"After Pretty Woman and the success of that movie, a lot of scripts that I read I felt were really uninteresting and sort of tedious and not well-written, fully realised parts," Roberts recalls during a recent press conference. Dressed in off-white casual pants and a button-down blouse, she apologises for being a little lethargic. She's fighting the flu.

"I started just passing on everything, and what started off as just me thinking, well, I'll just wait for something good, turned into an over-two-year wait," she says.

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