{"id":119377,"date":"2024-08-18T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/julia-roberts-praised-for-90s-interview-clip-on-domestic-violence-following-blake-lively-backlash\/"},"modified":"2024-08-18T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T17:53:03","slug":"julia-roberts-praised-for-90s-interview-clip-on-domestic-violence-following-blake-lively-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/18\/julia-roberts-praised-for-90s-interview-clip-on-domestic-violence-following-blake-lively-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts praised for 90s interview clip on domestic violence following Blake Lively backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Source:<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/celebrities\/julia-roberts-resurfaced-interview-blake-lively\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/celebrities\/julia-roberts-resurfaced-interview-blake-lively<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;take notes.&#8221;<br \/>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.<br \/>In the psychological thriller, Roberts plays Laura Burney &#8211; a woman who has to change her identity in order to escape her abusive husband.<br \/>During the press tour for the film, the then-23-year-old was interviewed by late reporter and film critic Bobbie Wygant who <b>asked her what she would do if she was ever in a similar situation as her character.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>That&#8217;s not for me to really say,&#8221; Roberts answered. &#8220;I can&#8217;t even fathom being in a situation quite that horrible. It&#8217;s not in my realms of understanding.&#8221;<\/b><br \/>To which Wygant said that she would &#8220;just fight back&#8221; as she &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be able to take it for three and a half years.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;But I think it&#8217;s a process of manipulation that grows and becomes stronger than that,&#8221; Roberts explained. &#8220;It&#8217;s not that cut and dry.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s amazingly psychological and very destructive, so I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s quite that simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Lively was criticised by social media users for telling cinemagoers to \u201cbring their florals\u201d as part of her &#8220;tone-deaf&#8221; publicity of her latest film It Ends With Us, which similarly deals with the serious issue of domestic violence.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129004774.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;take notes.&#8221;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-119377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}