However, look closer. By the mid-2000s, Roberts started chafing at the sweetheart label. She took darker turns ( Closer ) and eventually stepped back from the limelight to protect her family. The woman who once earned $20 million a film learned from Sarandon’s playbook: the only way to survive Hollywood is to control your own narrative.
The only major feature film collaboration between Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts is the Chris Columbus-directed drama Stepmom . susan sarandon and julia roberts
Thelma & Louise is the great connector. In that film, Sarandon (Louise) and Geena Davis (Thelma) changed cinema forever. But Julia Roberts was almost Thelma. Early drafts of the script were considered for Roberts and Michelle Pfeiffer. While Roberts passed (a decision she later admitted to second-guessing), the DNA of that role—the transformation from naive victim to empowered outlaw—is pure Julia Roberts. However, look closer