Julia Roberts

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q40523: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Player, which 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Flatliners (1990); Pretty Woman (1990); Hook (1991); The Player (1992); The Pelican Brief (1993); My Best Friend's Wedding (1997); Erin Brockovich (2000); Secret in Their Eyes (2015); After the Hunt (2025); America's Sweethearts; Conspiracy Theory; I Love Trouble; Mona Lisa Smile; Panic Carefully; The Mexican.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Working Girl (1988): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pretty Woman (1990), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story.
    “It openly steal shit from this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming) · through Pretty Woman (1990), which they acted in: Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read). Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took.
    “It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Alfred Hitchcock: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley notes the Hitchcock-like touches in the rattlesnake and police station scenes.
    “Little Hitchcock homage, I feel like.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Nashville (1975): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Nashville ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley says the tricks Altman uses in The Player, like famous people dropping into a space, are ones he used in Nashville.
    “a lot of the tricks that he's using in the player, I mean, he uses in Nashville, right?”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:17:32 · Wesley Morris (0.85 sure it was them)

Singin' in the Rain (1952): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Singin' in the Rain ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Sean says movies about movies go back long before The Player, e.g. Singin' in the Rain, but this one is far more inside the joke.
    “Going back to singing in the rain.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Long Goodbye (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Long Goodbye ⇒ The Player (the host's read). Wesley reads Greta Scacchi's character as an echo of Nina van Pallandt's ice queen in The Long Goodbye, itself a riff on noir femmes fatales.
    “that character is a an echo of another Altman character, the Nina Van Palant character in the longabai”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 1:07:08 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

Touch of Evil (1958): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: Touch of Evil ⇒ The Player (the host's read). The Player's opening nods to Touch of Evil's tracking shot by having Fred Ward's character talk about it, then reveal he never watches foreign films.
    “Fred Ward talking about the tracking shot and touch of evil, but then revealing that he never watches foreign films.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:35:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Christopher Robin (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Hook (1991), which they acted in: Hook ⇒ Christopher Robin (the host's read). Hook foreshadowed reboot culture; Christopher Robin is basically Hook again.
    “Like, we're actually literally getting a version of Hook this year with Christopher Robin, the new Winnie the Pooh movie”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Mean Girls (2004): 1 line

  1. industry (awards crossover) · through Pretty Woman (1990), which they acted in: Pretty Woman ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). The Vivian Award for best clothes started at the Pretty Woman rewatchables; here it is reversed for worst clothes.
    “We had the Vivian Award for best clothes in a movie that we started during the Pretty Women rewatchables”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:45:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

The Larry Sanders Show (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Player (1992), which they acted in: The Player ⇒ The Larry Sanders Show (the host's read). Bill asks whether The Player is ground zero for the meta-Hollywood strain that runs through Larry Sanders and Curb.
    “Larry Sanders and Curb your enthusiasm and all these different things we've had over the 30 years.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:03:46 · Bill Simmons (0.95 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (23) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Katherine Heigl → Julia Roberts. Bill lines up Heigl with Reese Witherspoon, young Sandra Bullock and Julia Roberts as someone you can tell 'has it'.
    “you kind of know it when somebody has it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:19:26 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Julia Roberts → Sandra Bullock. After the Pretty Woman era Julia Roberts outran every actress for years, until Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock got a foothold.
    “And then Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock finally like clawed their way in at least a tiny bit.”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:59:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Julia Roberts → After the Hunt. Roberts was great in Guadagnino's After the Hunt despite its script.
    “in Luca Guadalnino's after the hunt.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:27:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Melanie Griffith → Julia Roberts. Roberts would not have been as comfortable getting dressed on screen.
    “I don't know if a lot of, like, Julia Roberts, I don't think would have been, oh, I'm just going to get dressed in 3 different scenes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:23:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Kathleen Turner → Julia Roberts. Turner was a more interesting-choices version of Julia Roberts, with sex appeal against America's-sweetheart.
    “She was Julie Roberts for Julia Roberts making more interesting choices.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:08:32 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (6)

  1. people (people): Julia Roberts → Lyle Lovett. Wesley asks a gossip question about whether Julia Roberts met Lyle Lovett on The Player.
    “Did Julia Roberts meet Lyle Lovett on the set of this movie?”
    The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris · 0:59:31 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Julia Roberts → Danny Moder. Roberts married a regular guy who works as a camera guy, offered as the path Lohan might have taken.
    “He's a camera guy. camera guy? Just married a regular dude and she was good.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:18:55 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Julia Roberts → Sam Esmail. Esmail keeps working with Roberts, which is credited as good news.
    “our friend Sam Esmail has is definitely and is still working with her”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:27:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Pretty Woman → Julia Roberts. Pretty Woman launched Julia Roberts, one of Amanda's favorite movie stars.
    “obviously also launches one of my favorite movie stars, Julia Roberts”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Flatliners → Julia Roberts. Flatliners is the other big Julia Roberts movie of 1990.
    “The other Big Julia Roberts movie of 1990.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): Secret in Their Eyes → Julia Roberts. The only film pairing Kidman and Julia Roberts; a remake of the 2009 Argentine film.
    “this is a film based on a very successful 2009 Argentinian Argentine film”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:37:45 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (alternate arc): Lindsay Lohan → Julia Roberts. Roberts married a regular guy and stayed fine; maybe Lohan could have had that path.
    “Just married a regular dude and she was good.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:18:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Julia Roberts → Wes Anderson. They wonder whether directors like Wes Anderson or Paul Thomas Anderson would cast her.
    “does Wes Anderson want to work with Julia Roberts, you know?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:28:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Julia Roberts: When she walked on stage at the Golden Globes, everyone stood and applauded, which they liken to unused nuclear power.
    “Like, we're not using that is like nuclear power, you know?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:27:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Julia Roberts: Reading the words 'Green Book' with a 1000-watt smile that the speaker reads as 'why is it me?'
    “Sure, but, you know, her smile has many tones, and I know that tone.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:11:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)