BEVERLY HILLS, California 鈥� Julia Roberts had to correct her new director, Sam Esmail (Mr. Robot), about the plot of My Best Friend鈥檚 Wedding.
鈥淲e weren鈥檛 boyfriend and girlfriend. We were best friends.鈥�
The classic 1997 rom-com came up while Roberts was promoting her role on Amazon鈥檚 Homecoming (premi猫ring Nov. 2), in which she shares the screen with her Wedding co-star Dermot Mulroney for the third time.
After playing best friends in Wedding, 鈥渉e was my sister鈥檚 boyfriend in August, Osage County, and finally my boyfriend (in Homecoming). It only took 30 years.鈥�
Homecoming is based on the popular Gimlet Media podcast, and follows a caseworker at a questionable transitional centre for soldiers returning home from battle.
It鈥檚 the first regular role on a TV series for Roberts (she appeared in the 2014 HBO movie The Normal Heart), but she told reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour that she doesn鈥檛 really see a big difference between acting on the big and small screens.
鈥淚 guess I didn鈥檛 really think of it as small screen/big screen. My television is very big,鈥� she joked, before adding, 鈥渢here isn鈥檛 [a distinction] anymore. For everything the bar is so high.鈥�
Roberts, however, quickly adopted the habit of many TV actors and creators, by keeping a tight lid on plot spoilers. When asked if she could talk about her character鈥檚 arc in the season, she simply said, 鈥淣ope.鈥�
鈥淲e just want to keep the suspense,鈥� she added, vaguely encouraging fans to 鈥渋magine the possibilities of the things.鈥�
She also wouldn鈥檛 entertain questions about whether she鈥檇 stick around TV for a potential second season.
鈥淚 think we鈥檙e going to peel one onion at a time.鈥�
But she was effusive about her relationship with Mulroney, and he was happy to be working with her for the third time, too.
鈥淚t鈥檚 always been such a privilege to work with Julia,鈥� Mulroney said. 鈥淸In] these three jobs, even in this where I have a more modest sized role in the narrative, I鈥檝e had incredible scenes with this incredible actor.鈥�
Roberts looked out at the gathered press and asked, 鈥淒id everybody get that?鈥�
Mulroney laughed. 鈥淒id everybody get how great it is to have a buddy like Jules?鈥�
