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Nick Nolte addresses ‘absurd’ Julia Roberts drama on set

It seems they’ve put the “trouble” behind them.

After nearly three decades, actor Nick Nolte is addressing the alleged behind-the-scenes beef he had with Julia Roberts while filming the ’90s flick “I Love Trouble.”

“It was absurd what we went through,” Nolte, 81, admitted to Insider while promoting his new drama “Rittenhouse Square.”

In a 1993 interview with the New York Times ahead of the release of “I Love Trouble,” Roberts accused Nolte of exhibiting off-putting behavior during production.

“From the moment I met him we sort of gave each other a hard time, and naturally we get on each other’s nerves,” Roberts said when asked about her co-star’s reputation for behaving crudely on set. While he can be “completely charming and very nice,” she said, “he’s also completely disgusting.”

Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte in “I Love Trouble” (1994).
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Actor Nick Nolte is seen filming on set of the movie “Rittenhouse” on October 25, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Just like their rival reporter characters in “I Love Trouble,” it appears that Nolte and Roberts have put aside their differences.
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The “Pretty Woman” star added, “He’s going to hate me for saying this, but he seems [to] go out of his way to repel people. He’s a kick.”

Nolte reportedly responded in an interview with the Los Angeles Times at the time, “It’s not nice to call someone ‘disgusting.’ But she’s not a nice person. Everyone knows that.”

"It was absurd what we went through," Nolte, 81, said describing his feud with Roberts while on the set of "I Love Trouble."
“It was absurd what we went through,” Nolte, 81, said describing his feud with Roberts on the set of “I Love Trouble.”
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It was a lot of drama for a critically-panned romantic comedy about rival Chicago reporters who join forces to investigate corruption.

It appears Nolte no longer harbors ill will toward his former co-star. When asked if he’d “buried the hatchet,” the Nebraska native said, “No, I haven’t. Though it’s buried.”

He also took part of the blame for the supposed on-set feud. “It was partly my fault and a little bit of hers,” Nolte admitted. “Julia got married at the beginning of that film, and it was one of those things where I just approached it all wrong.”

He was referencing Roberts’ highly-publicized 1993 marriage to Lyle Lovett, which ended in divorce less than two years later.

Julia Roberts arrives at the premiere of Universal Pictures’ “Ticket To Paradise” at Regency Village Theatre on Oct. 17, 2022 in Los Angeles.
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The “Runaway Bride” star is married to Danny Moder, a cameraman she met on the set of “The Mexican” in 2000, and with whom she shares three children: twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, who turn 18 this month; and 15-year-old Henry.

Roberts recently claimed her secret to maintaining a successful marriage is copious smooching. “I always say the same thing, and I’m sticking with it,” the Academy Award winner told E! News in October. “It’s making out. Lots of making out.”

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Here’s why Julia Roberts turned down rom-com movies for 20 years; Find out

 

Julia Roberts explains that this year’s Ticket to Paradise is her first romantic comedy in 20 years since none of the rom-com screenplays that came across her desk before were fascinating enough for her to appear in.

Roberts has a slew of future projects, many of which are hard-hitting dramas like the ones she’s been working on primarily for the previous two decades. She will be featured in Gaslit, a Starz mini-series on the Watergate affair, beginning this weekend. However, her forthcoming film Ticket to Paradise, in which she will co-star with George Clooney, will return her to her romantic comedy origins. Ol Parker (Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again) wrote and directed the film, which follows the tale of a young lady who goes to Bali on a post-graduation holiday and unexpectedly chooses to marry a local.

However, in a recent New York Times Magazine interview, Roberts said that it has taken her so long to feature in another romantic comedy because she hasn’t come across any outstanding screenplays in the last 20 years. She is also more selective about which projects she will sign on to now that she has three children. Roberts said as per Screenrant, “Here’s the thing: If I’d thought something was good enough, I would have done it. But I also had three kids in the last 18 years. That raises the bar even more because then it’s not only Is this material good? It’s also the math equation of my husband’s work schedule and the kids’ school schedule and summer vacation. It’s not just, Oh, I think I want to do this. I have a sense of great pride in being home with my family and considering myself a homemaker.” 

Meanwhile, if everything goes well with Ticket to Paradise, Roberts will hopefully continue to take more comedy parts that her fans like seeing her in. Perhaps she’ll re-team with any of her former co-stars, such as Dermot Mulroney or Hugh Grant. Given how picky Roberts is, it seems like any project she agrees on will be worth seeing.

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