. It sounds like it sounds like a pretty highlevel.

What drew you to the material? Luca Guadanino who is just he's he did Call Me by Your Name. I mean tons of great movies. He is so wonderful as a person and so innovative and

the most curious person I've ever met. He's so curious about people and why we do the things we do and why we don't do things and and just every detail of every everything. He is. There's nothing that you're seeing that hasn't been specifically chosen in this shade of color and this statue and this painting being slightly a skew or you know whatever. I mean it's just really it's

there's a really cool moment too when you guys you and um oh forgive me I right

Io I debris so sorry. So when you and I I are are it's kind of towards the end and you're have this incredible scene outside of this building and and it starts this like regular over the shoulder and then it just cuts to you guys looking right into the C. I love that. It was so effective

as you're finishing this argument just right into the camera cutting back and forth directly. It was really cool.

Oh, I can't wait. By the way, six minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. When people tried to sit down, I was like, "Oh, no. Yeah. No, no sing.

Don't be rude. I just loved it. Yeah. Oh, I'm glad. Thank you. I'm glad you got to see it.

Luca just texted me. How crazy. Wow. Tell him he's doing well. He must have felt us talking about it.

Is it Is it nice to launch a film at a at a festival like that as opposed to um just sort of a a standard kind of release where it just kind of comes out? I've never really had an experience like this before. So, it's nice to do new things, you know, especially this.

What do you mean? What do you mean you haven't had an experience? Well, I mean, I've never been to the Venice Film Festival for one thing. And um

I mean, I guess George and I went to Can a few years ago, but that was the first time I'd ever been to Can.

Yeah. Oh, wow. Um because on television, they all look so terrifying. Like, why would you want to put yourself there.

Yeah, I agree. You know, so if people say, "Oh, do you want to go to can?" No, thank you.

Off off season. Yeah. It just looks so terrifying. People screaming and But what about all the What about all the glam and festivities of it all? Is that is that appealing in the just in the slightest playing dress up and all that stuff?

Once you say yes, like once you commit to it, then you have to have a a sporting event mentality about it. You have to you're going to have a great time. Um Danny had on a tuxedo. I was just

It was great. That that part was great. Um one final question before we let you go because we've taken up way too much of your time. What is the coolest or weirdest or amazing piece of memorabilia from any film? Have you kept anything that you love?

That's a good question. That is a good question cuz they're also there so many iconic films. I try. I try.

Not contaminated soil from Aaron Brochovich. Surely, but no water samples. No. Um,

okay. But I haven't done anything cool like like a or like a or a costume or like a shirt or any any

I have a lot of costumes. I have a lot of costumes. Yeah. Um, and somewhere I actually think I have some wedding dresses from Runaway Bride. Oh wow. Wow.

Yeah. Do you have Do you have a place to keep them? Like I mean like a separate from your house.

It's probably dangerously just in the garage in New Mexico and maybe there's just generations of mice that have made homes now that they're trying it on. They're trying

boxes. Um yeah, but not really. more like I have a beautiful um drawing that Merryill Streep did for me of my character uh that she gave me as a rap gift from um August Oage County like

Oh, I love that movie. That movie is so good. Some things like that. I love that. What a fish that movie.

Yeah. Eat your fish, [ __ ] George Clooney produced that movie. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's great.

Mhm. Yeah. It's very good. Okay, so it premieres. So, it's called After the Hunt. premieres. Wait, select theaters October 10th and wider October 17th.

It's so good. I mean, I just loved it. I loved it so much. Thank you, Julia. You're the greatest. Yeah,

you guys are so fun. I honestly I This is just zipped by and I It was quick, right? I

I just want I want a chance to do it again and and be quick and witty and and you were sublime one of the one of the dudes.

No, you are. You were. You are amazing. Come back anytime you want. Can we just talk about the microphone that Will Arnett has in his apartment?

Yeah. What is up with that? It's It's janky right now. I'm I'm in a very I'm in a makeshift situation. Uh cuz I just moved in here yesterday.

Yo, let's get the whisper booth all set up. Huh? I know. I know. I know. It's It's not Nothing's great. The internet's not great. I got the windows open cuz the AC is broken. I got a guy here. It's

You got a real vital VO career. You got a real Don't we get to see Oh. Oh, those chairs are nice.

Do we get to see your your guest star? Yeah. Where's your babe? Let's pull your babe in real quick.

She just went out. She just went out. She just Oh, sure. She just went out. She just left.

I think it's all fake. I think what you guys Yeah. It's like a It's a fake media story.

No, we're thrilled for you. Well, yeah, we thrilled, Julia. You're incredible. Thank you for saying yes to this. Talk about a thrill.

Come back anytime you want, Mrs. Oh, thanks. Thank you. It goes without saying I've been such a fan of yours for so long. So great at what you do.

Yes. Thank you. Truly. Thank you. And can I just say and sorry to leave you out, Sean, because I am your guest and I appreciate you so much.

That's okay. Likewise. But Arrested Development, Danny and I ate that show up like ice cream. And I'm happy to report that our youngest son, who's 18, just started college. Episode one pilot. We just started all over again. Me and him together. We are.

Wait. Can you invite me over? Because I haven't seen them since then and I want to watch them all again. And I my my kids won't watch anything I do.

Come over. We'll we'll go back to the pilot. We will back this right up. Jason and I haven't watched We We used to watch when it first came on the air. I'd come over Sundays. We'd watch football together and we'd watch the episodes as it aired. We were like, "Wow, this is so crazy."

Yeah. And then we'd wake up in the morning and we'd call in for the overnights.

Yeah. It is. It is waiting to be the how much is going on all the time is it's extraordinary. It is.

Well, you know Mitch Hurwitz, Julia, I know you know Mitch a little bit and uh I just spoke to for the first time in a few months two days ago out of the blue.

How's he doing? He's doing okay. Yeah, he you know he's the funniest guy. Immediately you start texting with him and he's the funniest person of all time.

Yeah. a great I mean that show really is one in a million for Sean's gonna catch it one of these days. We're gonna get some tapes. Sean,

we're gonna make him watch it clockwork orange though. Yeah. Um well, thank you Julia for being with us today. Enjoy the rest of your day and good luck with the film. Uh After the Hunt.

Can't wait. Coming in October. After the hunt. October 10th. October 10th. Wide. October 17th. My birthday October 28th. Oh, great.

That's my el That's That's Franny's birthday. My eldest October. It's the That's a great day.

It's the big month now. Three days after my son Archie and Wendell Clark's birthday. Okay, it doesn't matter.

Like it's like three and a half months and a week, couple weeks after. Anyway, so uh love you to pieces. Thank you for being here.

Lots of love you guys. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Wow. Sean, isn't she great? I love, by the way, so for so long she's been on my list for I'm sure she's on all our list.

Tip top. Yeah. Of every list. I know. Name the list. She's at the top. I was iconic. I was looking at her list of credits. You're just like bang bang bang bang. One big movie after another. It's just um

even has even taken pauses, you know, as she she's she's elected to take pauses and the industry just just keeps her place in line and she comes back in and she's just bang another incredible director she works with.

Yeah. You know, it's it's an incredible career. Yeah. And that movie is really good.

Yeah. That's I can't wait to see that movie. That movie it's it's not it's not a it's not in the English countryside chasing foxes on horses, right?

No, this is this is not none of that's happening. It's not about a salon after the hunt where everybody was sitting in the drawing room talking about the hunt.

Wonderful shot back there. Jeez. What a hunt we had. Oh, that's tricky little fox.

Tricky little fox. Um, yeah. What else can you say? She's, you know, I was going to talk ask her about being called America's sweetheart cuz she's been called that for you her whole life and what what that means like if she hates that anymore, you know? It's like it's true. everybody. There's nobody that doesn't love her,

right? And but it's also like you can you can hate it, but like it is something maybe you could look back on when you're, you know, lying on the bed taking your last 25 breaths and going like that was pretty cool that I held that title, you know?

Yeah. I mean, for so long. She's awesome. And there's other friends of ours that has that title as well.

There are those that share it for sure. I share it. Well, hang on. So many people.

I don't know. Um um who's thinking of a buy? Yo, I know. Well, you're googling something.

Well, let's see what you found. So, I just I just loved her story about that she kept the the dresses from Runaway.

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What is discussed in "Julia Roberts | SmartLess"?

In order: 0:00 Hollywood Bowl, SmartLess, SmartLess Live, Atlantic City; 5:00 Boy Scouts, Georgia, New Mexico; 10:00 Bradley Cooper, Paul Rudd; 15:00 Georgia, Click Models, Grace Papaya, Home Economics; 20:00 Crime Story, Mike Douglas, Mike Douglas Show; 25:00 Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman, Sleeping with the Enemy, Atlantic City; 30:00 Drink your juice Shelby, Fire Island, Flatliners, Mystic Pizza; 35:00 George Clooney, 72 Magazine, Brad Pitt, Eat, Pray, Love; 45:00 After the Hunt, Call Me by Your Name, Cate Blanchett, Conclave; 50:00 Venice, Venice Film Festival, After the Hunt, George Clooney; 55:00 After the Hunt, Michael Grant Terry, Mitch Hurwitz, SmartLess.

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The episode runs 60 min; the transcript is about 11,626 words in 343 timestamped sections.

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