With roles in “Pretty Woman” and “Erin Brockovich,” Julia Roberts was one of the most well-known actors of the 2000s, but her personal life was not always as easy.
Roberts was known as “The Runaway Bride” because she skipped her wedding day and had a number of failed relationships. But now that she’s settled down, she’s happier than ever.
On the set of a movie they were both working on, Roberts met her husband, Danny Moder. Roberts felt embarrassed to do what she did for a living in front of Moder at that point because she thought it was silly.
However, it was on that set that the couple’s love story started to take shape and has continued ever since. In fact, Julia has admitted that she is finally content with her husband and kids and her life as a whole.
20 years later, they are still as deeply in love as they were when they first started dating. When Roberts thought of her husband of 20 years, she still experienced butterflies, she admitted to Gayle King.
King thought it was wonderful that Roberts still had such strong feelings for her husband after so many years of dating. In numerous other interviews, Roberts has praised Moder and credited him with their lovely life.
In the 2000s, Roberts became the first female employee to earn the same salary as men. On the “Erin Brockovich” set, Roberts made a demand to have the pay gap between her and her male coworkers closed.
However, Roberts was not content simply because she was the one who eliminated the pay gap on the set. Instead, finding true love and getting married to that person improved her entire world.
When asked by Oprah Winfrey why she was finally content with her life and feeling so happy, Roberts revealed the following:
“A huge part of it is my marriage. My husband, Danny, has really shined the light for me. Because of being married, I’ve met people and experienced all these little things that have nurtured my life—not so much changed it, just nurtured it in a way that’s astounding.”
Roberts’ marriage gave her the opportunity to discover what was truly important to her, and as a result, she made pivotal choices regarding her acting career and her family’s future.
Roberts didn’t play another acting role for a long time. Instead, she focused on raising her family while watching her husband leave for work. She made use of the time to establish her family and their shared lives.
Roberts had put a hold on her career.
Roberts revealed that she took a break from her career partly because she couldn’t find a project she was eager to work on and partly due to her family’s schedule in an interview with the New York Times about her family life.
Before she could make any rash decisions about accepting a new role, the actress said she had to take into account the work schedules of both her husband and her children.
She also acknowledged that in the years she wasn’t working, she saw herself as a homemaker. She concentrated on raising her kids and taking care of them when their father was unable to.
Roberts claimed that she was always close to her kids as they grew up and that she took her role as a mother very seriously. Only during the duration of one of their naps did she leave.
Because it would have coincided with her youngest child starting school, she nearly turned down a role. She did, however, admit that as her kids grew older, she felt she owed it to them to demonstrate her creative abilities.
Roberts was urged by Moder to resume acting.
Because she did not want to leave her children, Roberts acknowledged that accepting motherhood was challenging for her. Moder was the one who assured her that it was acceptable and that she would eventually have to do it.
She felt it was her duty to demonstrate her creativity to her kids, but she was afraid to return to acting until Moder persuaded her that it would be alright for her to do so.
Speaking of her conversation with her husband, she stated that it was a struggle for women to not feel guilty about having interests outside of the family and wanting to pursue other opportunities to find happiness.
When she did start acting again, she claimed that she didn’t choose which roles to accept based on what she believed other people would think, but rather, whether or not she enjoyed the script.
She added that she would advise any young person in a situation similar to hers to avoid seeking advice from actors. According to her, every person’s experience on the job should be unique.
Roberts and George Clooney recently collaborated on a rom-com project. Despite the fact that Roberts hasn’t played a rom-com character in a while, she has expressed excitement about the opportunity.
With the New York Times, she discussed the position and expressed her excitement.
“You get into that mode of those endorphins going off when you’re clever and people going, “Oh!” Then that becomes this automatic thing where you’re always thinking in terms of creating fun. It’s a joy to play in that sandbox. It has been a long time.”
She did, however, mention that because she was older and able to comprehend that things were not always rosy in the world, she tended to take on heavier roles during this period of her career.
She also acknowledged that one reason she took on the more demanding roles was that she was happy with her life and felt it unnecessary to play someone who wasn’t. Roberts claimed that accessing the more serious parts was harder for her.
Roberts’ final revelation in her New York Times interview was that she was more interested in her family and her husband than she was in conforming to what other people thought of her.
