Emma Roberts has little interest in reaching the identical “scary” ranges of fame as her Oscar-winning aunt.
If the final title wasn’t sufficient of a clue, Emma is Julia Roberts’ niece.
From enjoying dress-up on the Erin Brockovich set to being forged as an additional in America’s Sweethearts, Emma’s traditionally made no secret of the truth that she realized so much concerning the trade by tagging alongside together with her aunt all through her childhood.
By the age of eight, Emma was impressed to get into appearing too, and he or she quickly landed a job in her first film, Blow, alongside Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz, when she was solely 9 years previous.
As she acquired older, she moved on to teen motion pictures like Aquamarine, Wild Baby, and Nancy Drew. Though she’s maybe finest identified for her work with Ryan Murphy, having starred in Scream Queens and quite a few seasons of American Horror Story.
Emma has beforehand dismissed comparisons between herself and Julia, telling Tatler that she “by no means aspired” to copy her aunt’s profession path. “I really like her a lot, I really like her work, however I’m simply doing my very own factor,” she mentioned.
Now, the 33-year-old is doubling down on her stance, admitting that she doesn’t envy her Aunt Julia’s fame after witnessing the scrutiny that comes with it.
“It’s clearly enjoyable, and it’s nice, however there is part of it that’s actually scary,” she mentioned in the course of the newest episode of iHeartPodcasts’Desk for Two with Bruce Bozzi, the place she recalled seeing “very up shut” what mega-fame “actually seems to be like.”
“Fame at a sure stage is sort of scary,” she reiterated. “And I keep in mind [thinking] as a child, even in my later teenagers, I by no means need my fame to outweigh my work as a result of there’s nothing scarier to me than being so well-known that you just’re by no means left alone.”
“I feel I converse very plainly,” she advised the outlet. “That’s sort of how I see myself. I’m very forthright. There are a whole lot of personalities on the planet that don’t settle for that simply, and it could actually appear actually harsh, even when I really feel like I’m simply being trustworthy about one thing and simply saying that is how I see it. I by no means am making an attempt to be unkind.”
