To be or not to be in ShakespeareInLove, that was the question for Julia Roberts.
wearing a corseted gown got the studio excited enough to cough up the dough," Zwick writes of securing financing for the project. Roberts traveled to London for chemistry reads with a crop of "yet-to-be-discovered young actors" for the role of William Shakespeare, Zwick adds, saying Roberts "found fault with all of them."
Julia Roberts attends the Seventh Annual #SeeHer Award at 2023 Critics' Choice Awards on January 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. ; Shakespeare in Love Gwyneth Paltrow| Credit: Presley Ann/Getty Images; Everett Collection as the young playwright, according to the producer, but the actor was already committed to filming 1993's.
The following two weeks of casting went "just as badly," Zwick continues. "I no longer have my cast lists, but among the yet-to-be-discovered young actors, I remember: Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Colin Firth, Sean Bean, Jeremy Northam. Julia found fault with all of them: one was stiff, another wasn't romantic, and so on.". "On the morning of the test, Julia emerged from makeup, looking radiant in full period costume," says the producer.
When Zwick got in contact with Roberts' manager, he says he was told that Roberts had flown back to the U.S. and decided to leave the project. "I've never spoken to Julia again," Zwick writes. At the time, the producer says he was told Universal had already spent $6 million on the project. "I bear her no ill will," he adds of Roberts. "She was a frightened 24-year-old. I wasn't much older, trying to act the grown-up as I watched the Globe Theatre [set] torn down. And with it my dreams of grandeur."was ultimately produced by Miramax and disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein, who unsuccessfully tried to remove Zwick from the project.
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