Eric Roberts rips Julia Roberts’ acting skills in beloved 80’s classic: ‘Nobody’s great in that movie’
these flowers.The 68-year-old, who is Julia Roberts‘ older brother, shared that he’s not a fan of one of her most critically acclaimed movies, “Steel Magnolias.”In his memoir “Runaway Train: Or the Story of My Life So Far,” Roberts was candid about the 1989 dramedy.“Julia was good in ‘Mystic Pizza,’ great in ‘Pretty Woman,’ but not so much in ‘Steel Magnolias,’ in my opinion, even though it brought Julia her first Academy Award nomination,” he wrote, per Entertainment Weekly on Sept. 20. “I don’t want to sound like an actor talking, or a jealous sibling, but I don’t think her performance held up in that movie.”He added, “When I saw her in ‘Steel Magnolias,’ I thought, ‘Okay.