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Hollywoods "Pretty Woman" Julia Roberts is entering the world of the small screen with the thriller Homecoming. She says she stayed away from television for this long due to lack of offers.
Roberts started her career in Hollywood in 1987 with Crime Story, and walked up the stairs of fame with the success of projects like Pretty Woman, Erin Brockovich, My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill, Runaway Bride, Ocean's Eleven, Valentine's Day, Eat Pray Love, Money Monster and The Normal Heart.
Why did she stay away from the small screen for so long?
Roberts told IANS in a group interview on the sidelines of Prime Video Presents 2018 event here.
"My request was to have one director for all the episodes and that's what I needed. I didn't want to have a different person every week trying to understand the way my brain works. It seemed unfair to the society," she added on a lighter note.
However, Roberts said the makers didn't think about TV while working on the show.
"Sam Esmail really set this up like a movie and I like to think, for me. It was not dissimilar in the process of creating it from a film," she added.
The trailer also shows how Heidi begins to suspect something more suspicious at the heart of the program with one of her patients Walter, essayed by Stephan James.
Created and written by Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg, the show is directed by Esmail -- the man behind Mr. Robot.
"The show did wonders for my personal life. I was so happy that I am me and they are them," said the Oscar-winning actress.
Now, the actress is looking forward to opening the "complex and fascinating" world in front of the audience with the show, which will go live on Amazon Prime Video in November.
Other cast members of Homecoming include Bobby Cannavale, Shea Whigham, Jeremy Allen White, Alex Karpovsky and Roberts' My Best Friend's Wedding co-star Dermot Mulroney.
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