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Article: Julia.(actress Julia Roberts)
- Article from:
- Esquire
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Go ahead. Just give her the Oscar already. AN APPRECIATION of the last true movie star by, among others, James Gandolfini, Roger Ebert, and, of course, Ralph Nader.
James Gandolfini ON JULIA Julia's got a great engine is the way I look at it. She's got horsepower, and she can shift gears really quickly. That's the amazing thing about her. She can be happy and joking around one minute, and then, just like that, she can shift gears and be going 150 miles an hour in a scene. Myself, I need to work up to it. But she's just like, Bang! Her instrument is very at her fingertips, if you know what I mean. She can do a scene and go back reasonably quickly to being herself. ...