On July 4, 2002, Julia Roberts And Daniel Moder they got married on a ranch in Taos, New Mexico. At the time, Roberts was at the peak of her career and was arguably the most in-demand actress in the world. A year earlier she had won the Oscar for Erin Brockovich, a movie for which she was paid $ 20 million (she became the first woman in Hollywood history to do so), and was racking up appearances in blockbuster how Ocean’s Eleven. And Moder was then a cameraman (later became a cinematographer) without much credit and completely unknown to the general public and even the industry.
Their relationship and subsequent marriage came as a big surprise to the world and the Mecca of cinema, somewhat reminiscent of Roberts’ fictional romance with Hugh Grant in Notting Hill. After twenty years, the wedding has proved to be one of the most solid in Hollywood and the two are still as close as the first day, as the actress unveiled this week by posting on Instagram a photo of the two of them kissing passionately. “Winds! I can’t stop smiling, I can’t stop kissing you, ”Roberts wrote accompanying the post.
Moder was also not far behind and posted a photo of the first days of their relationship: «Today we started our 20th year of marriage. This photo was taken on a dusty road before the big idea came to us. Now I am by the side of this beautiful girl, day after day. Epic day after day ».
Roberts and Moder fell in love almost immediately, but they waited a while to get married because they both had other partners. When they met on the set of The Mexican in 2000, the film in which she starred with Brad Pitt, he had been married for three years to Argentine make-up artist Vera Steimberg and the actress of Pretty Woman was in a relationship with actor Benjamin Bratt.
In fact, before Moder entered her life, Roberts was known to only have relationships with celebrity, especially actors like Liam Neeson, Jason Patric, Dylan McDermott and Matthew Perry. The most notable of her were those of her to Kiefer Sutherland, with whom she broke up in 1991, just three days before her wedding, and to country singer Lyle Lovett, to whom she was married between 1993 and 1995.
Moder ended her divorce in 2002 and married the actress once the legal part was settled. A year later, Roberts went to Oprah Winfrey for an interview with the magazine OR and spoke openly about her marriage. Winfrey herself noticed the actress’s happiness and asked her for an explanation:
“It has a lot to do with my marriage. My husband, Danny, enlightened me. As a married man, I have met people and experiences that have nourished my life in an incredible way, ”Roberts replied.
“So you proved the theory that a rich and famous person can marry someone who isn’t famous and have a successful marriage?” Winfrey continued.
“Yup. Jobs don’t marry, people marry. It may sound cliché and I’ve said it a thousand times, but I think I’m basically the same simple person I’ve always been. I’m just doing something ostentatious and absurd that makes people think I’m ultra-glamorous, ”she said.
In the years immediately following her marriage, Roberts’ career continued to rise. In 2003 she again broke the record for highest-paid actress in Hollywood, receiving $ 25 million for her portrayal of her in Mona Lisa’s Smile. In 2004 you released two box office hits: Closer And Ocean’s Twelve.
Later, at the age of 37, she gives birth to twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and her film career takes a back seat. In 2005 she only made a cameo in a Dave Matthews Band music video and in 2006 she lent him his voice to Ant Bully And Charlotte’s Web. A year later he makes a big comeback in Charlie Wilson’s War, but she also has her third son, Henry, and decides not to work at the rhythm of the 90s and early 2000s. Instead, she has focused on carefully choosing her projects, which are not always commercial (such as August, for which she was again nominated for an Oscar) and on the priority given to her children, so that they could have a normal childhood, as far away from the spotlight as possible.
“It wasn’t a premeditated decision to work less, but I was struggling to find things that interested me, and then I was surprised at how quickly the years go by,” Roberts said in a recent interview with New York Times. “Then there is also the problem of reconciling my husband’s working hours, my children’s school hours or summer holidays. I can’t throw myself into a project just because I want it. I feel a lot of pride when I am at home with my family and when I am a stay-at-home mom ».
Both Roberts and Moder did their best to keep their children away from Hollywood exposure as they grew up. So much so that in 2014 the actress confessed to Express who “don’t know what I do for a living.” This has not yet entered their life. They are small children and I am only their mother, so they don’t have to worry about anything else. ‘
The twins are coming of age and approaching college, however, and Hazel made her Cannes red carpet debut last year to accompany her father to the film’s premiere. Flag Day, of which he was director of photography. Moder also likes to share pictures of his other two sons on Instagram playing sports like skateboarding and surfing, which he is passionate about.
With her grown-up children, Roberts has also returned to work more often, especially on television in prestigious series such as Homecoming and the recent Gaslit with Sean Penn. This year she will also return to romantic comedy, the genre that made her famous, alongside her close friend and partner in many films, George Clooney, in Ticket to Paradise.
The accumulation of other projects has brought it back to the fore in the world of prime and promotional interviews. In one of the last, for Sirius XM, he was asked what the secret to a lasting marriage is and Roberts answered bluntly: “Two separate bathrooms and lots of kisses.”
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