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\n\t\t\t\t\tDirected by Luca Guadagnino and also starring Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield, ‘After the Hunt’ brings Roberts to Venice’s famed red carpet for the first time in her career\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
VENICE, Italy \u2013 US actor Julia Roberts delves into the rarefied world of academia in her latest film After the Hunt, denying that its ambiguous handling of a campus sexual assault allegation was politically incorrect.<\/p>\n
Directed by Italy\u2019s Luca Guadagnino and also starring Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield, the movie is premiering on Friday at the Venice Film Festival, bringing Roberts to the Lido\u2019s famed red carpet for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n
Roberts plays Alma Olsson, a Yale philosophy professor whose life is upended when her longtime friend and colleague is accused by one of her favorite students of sexual assault.<\/p>\n
The drama probes how supposedly liberal academics wrestle with questions of loyalty, power and identity when confronted with generational fault lines.<\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters ahead of the opening, Roberts pushed back on suggestions the film risked echoing cultural patterns that cast suspicion on survivors, particularly Black women, while preserving ambiguity around males accused of assault.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not making statements, we are portraying these people in these moments of time,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are challenging people to have a conversation and to be excited by that or to be infuriated by that. It\u2019s up to you \u2026 if making this movie does anything, getting everybody to talk to each other is the most exciting thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Hollywood star, who won an Oscar in 2001 for Erin Brockovich, said she relished the chance to play a conflicted, compromised character, like Olsson, who is addicted to painkillers and struggles to respond to the assault allegation.<\/p>\n
\u201cTrouble is where the juicy stuff is, right? \u2026 It\u2019s like dominoes of conflict. Once one falls, suddenly everywhere you turn there\u2019s some new piece of challenge. And that\u2019s what makes it worth getting up and going to work in the morning,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Guadagnino said the film was about the collision of competing perspectives rather than offering a clear moral verdict. \u201cEveryone has their own truth. It\u2019s not that one truth is more important than another,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He added that he also saw the film as a portrayal of the pursuit of power, with Roberts\u2019s character seeking career advancement within the politically fraught atmosphere of Yale.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I see the ambition of wanting something beyond other people, I\u2019m quite interested, because it\u2019s a damnation,\u201d Guadagnino said, adding he just wanted \u201ctranquillity\u201d.<\/p>\n
His work ethic is anything but tranquil as he continues to pump out big-name pictures at the rate of almost one a year.<\/p>\n
Last year he presented Queer with Daniel Craig at Venice and in 2022 showcased Bones & All with Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet at the Lido. His film Challengers had been scheduled to open the 2023 festival but was withdrawn during the actors\u2019 strike.<\/p>\n
After the Hunt is playing out of competition at Venice, meaning it is not in the running for the prestigious Golden Lion award which will be handed out on September 6. \u2013 Rappler.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rappler.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article. Directed by Luca Guadagnino and also starring Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield, ‘After the Hunt’ brings Roberts to Venice’s famed red carpet for the first time in her career VENICE, Italy \u2013 US actor Julia Roberts delves into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1987819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Julia-Roberts-denies-her-new-Venice-film-sets-back-feminist.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}