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- Julia Roberts spoke with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer about Andrew Garfield’s first day on the set of After the Hunt, and his immediate “great scene”
- “I was just like, ‘Whoa, I’m sweating,’ ” the Oscar-winning actress recalled
- After the Hunt, also starring Ayo Edebiri, is in theaters Friday, Oct. 10
Julia Roberts was taken with Andrew Garfield’s talent right away on the set of their new movie After the Hunt.
Speaking with ABC News’ Diane Sawyer for an interview that aired on Good Morning America Wednesday, Oct. 8, the Academy Award winner recalled a particularly intense sequence that they filmed during Garfield’s first day on set.
“First take, [Andrew] just blows in and has this great scene,” said Roberts, 57. “And you know, it’s a long scene and then it’s over. You know, ‘Cut.’ ”
Her response? “I was just like, ‘Whoa, I’m sweating,’ ” the actress said.
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Roberts stars in After the Hunt as a Yale professor named Alma, who is caught in a professional and personal predicament when her favorite student (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her colleague and friend Hank (Garfield, 42) of assault following a social gathering at Alma’s residence.
“It’s been really such a beautiful thing to sit next to Ayo, who I really admire and adore, and to listen to the words she chooses, and the way that she sees the world and this movie,” Roberts told Sawyer, 79, of The Bear star Edebiri, 30.
Roberts’ bond with Garfield goes past their scenes together in After the Hunt. During a Sept. 26 press conference following a screening of the Luca Guadagnino-directed psychological thriller at the New York Film Festival, the actress joked that she considers Garfield her therapist after he broke down the meaning behind the film’s central storyline.
“That’s where it gets really hard and fun and exciting and horrible,” he said, speaking to his performance. “And the only way we get to the healing, I think for all of us, is by traveling through all of those kind of second layer materials, like those unconscious materials, those unconscious drives.”
“Because underneath that is the kind of interconnectedness of everything as far as I’m concerned, but the only way through is to go down through all of that horrible mishegoss that we all collectively share,” Garfield added.
“Don’t you want Andrew to be your therapist?” Roberts quipped in response. “Because he’s my therapist, and I feel great.”
Elsewhere during the same press conference, Roberts spoke to playing an unlikeable lead character, explaining, “Everything that is natural to Alma is unnatural to me as a human.”
“And so it was interesting trying to find ways into that,” she added.
After the Hunt is in theaters Friday, Oct. 10.
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