They get the Oscar nod because crying gets a lot of credit," the actor wrote.
When I saw her inSteel Magnolias, I thought, ‘Okay.
Shes almost a good actor, and one day shes gonna be one.'"
Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, and Daryl Hannah.Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty
Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty
Roberts doesn’t stop at criticizing his sister in the movie.
“Nobodys great in that movie.
They get the Oscar nod because crying gets a lot of credit.
Julia Roberts in ‘Pretty Woman’.Everett Collection
Its the big joke in all acting classes, even in the great Lee Strasbergs Actors Studio.
Crying and dying bring home the bacon!”
“Thats what she was, after all, or at least thats how she started off.
Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts in ‘Steel Magnolias’.Monica Schipper/Getty; TriStar Pictures/Courtesy Everett
Roberts wrote that he thinks his family’s Southern heritage is a significant factor in Julia’s stardom.
Theres a certain colorful and enchanting quality to Southern speech.”
“Everyone loved that movie and Julias role in it,” he wrote.
I watched it happen: Oh my god, Julias becoming a superstar!"
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Some of that attention felt particularly inappropriate.
“First, there were all kinds of suspicions cast upon us even outlandish and creepy rumors of incest.
I dont exactly know where that started,” he wrote.
“I never paid enough homage to her.
And she knew it, bless her heart.
What a trajectory!”
“Julia is a movie star and Im an actor.
Theres a difference,” he wrote.
When people ask me, ‘Do you have a problem with your sisters success?’
I tell them no.
Well never be up for the same part.
Im not waiting for her kind of paycheck, or stardom, or her help."
Eric Roberts’ memoirRunaway Train: Or the Story of My Life So Faris available now.
