Eric Roberts rips Julia Roberts acting skills in beloved 80s classic: Nobodys great in that movie

Eric Roberts has a bone to pick with 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.Good.

She’s almost a good actor, and one day she’s gonna be one.'”But the “Dancing With the Stars” contestant didn’t just have a problem with his sister’s performance, he also had feedback for the other cast members.“In fact, I think all those brilliant women — Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah — overacted their asses off in ‘Steel Magnolias,’” penned Roberts.“Nobody’s great in that movie.

They all chewed a lot of scenery, and we know that if an actor cries on film, they go to the top of the class.”“They get the Oscar nod because crying gets a lot of credit.It’s the big joke in all acting classes, even in the great Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio.

Crying and dying bring home the bacon!”Roberts also claimed that the 56-year-old “Pretty Woman” star received positive reviews for portraying the Louisianian character due to her real-life Southern roots. “I also think another reason she got an Oscar nod for ‘Steel Magnolias’ was her authenticity as a sweet, small-town Southern girl,” he recounted.“That’s what she was, after all, or at least that’s how she started off.

I don’t know if she had a dialect...