Julia Roberts Cuts Gotham Awards 2025 Speech Short for Bathroom Break

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Julia Roberts She brought the magic to the 2025 Gotham Awards.

Roberts (58 years old) attended the annual awards ceremony with After fishing exit Luca Guadagninowhich was held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City, on Monday, October 1. The Oscar winner stunned in an oversized blue satin suit for the event, which she paired with black high-heeled shoes, allowing her wavy red hair to cascade over her shoulders.

After walking the red carpet, Roberts and Guadagnino, 54, were honored with the Visionary Tribute Award during the ceremony. The award was presented to the pair by a friend of Roberts Paul Rudd before she and Guadagnino took to the stage to deliver a joint speech.

“Not only have I had the great privilege of acting with Luca, but I will be acting as his interpreter,” Roberts began before stepping into a segment where she acted as Guadagnino’s translator, repeating his speech — which was in English — to the audience, but in Italian.

After exchanging laughs, Roberts joked that she wanted to make her speech quick because she needed to use the bathroom.

“I didn’t realize how long this would last and I didn’t regulate my water intake,” she joked. “Paul, thank you for those kind words. Everyone here is living out their creative dreams, thank you for doing that in a world that seems to be falling apart. This is the tape and the glue that keeps it together. One of my great dreams was to work with Luca Guadagnino, and now that I’ve done it once, I just want to keep doing it.”

It was announced before Monday’s ceremony that Roberts and Guadagnino will receive the Gotham Film Award.

“The Gotham community has long cherished Luca Guadagnino’s emotionally expressive stories, and in After the Hunt, Julia Roberts delivers a luminous, monumental performance that deepens an already extraordinary career – bringing his unique direction behind one of the most talked-about and provocative films of the year.” Jeffrey SharpThe executive director of the Gotham Film and Media Institute said in a statement. “Their partnership speaks to the power of collaboration at the highest level.”

Roberts, who played Yale professor Alma Emhoff in the psychological thriller, spoke about the honor, saying in a statement: “I could not have imagined collaborating on this project with anyone other than Luca Guadagnino.”

She continued: “To inhabit a character like Alma. So cruel, and burdened with unresolved secrets and traumas, one must be in complete coordination with the director. With Luca, it was a constant, unfolding joy. He understands human behavior in a unique and wonderful way and his attention to detail is unparalleled. There is nothing that makes me happier than expanding my life as an actress in constant collaboration with him.”

After the Hunt chronicles the internal conflict Alma faces when she “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student makes an accusation against one of her classmates and a dark secret from her past threatens to come to light,” according to the official chronicle.

For Guadagnino, 54, casting Roberts in the film was a no-brainer.

He said in a statement before the ceremony: “I only choose actors and actresses that I love – I feel palpable affection for them, anticipation and excitement when I see them – my emotional trust in them mixed with chemistry. And now I love Julia Roberts.” “She’s everything. Julia Roberts is cinema with a capital C.”

The director also praised Roberts for her role as Shelby Eatonton-Latchery in 1989. Steel magnoliaWhich was the first time he saw her on the big screen

“Even early in her career, she trusted her audience and invited them into her story as Shelby,” he said. “Her light has never dimmed, it has only gotten brighter and, more than four decades later, dare I say more subtle. I knew I would need to work with her one day.”

In addition to the special insight tribute, it was previously announced Jeremy Allen White and Scott Cooper He will receive Gotham Cultural Icon honors for Springsteen: Save me from nowhere, Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman He will be honored with Gotham’s musical tribute to Song Song Blue, Noah Bomback He will accept the manager’s greetings Jay Kelly, Tessa Thompson He will receive a Spotlight Tribute Award for calmthe Sinners The actors will be celebrated with a tribute band and Frankenstein You will receive a Gotham Vanguard salute.