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J.u.l.i.a. among the stars mega9/3/2023 ![]() He even recast the part of Hugh Grant's Notting Hill flatmate as a Welshman rather than a Scotsman to accommodate the scene-stealing Rhys Ifans from Michell's 1995 Under Milk Wood production at the National Theatre. To theatre and television audiences this Cambridge contemporary of Jimmy Mulville and Griff Rhys Jones has shown an uncanny empathy with different cultures throughout his career. While Michell is unknown to mass movie-goers who may not have caught his ultra-naturalistic, award-winning dramatisation of Jane Austen's Persuasion for BBC TV or the low-budget film Titanic Town, with Julie Walters. Part of my job is to give the impression of enormous calm it's not necessarily how I feel.' But like any other performers, they thrive on a good environment. 'As a species, stars are pretty frightening: they're iconic and you're not. She comes alive in a heightened way - a very remarkable gift. You say 'Action!' and she goes off like a firework. And she taught me things about screen acting: she can fake spontaneity better than anyone I've ever come across. You have to be a pretty good listener and then you get your way. 'So that everybody is in the same film,' he says gently. So why insist on it? Michell, sweat-shirted and sockless, looks calmly at me. Some people actively discourage rehearsing because they feel it can prevent spontaneity on the day.' ![]() To begin with, she was slightly suspicious of it and didn't quite get it, but I think after the first day she enjoyed it enormously and realised how helpful it was. I thought, 'My God, this is going to be a fight,' but once she got the idea, she was absolutely full-on for it. With so many women, there's a real childlike vulnerability when they take their make-up off. 'I wanted the full panoply of her as a goddess and her as a mortal. 'There were some scenes where I didn't want her to wear any make-up at all,' says Michell, a mild-mannered 42-year-old who looks rather like a younger, less alarming version of Harold Pinter. For many observers who have seen the film in advance of its release on Friday, Roberts' performance is a revelation. Even more shockingly to those with delicate sensibilities, he insisted that his £8.4m star rehearse for her art-imitating-life role as the world's most famous movie actress, Anna Scott. ![]() He is also the film director who made Julia Roberts scrub her face before appearing in Notting Hill. chopard/InstagramĬhopard, which sponsors the annual event on the French Riviera, also loaned jewelry to stars including Eva Longoria, Elle Fanning and Lashana Lynch for the first few days’ worth of festivities.Roger Michell is Mr X, the unknown quantity in the Notting Hill team that reunites the Four Weddings And A Funeral gang of writer Richard Curtis, leading man Hugh Grant and producer Duncan Kenworthy for another Working Title project. ![]() A closer look at Roberts’ massive Chopard necklace. The “Pretty Woman” actress isn’t the only one rocking gobstopper-sized gems at the European film fest Thursday also saw Anne Hathaway make her Cannes debut wearing a 107.15-carat cushion-cut sapphire necklace from Bulgari. Roberts, 54, smartly styled the massive stone with a simple, streamlined navy Louis Vuitton jumpsuit with tails, letting the magnificent jewel (and the star’s megawatt smile) take center stage. Roberts wore a sleek Louis Vuitton jumpsuit with her jewelry. The Oscar winner’s Chopard necklace features a rare yellow diamond “weighing over 100 carats” at its center, according to the brand, as well as 54.67 additional carats of pear-shaped and cushion-cut diamonds making up the rest of the bauble.ĭesigned by Chopard Co-President Caroline Scheufele and set in Fairmined-certified ethical 18k white and yellow gold, the necklace - like the similarly sized yellow Tiffany Diamond made famous by Audrey Hepburn in 1961, and later by Lady Gaga at the 2019 Oscars - is easily worth eight figures, if not priceless. Julia Roberts hit the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival 2022 premiere of “Armageddon Time” Thursday wearing a truly jaw-dropping piece of jewelry. Emma Roberts calls working with Richard Gere a ‘full circle’ moment
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