“She Must Have Been Terrified To Fail”: Julia Roberts Quit “Shakespeare In Love,” And The Film’s Producer Revealed What Happened Behind The Scenes

Edward then said the rest of the chemistry reads throughout the next week “went just as badly.” And that she read with a ton of actors, including Hugh Grant and Colin Firth. But that “Julia found fault with all of them: one was stiff, another wasn’t romantic, and so on.”