Julia Roberts Turned Down Rom-Coms for 20 Years Because a Good Script ‘Didn’t Exist’

When the Julia Roberts and George Clooney-starring “Ticket to Paradise” opens in theaters later this year, it will mark Roberts’ first time leading a romantic comedy in more than 20 years.

The genre made Roberts a global superstar in the 1990s, from her Oscar-nominated performance in “Pretty Women” to rom-com classics “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “Notting Hill,” among others.

One would have to go all the way back to 2001’s “America’s Sweethearts” for the last traditional rom-com led by Roberts.Why the two-decade wait for another Roberts rom-com? As the actor recently told The New York Times, she wasn’t purposefully avoiding the genre that made her a superstar.

Quite the contrary.

Roberts said her extended hiatus from the rom-com genre was not her choice, but a result of the lack of an adequate script or idea.“People sometimes misconstrue the amount of time that’s gone by that

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