Julia Roberts praised for 90s interview clip on domestic violence following Blake Lively backlash
Source:https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/julia-roberts-resurfaced-interview-blake-lively
Julia Roberts has been praised after an old interview clip resurfaced where she thoughtfully answered a question about domestic violence, and viewers are telling Blake Lively to "take notes."
The 56-year-old actor who is widely known for her roles in romcoms Pretty Woman and Notting Hill, also starred in the 1991 film Sleeping with the Enemy.
In the psychological thriller, Roberts plays Laura Burney - a woman who has to change her identity in order to escape her abusive husband.
During the press tour for the film, the then-23-year-old was interviewed by late reporter and film critic Bobbie Wygant who asked her what she would do if she was ever in a similar situation as her character.
That's not for me to really say," Roberts answered. "I can't even fathom being in a situation quite that horrible. It's not in my realms of understanding."
To which Wygant said that she would "just fight back" as she "wouldn't be able to take it for three and a half years."
"But I think it's a process of manipulation that grows and becomes stronger than that," Roberts explained. "It's not that cut and dry."
"I think it's amazingly psychological and very destructive, so I don't think it's quite that simple."
Lively was criticised by social media users for telling cinemagoers to “bring their florals” as part of her "tone-deaf" publicity of her latest film It Ends With Us, which similarly deals with the serious issue of domestic violence.
Since the criticism, Lively appears to have responded by posting to her Instagram Story on August 13, where she posted statistics and a resource number.