Julia Roberts Initially Thought ‘Notting Hill’ Was ‘So Stupid’

Notting Hill, the 1999 film about a famous American actress who falls for a humble British bookstore owner, was one of the biggest hits of that year, earning $364 million at the box office and cementing Julia Roberts‘ reputation as queen of the ’90s rom-com. But, as she revealed in a new interview with Deadline, when she first heard about the film from her agent, Roberts was underwhelmed: “I thought, ‘Well, that sounds like the dumbest idea of any movie I could ever do. I’m going to play the world’s biggest movie star and I do what? And then what happens? This sounds so f****** stupid.'”