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Well, I certainly didn’t see this one coming. While speaking to Gayle King, Julia Roberts revealed that her parents were actually friends with Dr. Martin Luther King’s family while living in Atlanta and running a theater School.
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Referring to segregation at that time, Roberts stated, “One day Coretta called my mother and asked if her kids could be part of the school because they were having a hard time finding a place that would accept her kids.”
“My mom was like, ‘Sure, come on over,’ and so they all just became friends, and they helped us out of a jam.”
Times were so bad that it was reported that the Klu Klux Klan’s had a blown-up car outside one of Betty and Walter Roberts’s plays after King Jr.s daughter Yolanda was cast for a role that she had kiss a white actor.
Julia Roberts Turns 55
The actress recently celebrated her 55th birthday by sharing a selfie on Instagram of herself. She was pictured sipping a mug with pink and gold balloons behind her. She’s currently promoting the film Tickets to Paradise starring alongside George Clooney. The actors have an on-screen Partnership of over 20 years, which recently hit a milestone. With the success of Tickets to Paradise, the duo’s five movie collaborations raked a combination of a global box office hall of $1 billion.
Since the release of Tickets to Paradise, the movie has grossed over $100 million internationally. The other biggest hit to date is Ocean’s 11, released in 2001, which brought $451. 5 million. Followed by the sequel Ocean’s Twelve in 2004, Money Monster in 2016 with $93.9 million and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 2003 with $36.9 million.
In Tickets to Paradise, the actors played a divorced couple who teamed up to stop their daughter from marrying a farmer that she met while on vacation. Back in January, Clooney had revealed that he only agreed to star in the film as Roberts also signed on to play his ex-wife.
“In this one Julia and I just get to be mean to each other in the funniest way, and the minute I read it I called Julia, and I said, ‘Did you get this?’ and she said, ‘Yeah,’ and I said ‘Are you going to do it?’ and she goes ‘Are you going to do it? and I said, ‘Yeah, if you do it.’ So, it was just one of those very lucky things,” Clooney said.
