‘Homecoming’ did wonders for my personal life : Julia Roberts

Hollywoods “Pretty Woman” Julia Roberts is entering the world of the small screen with the thriller “Homecoming”. She says she stayed away from television for this long due to lack of offers. Roberts started her career in Hollywood in 1987 with “Crime Story”, and walked up the stairs of fame with the success of projects like “Pretty Woman”, “Erin Brockovich”, “My Best Friend’s Wedding”, “Notting Hill”, “Runaway Bride”, “Ocean’s Eleven”, “Valentine’s Day”, “Eat Pray Love”, “Money Monster” and “The Normal Heart”.

Why did she stay away from the small screen for so long? “The lack of being offered a TV show probably. This (‘Homecoming’) was such a great piece of material. I wasn’t making a choice to do TV. I was making a choice to go where I thought the work was interesting,” Roberts told IANS in a group interview on the sidelines of Prime Video Presents 2018 event here. “My request was to have one director for all the episodes and that’s what I needed. I didn’t want to have a different person every week trying to understand the way my brain works. It seemed unfair to the society,”

she added on a lighter note. However, Roberts said the makers didn’t think about TV while working on the show. “Sam Esmail really set this up like a movie and I like to think, for me. It was not dissimilar in the process of creating it from a film,” she added.