Eric Roberts says Julia wasn’t good in ‘Steel Magnolias’

Well she considers mega watt smiling as acting.

He's not wrong, you know.

I’ll give him credit for admitting he was “exhausting to be around,” but, frankly, he still sounds exhausting. I still might read his book, if the reviews are half decent. Some of his early performances are fantastic.

I agree with him. She's a southern girl and yet she put on this silly exaggerated southern accent as if she was a northerner trying to do the accent. It made her look amateurish. She would have had no problem if she had just used her natural accent (not the fake accent she's developed since she became a movie star).

R3 you base what you READ around critics?

R4 different towns in different states have different accents. If you travel through the south some parts have strong accents.

r6 Yet none have that fucked up weird accent she tried

R4 - but they all did. Blame the director. Jesus - the accents coming from Olivia Dukakis and Darryl Hannah were just AWFUL.

Eric Roberts fucked up his face and his career and never got over it. He's never risen about C level actor and he's jealous as fuck of his sister.

There's a TWELVE year age gap between the two of them, and when their parents divorce, Eric lived with his father. I honestly don't think these two siblings really know each other at all.

I do think Julia got a small jump-kick in her career being the younger sister of Eric - but she got marked with that 'it' stardust and has never looked back.

It’s a horrible fucking movie that’s not even fun as camp.

I laughed out of embarrassment during Sally’s big scene.

Anyone watch his stint on Celebrity Rehab? There were quite a few nasty pieces of work on his season and he seemed very reasonable.

Eric moved Julia and sister Lisa (I think that's her name) to Connecticut to get them away from their abusive stepfather. This was when Eric was an up and coming star.

Eric should know. His performance in "A Talking Cat!?!" was superb.

Eric is a good actor. I love Steel Magnolias.

I did like that sitcom he was in - Less than Perfect

No one in Steel Magnolias was very good, especially Julia. It's ridiculous that she got an Oscar nom for that.

I love Steel Magnolias and all the performances

She had me fool. She seemed like a real diabetic southern Frau.

fooled*.

r17 Quite an easy thing to do, mafucker

Sad, the desperation of some. Happy Sunday all.

He needs to come sit next to me.

Haha! I love this cunt. And he was ugly hot in his prime.

He's now up to 750 IMDB credits. And 90 upcoming projects. No one can accuse him of being work-shy.

R23 He is the king of the modern day B-movie.

[quote] He's now up to 750 IMDB credits. And 90 upcoming projects

This isn’t a good thing.

He looks like an aging Lesbian.

She's never been in a good movie. Only in crap.

Julia Roberts isn't good in much. I'd say her best role was Erin Brockovich and she was basically herself. She cannot act. Period. She ruined Notting Hill imo.

She has classic crazy eyes too.

Her "accent" in Erin Brokovich was horrible, as well. Her whole performance was horrible (in EB). It just looked like Julia Roberts in a blonde wig and pushup bra and bad accent.

Steel Magnolias is an awful cringe fest. I don’t know how people watch it.

R23, I can just imagine how low his asking price is.

"There are times when Eric does three movies in one day—literally racing from one indie set to another. Some days are so ridiculous as to be almost sublime, as when he acted simultaneously in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and in Witless Protection with Larry the Cable Guy."

Is his hair a wig?

He should be a DL fave for his love of embarrassing her

R11 - he did? Why did Julia graduate from high school in Georgia then?

I don't think they did. Eric had a full blown cocaine addiction by the time Julia graduated from HS.

She lived with him in New York when she started acting

R36 - she's never mentioned it. She said she was struggling to get by and had several roommates. It may have been for a few weeks after she graduated but I don't think it was long term at all.

Anyways - he's always been an asshole who shoots himself in the foot at every opportunity. He should know better by now - or then.

Erin Brockovic

Notting Hill

Both good movies with really good performances. It must feel good to slam people who are so much more talented, successful, and rich than you will ever be.

Julia had lots of help in her life. Her parents ran a theater school in Atlanta and one day Coretta Scott King called asking if she could enroll her kids there because she was having trouble finding any other school that would take them. Julia's mother said absolutely they can enroll. Over time Julia's parents became friends with the Kings. FF to when Julia was ready to be born her parents could not pay the hospital bill, and MLK II and Coretta paid it.

Is that why Julia was considered for the role of Harriet Tubman? That would make sense.

He wins because for many years he was in my top ten 'I want to fuck' list. Julia has never been on that list.

Eric & Julia both stuttered growing up. Eric's stuttering was considerably worse than Julia's. If you listen to Eric speak today you can detect a certain cadence to his voice that he likely learned to counteract his stuttering.

[quote]His performance in "A Talking Cat!?!" was superb.

Eric knows cats:

[quote]“So I go over to Sandy’s [Dennis] house and we start talking about books. After about a month, I’m over there in the afternoon, just me and her in the house, and we’re having a talk about cats. How many cats on this property? She goes, Probably 30. And her house had 12 rooms, so you didn’t feel cats were an issue. So I was fine with it. And I’m a cat person anyway. . . . The next thing I know we were rolling around together." They began “this little book affair,” which turned into a four-year relationship, from 1980 to 1983. It almost ended, Eric says, after he had a brief relationship with another actress while Dennis was on the road doing a play. Sandy found out and forgave him, but there was another problem: “Too many cats. By now there’s a hundred cats. Not 30, there’s 100,” Eric recalls. He offered to start an animal shelter if she would agree to keep just 10 or 12, but Sandy refused. Neither would budge, so Eric asked for his engagement ring back. Over the years he had bought her an antique jewelry box and a lot of jewelry, but he wanted her to return only the ring. “Sandy went upstairs and stood at the top of the winding staircase,” Eric recalls. “Here’s your engagement ring,” she said as she hurled the jewelry box and it crashed to the floor, smashing into pieces. He never saw her again.

I’ve always thought Eric Roberts was gay. And Sandy Dennis always seemed gay, too. Hmm. A lavender relationship? Or maybe both bisexual. Nothing wrong with that, but R43 just reminded me of this.

Where is the lie???

There was a scene in Pope of Greenwich Village: Mickey Rourke & Eric Roberts, arm in arm, smoking cigarettes, walking across the street. They looked gay, but I just figured it was two Italian guys (the characters), who are known for that kind of affection (male on male).

He literally looked like a different person before the accident. I've always thought he was handsome, but he was REALLY great looking when he started out - and before his face was mangled.

[quote]Eric had a full blown cocaine addiction by the time Julia graduated from HS.

It happens.

Steel Magnolias may not be "Citizen Kane" but it's the most quotable movie I can think of. Everybody knows what "Shelby drink the juice!" and "looks like two pigs fighting under a blanket" means but I can't think of one Eric Roberts movie quote. So I say sour grapes, Mister Roberts.

R38 is either Julia or Emma.

Dey took my thumb Charlieeeee!

You’re welcome R49

He started out as a terrific actor, but you can't be good doing 74 shitty projects per week for years on end. He squandered his talent, and it's no surprise that he's bitter about his baby sister beating him soundly at his chosen profession.

[quote]the accents coming from Olivia Dukakis and Darryl Hannah were just AWFUL.

Olympia Dukakis.

I am reading all these coohhments in a bayd suhthern accint

Eric was *wonderful* (and beautiful) in a 1980 PBS production of the Willa Cather story "Paul's Case."

It's about a crypto-gay teen in 1905 who — unable to fit in at home or school and yearning for a glamorous, exciting life — runs away to the city with stolen money and meets a sad end.

The closing sentences of Cather's story are some of the most memorable I've ever read.

I wonder if he ever traded sex with men for coke.

When Sandy Dennis saw "Paul's Case" on TV, she was so impressed with Roberts' performance that she asked her agent (who also managed Roberts) to introduce them. I would say it's his greatest performance, but I haven't seen all 750 of his movies yet.

He’s not wrong.

There's something off about how he cycles through issuing public apologies and proclamations of love to her and then bashing her and the back again. Rinses and repeats.

R56 most addicts have

The Julia bashing will help sell the book, even if they mended fences 20 years ago....

R43 he had an affair with Ellen Barkin while Sandy Dennis was away.

Ellen liked the cokeheads.

He had a near-death experience from the car accident where a mysterious Romanian couple recommended medications for him to get his memory back.

"Two days later, while Eric was depressed and contemplating living with severe memory loss for the rest of his life, an elderly couple looking like gypsies whom he didn’t recognize came to visit him in the hospital. They said they were from Romania and they gave him specific instructions about medicine to take that would help him regain his memory."

That near-death story with the mysterious Romanians sounds better than 745 of the movies he has made.

Eric was a sex bomb in the Coca-Cola kid

He was hot when young with a nice face. He was amazing in Star 80.

"Hey Eric, you suck on Dancing With the Stars."

R47 He “literally” did, huh?

His mouth looks good. What happened to his sister's? Even his niece. They both look like they should have fish hooks in theirs. Huge, gaping maws and Julia's upper lip hangs over her lower giving her a Simpson's look.

Eric Roberts was absolutely beautiful as Ted Bancroft in Another World. It was 1977, I was 13 years old, and I couldn’t take my eyes off him when my mother and aunts would watch the show.

Does. He. Ever. Shut. Up?

He was good (and gorgeous) in a movie called Raggedy Man with Sissy Spacek from 1981.

[quote] Steel Magnolias may not be "Citizen Kane" but it's the most quotable movie I can think of. Everybody knows what "Shelby drink the juice!" and "looks like two pigs fighting under a blanket" means

Maybe I'm hanging around the wrong crowd, but I never hear people quoting from Steel Magnolias.

[quote]Maybe I'm hanging around the wrong crowd, but I never hear people quoting from Steel Magnolias.

Are you new to DataLounge?

[quote] R56] most addicts have.

And I’m the same to prove it.

Steel Magnolias is a thing with Southern gay men of a certain age.

EB is more talented (and used to be hotter) than JR.

He was perfectly cast in "Babylon" as the opportunistic fame hogging father of Margot Robbie's character.

I used to teach “Paul’s Case” to my college students every semester. One day, a quiet student came to me before class and asked through tears if she could be excused from class that day—her brother had jumped in front of a NYC subway the previous year. She wasn’t a good enough actress to be faking it. Of course I sent her home. You just never know. But it’s a powerful story, one of my favorites

Mine too, R80. Paul's Case is truly brilliant.

Here it is if anyone would like to read it.

That concluding paragraph — I've rarely read one better.

Julia was well cast in Mystic Pizza.

Julia was amazing in steel magnolias. who the fuck is he to judge - his career has always been shit.

750 films and ONE nom? For supporting??

She's annoying in everything she does.

Yes, Julia was amazing in SM. If you are blind and deaf.

[quote] Anyone watch his stint on Celebrity Rehab? He seemed very reasonable.

Yeah but while all the other patients in their season were addicted to hard drugs like alcohol, crack, meth and heroin, Eric Roberts and Rachel Uchitel were in the D-list Rehab because of a joke of an addiction: he was addicted to vaping weed once a day and she was addicted... to love. The struggle was real!

I believe Roberts has broken the SAG record for the highest amount of movie and tv credits. There's some article about it somewhere. He's fanatical about working non-stop, (thus some of his questionable movie choices).

I always wondered if it was his way of staying sober.

I love Steel Magnolias. It's a classic. Sure it's full of hams, isn't that the point? Dolly, Tom Skerritt, and Sam Shepard were great in it. Dylan McDermott wasn't bad. Shirley, Olympia, Sally and Julia - all hams. Daryl Hannah was the worst actor in it, to me.

When JFK Jr. was dating Daryl Hannah, Jackie wondered if she was retarded.

[quote]Steel Magnolias is a thing with Southern gay men of a certain age.

Like track lighting and Nagel prints.

Southern gay? All gays. And women.

No, not all gays. Please.

There are tons of gays who have never seen it.

R90 and she wouldn't be wrong. Daryl has said she's autistic.

Oh to be a fly on the wall during those visits with Jackie, John and Daryl.

Guess which one has an Oscar.

I find Julia incredibly ugly for the most part. Sometimes pretty but mostly ugly. Nice hair but that mouth!

I can’t stand this movie. Drink the juice Shelby. And the all black TV remake didn’t move me either.

It was Olympia Dukakis and Shirley MacLaine who bugged me the most. Dukakis talking out the side of her mouth like some unfortunate mashup of Joe Pesci and Joanne Woodward (who, despite being Southern, did awful Southern accents). But the entire film was an annoying misfire to me.

Drink your juice Shelby!

How do you feel about blush and bashful R98?

SM felt very much like a star turn, but for like four different actresses: Sally, Shirley, Dolly and Olympia. Julia wasn't famous then, and Darryl well...bless, but for the four leads it felt very "performative" which is in part because the source material is self-conscious and stagey, but their performances and "accents" did not help. Still, I like watching it for a cheap cry.

[quote] Eric Roberts and Rachel Uchitel were in the D-list Rehab because of a joke of an addiction: he was addicted to vaping weed once a day and she was addicted... to love.

He probably considered it a job like any other.

I want an alternate version, one in which Shelby does NOT drink the juice and Julia must do her best vibrating seizure for the rest of the movie, with Sally Field wheeling her from room to room for two hours while Julia just shakes and cries.

How is this movie any different or better than Terms of Endearment?

[quote] How is this movie any different or better than Terms of Endearment?

Terms of Endearment is Flashdance while Steel Magnolias is Heavenly Bodies.

R105, I haven't seen Heavenly Bodies, either. I'll have to assume it's the Poor Man's Flashdance.

Terms of Endearment was written by Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry. Enough said.

TOE is a far better film than SM.

Winger gives an excellent performance in Terms (as does Lithgow) and nobody realized at that point that Maclaine was going to portray the character in TOE in every film for the rest of her career...

She lapped him like 1000 times why does this guy continue to show his resume. We know. You could have been great but never did. She was the most famous person in the world for like a decade. You lost dude. Yes we know you love her. She loves you too. Now shut the fuck up.

Who cares what film is better? Steel Magnolias is the modern day weepie TOE was for young girls and slumber party attendees post 1990. Every girl of any age loves the movie and has seen it. Just about any woman of any age has seen this movie and loves it.

[quote]He said she was good in Mystic Pizza

She wasn't, though.

R101 all the actresses you mentioned were already stars dear. It can’t be a “star turn” for stars.

Steel Magnolias is a classic and beloved film.

The retard says “not all gays love it. Some haven’t seen it”

Well once they do they’re most likely to like it. The way most women will like it.

R102 he was paid to be there

R112 She was.

R113 that's what a star turn means: a performance done by a star.

Does. He. Ever. Shut. Up?

R116 yes she was. She was very good and striking in Mystic Pizza and why she got Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman quickly became a star

I think people interpret a star turn in different ways.

An established star turning in a bravura performance. A new star turning in a breakthrough career catapulting performance. A big established star turning in an against type something they've never done before performance.

Silver daddy who will appear in just about everything except gay porn. That's one doctor I wouldn't mind being stalked by.