Roberts keeps beliefs to herself
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August 19, 2010, Thursday
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JULIA Roberts isn't planning any more spiritual journeys now that the Oscar-winning actress is done making a film based on the book "Eat Pray Love."
The movie, inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir, follows the story of a frustrated divorcee who takes a long trip overseas in search of peace in Italy, India and Bali.
Roberts, a happily married mother of three, said she read and enjoyed the book long before it came across her desk as a proposed movie script and jumped at the chance to play the leading role. But she said she wasn't looking to make any big alterations in her own life.
"No, no changes," Roberts said in Tokyo yesterday, where she is promoting the movie's release. "I'm good."
Roberts, who was raised a Catholic but is a practicing Hindu, said the film offered her a chance to draw from her own experiences, but said she had been interested in Hinduism before she came across the book and did not convert because of the shooting.
Beyond that, she said she would keep her beliefs to herself.
"I've realized something my mother told me 22 years ago," she said. "You're an actor, act. Don't talk about politics or religion."
One departure for Roberts, 42, does lie ahead.
Since her box-office breakthrough in 1990's "Pretty Woman," Roberts has done little TV work, but she is now working as a producer of a documentary series called "Extraordinary Moms" set to debut in January on Oprah Winfrey's new network.
The movie, inspired by Elizabeth Gilbert's best-selling memoir, follows the story of a frustrated divorcee who takes a long trip overseas in search of peace in Italy, India and Bali.
Roberts, a happily married mother of three, said she read and enjoyed the book long before it came across her desk as a proposed movie script and jumped at the chance to play the leading role. But she said she wasn't looking to make any big alterations in her own life.
"No, no changes," Roberts said in Tokyo yesterday, where she is promoting the movie's release. "I'm good."
Roberts, who was raised a Catholic but is a practicing Hindu, said the film offered her a chance to draw from her own experiences, but said she had been interested in Hinduism before she came across the book and did not convert because of the shooting.
Beyond that, she said she would keep her beliefs to herself.
"I've realized something my mother told me 22 years ago," she said. "You're an actor, act. Don't talk about politics or religion."
One departure for Roberts, 42, does lie ahead.
Since her box-office breakthrough in 1990's "Pretty Woman," Roberts has done little TV work, but she is now working as a producer of a documentary series called "Extraordinary Moms" set to debut in January on Oprah Winfrey's new network.
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