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

He said she was good in Mystic Pizza, great in Pretty Woman, but bad in Steel Magnolias! But he says everyone’s performance in Steel Magnolias was bad!

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by Anonymousreply 121September 28, 2024 8:35 AM

Well she considers mega watt smiling as acting.

by Anonymousreply 1September 22, 2024 2:43 PM

He's not wrong, you know.

by Anonymousreply 2September 22, 2024 2:51 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 3September 22, 2024 2:55 PM

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).

by Anonymousreply 4September 22, 2024 2:58 PM

R3 you base what you READ around critics?

by Anonymousreply 5September 22, 2024 3:00 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 6September 22, 2024 3:00 PM

r6 Yet none have that fucked up weird accent she tried

by Anonymousreply 7September 22, 2024 3:03 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 8September 22, 2024 3:05 PM

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

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

by Anonymousreply 9September 22, 2024 3:12 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 10September 22, 2024 3:14 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 11September 22, 2024 3:33 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 12September 22, 2024 3:34 PM

Eric is a good actor. I love Steel Magnolias.

by Anonymousreply 13September 22, 2024 3:37 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 14September 22, 2024 3:40 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 15September 22, 2024 3:44 PM

I love Steel Magnolias and all the performances

by Anonymousreply 16September 22, 2024 3:45 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 17September 22, 2024 4:24 PM

fooled*.

by Anonymousreply 18September 22, 2024 4:34 PM

r17 Quite an easy thing to do, mafucker

by Anonymousreply 19September 22, 2024 4:38 PM

Sad, the desperation of some. Happy Sunday all.

by Anonymousreply 20September 22, 2024 4:39 PM

He needs to come sit next to me.

by Anonymousreply 21September 22, 2024 4:40 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 22September 22, 2024 4:51 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 23September 22, 2024 4:52 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 24September 22, 2024 4:53 PM

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

This isn’t a good thing.

by Anonymousreply 25September 22, 2024 4:56 PM

He looks like an aging Lesbian.

by Anonymousreply 26September 22, 2024 5:27 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 27September 22, 2024 5:34 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 28September 22, 2024 5:35 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 29September 22, 2024 5:37 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 30September 22, 2024 5:44 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 31September 22, 2024 5:45 PM

"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."

by Anonymousreply 32September 22, 2024 5:47 PM

Is his hair a wig?

by Anonymousreply 33September 22, 2024 6:25 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 34September 22, 2024 6:34 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 35September 22, 2024 6:39 PM

She lived with him in New York when she started acting

by Anonymousreply 36September 22, 2024 6:45 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 37September 22, 2024 7:04 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 38September 22, 2024 7:07 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 39September 22, 2024 7:08 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 40September 22, 2024 7:09 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 41September 22, 2024 7:10 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 42September 22, 2024 7:14 PM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 43September 22, 2024 7:18 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 44September 22, 2024 7:42 PM

Where is the lie???

by Anonymousreply 45September 22, 2024 7:52 PM

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).

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by Anonymousreply 46September 22, 2024 7:55 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 47September 22, 2024 7:59 PM

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

It happens.

by Anonymousreply 48September 22, 2024 10:13 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 49September 22, 2024 11:11 PM

R38 is either Julia or Emma.

by Anonymousreply 50September 22, 2024 11:17 PM

Dey took my thumb Charlieeeee!

You’re welcome R49

by Anonymousreply 51September 22, 2024 11:30 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 52September 22, 2024 11:46 PM

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

Olympia Dukakis.

by Anonymousreply 53September 22, 2024 11:54 PM

I am reading all these coohhments in a bayd suhthern accint

by Anonymousreply 54September 23, 2024 12:10 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 55September 23, 2024 12:19 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 56September 23, 2024 12:31 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 57September 23, 2024 12:33 AM

He’s not wrong.

by Anonymousreply 58September 23, 2024 1:24 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 59September 23, 2024 1:35 AM

R56 most addicts have

by Anonymousreply 60September 23, 2024 1:36 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 61September 23, 2024 1:37 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 62September 23, 2024 1:39 AM

Ellen liked the cokeheads.

by Anonymousreply 63September 23, 2024 3:28 AM

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."

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by Anonymousreply 64September 23, 2024 4:56 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 65September 23, 2024 5:01 AM

Eric was a sex bomb in the Coca-Cola kid

by Anonymousreply 66September 23, 2024 5:23 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 67September 23, 2024 9:20 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 68September 23, 2024 12:41 PM

R47 He “literally” did, huh?

by Anonymousreply 69September 23, 2024 12:49 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 70September 23, 2024 2:01 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 71September 23, 2024 2:16 PM

Does. He. Ever. Shut. Up?

by Anonymousreply 72September 23, 2024 2:18 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 73September 23, 2024 3:58 PM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 74September 23, 2024 9:18 PM

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

Are you new to DataLounge?

by Anonymousreply 75September 23, 2024 9:22 PM

[quote] R56] most addicts have.

And I’m the same to prove it.

by Anonymousreply 76September 23, 2024 9:59 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 77September 23, 2024 10:38 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 78September 23, 2024 10:48 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 79September 23, 2024 10:53 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 80September 23, 2024 10:58 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 81September 23, 2024 11:01 PM

Julia was well cast in Mystic Pizza.

by Anonymousreply 82September 24, 2024 12:01 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 83September 24, 2024 1:07 AM

750 films and ONE nom? For supporting??

by Anonymousreply 84September 24, 2024 8:14 AM

She's annoying in everything she does.

by Anonymousreply 85September 24, 2024 9:13 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 86September 24, 2024 1:54 PM

[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!

by Anonymousreply 87September 24, 2024 2:29 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 88September 24, 2024 7:47 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 89September 24, 2024 7:59 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 90September 24, 2024 8:41 PM

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

Like track lighting and Nagel prints.

by Anonymousreply 91September 24, 2024 10:42 PM

Southern gay? All gays. And women.

by Anonymousreply 92September 24, 2024 10:52 PM

No, not all gays. Please.

There are tons of gays who have never seen it.

by Anonymousreply 93September 24, 2024 10:57 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 94September 24, 2024 11:01 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 95September 25, 2024 12:07 PM

Guess which one has an Oscar.

by Anonymousreply 96September 25, 2024 2:03 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 97September 25, 2024 2:13 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 98September 25, 2024 2:19 PM

Drink your juice Shelby!

by Anonymousreply 99September 25, 2024 2:30 PM

How do you feel about blush and bashful R98?

by Anonymousreply 100September 25, 2024 4:27 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 101September 26, 2024 12:41 AM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 102September 26, 2024 12:46 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 103September 26, 2024 12:47 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 104September 26, 2024 12:54 AM

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

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

by Anonymousreply 105September 26, 2024 12:58 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 106September 26, 2024 1:00 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 107September 26, 2024 12:17 PM

TOE is a far better film than SM.

by Anonymousreply 108September 26, 2024 3:29 PM

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...

by Anonymousreply 109September 26, 2024 8:31 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 110September 27, 2024 6:38 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 111September 27, 2024 6:45 AM

[quote]He said she was good in Mystic Pizza

She wasn't, though.

by Anonymousreply 112September 27, 2024 6:59 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 113September 27, 2024 9:28 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 114September 27, 2024 9:29 AM

R102 he was paid to be there

by Anonymousreply 115September 27, 2024 9:29 AM

R112 She was.

by Anonymousreply 116September 27, 2024 10:48 PM

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

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by Anonymousreply 117September 28, 2024 2:45 AM

Does. He. Ever. Shut. Up?

by Anonymousreply 118September 28, 2024 2:50 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 119September 28, 2024 5:15 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 120September 28, 2024 6:39 AM

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

by Anonymousreply 121September 28, 2024 8:35 AM
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