Julia Roberts was ‘terrified’ to meet Chloë Sevigny

Julia Roberts might have wanted to run away from this interaction.

The star, 57, admitted that she was nervous to meet her co-star Chloë Sevigny from the upcoming crime thriller, “After the Hunt.”

“I was so excited and intimidated about meeting Chloë,” Roberts admitted to Variety in an interview on Thursday.

The “Notting Hill” star noted that her co-star Ayo Edebiri and the movie’s director, Luca Guadagnino, were also starstruck.

Roberts recounted, “Allan [Mandelbaum], our producer, he came in, and he goes, ‘Chloë should just be here in a couple minutes.’ And I look up, and Ayo looks up, and we match eyes. Luca goes, ‘What?’ And I go, ‘I’m scared.’ And Ayo goes, ‘Me too.’”

The actress’s daughter, Hazel, was also nervous to meet Sevigny, 50.

“And then, like a minute later, the doorbell rang,” continued Roberts, “and Hazel goes, ‘I’m leaving through the garage.’ And truly we were so excited and intimidated.”

Sevigny has won a Golden Globe and been nominated for an Academy Award, an Emmy and a SAG Award throughout her career. The actress has worked in both television and film and has been recognized for her days in fashion.

Sevigny modeled for brands like Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu and worked as a fashion designer in the ’90s.

“After the Hunt” follows a college professor (Roberts) who “finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil, [Edebiri, 29], levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, [Andrew Garfield, 42], and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light,” per the film’s synopsis.

Roberts confessed that the movie could cause a bit of an uproar in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

“There’s a lot of old arguments that get rejuvenated in this movie in a way that does create conversation,” Roberts explained in August, per The Hollywood Reporter. “The best part of your question is you talking about how you all came out of the theater talking about [the film], and that’s how we wanted it to feel—that everybody comes out with all these different feelings, emotions and points of views.”

While promoting the film at the Venice Film Festival, an interview moment with the Oscar winner, Edebiri and Garfield went viral after the journalist excluded the “Bear” vet from a question about Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement.

Italian reporter Federica Polidoro for ArtsLife TV asked, “What have we lost in the politically correct era, and what we have to expect in Hollywood after the #MeToo movement and the Black Lives Matter are done?”

She specified that her question was only to Roberts and Garfield, in which the “Erin Brockovich” star asked Polidoro to repeat the question, noting, “With your sunglasses on, I can’t tell which of us you’re talking to.” 

The interviewer then repeated that her question was posed for the two co-stars.

“I know that that’s not for me, and I don’t know if it’s purposeful if it’s not for me… [but] I don’t think it’s done,” Edebiri interjected. “I don’t think it’s done at all.”

“Hashtags might not be used as much but I do think that there’s work being done by activists, by people every day that’s beautiful, important work,” the Emmy winner explained. “That’s not finished, that’s really, really active for a reason because this world’s really charged. And that work isn’t finished at all.”

Garfield said that both “movements are still absolutely alive,” referring to Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, while Roberts quipped that the “work isn’t finished at all.” 

Fans jumped on social media to voice their outrage, with one user writing on X, “One thing we’re not talking enough about: how Ayo Edebiri *had* to be gracious in dealing with this appalling behavior and question because she would’ve been criticized for being ‘unprofessional’ or ‘rude’ or every other dogwhistle in the bag.”

Polidoro later took to Instagram to address the sitdown.

“Following an interview, I have been subjected to personal insults and attacks because of a question that, for some reason, was not well received by some members of the public,” she began.

“I find it striking that those who unjustly accuse me of racism and consider themselves custodians of justice find acceptable violent language, personal attacks, and cyberbullying.”

Polidoro expressed that she wanted to “clarify” that she has interviewed “people of every background and ethnicity.”

She concluded that her own family is “multi-ethnic, matriarchal, and feminist, with a significant history of immigration……. In my view, the real racists are those who see racism everywhere and seek to muzzle journalism, limiting freedom of analysis, critical thinking, and the plurality of perspectives.”