Eat Pray Love actress Julia Roberts arrives at the US premiere of the flick,
hitting theaters this Friday. (Photo/Getty Images)
This Friday, debuts Julia Roberts in her much-anticipated Eat Pray Love flick. The film was hard work for Roberts and because she wasn't focusing on diet, she gained more than 10 pounds over the course of filming.
"By the time we would cut I'd be done with an entire pizza or a whole bowl of pasta," she said. "The take would just go on and on and I'd love it."
Despite thoughts the movie and book Eat Pray Love is a diet book, the 42-year-old Roberts says she felt like she was "Olympic carbo loading".
As the face of Lancome cosmetics, Julia Roberts is typically a delicate eater, but extensive filming took the star to the point of ravaging hunger.
"If you look at any of the scenes of eating, by the end of the scene, I'm done eating," Roberts told Entertainment Weekly. "Like in the scene with the pizza, by the time the scene is over, I've eaten the entire piece," she said. Adding, "When we were in Naples, we started shooting at eight in the morning, and I think by 8:45 I'd eaten eight or 10 pieces of pizza. Pizza was what I ate all day that day."
While Roberts put on at least 10 pounds, the character she's playing actually gained 30 pounds in four months in real-life. In fact, Director Ryan Murphy said that because her character was "depressed and underweight" before her trip, it only made since that Roberts would gain weight too. She agreed.
"I didn't want people to say, 'Well, she's supposed to go to Italy and eat all this food, but she looks the same in the whole thing'."
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