That was just anxiety, you know, stage fright in real life.
As good as she was during the week, she hasn’t performed."
Susie finally gets her sweet revenge by stealing all his clothes and leaving him stranded.
Julia Roberts.Phillip Faraone/Getty
Fame or no fame, Roberts' nerves were a problem… until they weren’t.
So if you paint the rubber band and just stretch it, the paint starts to chip off.
That’s what you saw with Julia."
Matthew Perry and Julia Roberts on ‘Friends’.Liaison/Getty
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But the live audience actually helped once Roberts got rolling.
“She was doing the scene and she got her first and a second laugh,” Lembeck said.
“And Matthew flubs a line and the audience loves it.
I remember how to do this.'
And then she just became a beast in her subsequent scenes.”
Lembeck added that Roberts didn’t display any movie-star behavior on set.
“The first time I saw her, I walked by Julia.
I didn’t know it was her,” he said.
“[She had] stringy hair; maybe just woke up with no makeup, taller than expected…
But what a doll.
She laughed during the week harder than anybody.
She had so much fun.”
