{"id":186509,"date":"2025-08-30T05:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186509\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:34:09","slug":"julia-roberts-andrew-garfield-shock-venice-at-after-the-hunt-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186509\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield Shock Venice at After the Hunt Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJulia Roberts<\/a> got emotional as her new movie, \u201cAfter the Hunt<\/a>\u201d \u2014 Luca Guadagnino\u2019s drama in which she plays a troubled professor \u2014 wowed Venice on Friday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Amazon MGM Studios release premiered on the Lido to a six-minute standing ovation.\u00a0As the clapping continued, Roberts wiped away tears, blew kisses to the crowd and hugged her director and co-stars Ayo Edebiri (who also teared up) and Andrew Garfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tGuadagnino and Roberts both paused to sign autographs on the red carpet before entering the packed Sala Grande to cheers of \u201cJulia!\u201d and \u201cLuca!\u201d Garfield was also a fan favorite, taking selfies with the crowd while sporting a sharp blue suit and freshly-shaven look.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn \u201cAfter the Hunt,\u201d Roberts plays Alma Olsson, a revered Ivy League professor who is forced to grapple with her own secretive past after one of her colleagues is accused of crossing a line with her student. Garfield plays Henrik \u201cHank\u201d Gibson, the colleague of Roberts\u2019 character, and \u201cThe Bear\u201d breakout Edebiri is Maggie Price, Alma\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9e who comes forward with the allegation.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe R-rated film has already caused controversy on the Lido, with a heated press conference earlier on Friday leveling questions about the film\u2019s messaging around the #MeToo movement and cancel culture. Roberts defended her latest work<\/a>, denying that \u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d is attempting to stoke controversy and lamenting that society is \u201closing the art of conversation in humanity right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re not making statements; we are portraying these people in this moment in time,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know about controversy, per se, but we are challenging people to have conversation. To be excited or infuriated about it is up to you. If making this movie does anything, getting everybody to talk to each other is the most exciting thing that I think we could accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d also stars Guadagnino regulars Michael Stuhlbarg and Chlo\u00eb Sevigny in supporting roles. The script was penned by Nora Garrett in her feature screenwriting debut. It was produced by Guadagnino, Brian Grazer, Jeb Brody and Allan Mandelbaum. Executive producers include Garrett, Karen Lunder, Justin Wilkes and Alice Dawson.<\/p>\n

\n\tGuadagnino was just at Venice Film Festival<\/a> last year with \u201cQueer,\u201d his William S. Burroughs\u2019 adaptation starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey that premiered in competition. The period romantic drama earned a nine-minute standing ovation<\/a>. Italian auteur Guadagnino has a long history at the festival, having premiered numerous films there over the years including his directorial debut \u201cThe Protagonists\u201d in 1999; the 2004 documentary \u201cCuoco Contandino\u201d; Desire Trilogy installments \u201cI Am Love\u201d (2009) and \u201cA Bigger Splash\u201d (2015) starring Tilda Swinton; 2018\u2019s \u201cSuspiria\u201d with Dakota Johnson; his 2020 Ferragamo documentary \u201cThe Shoemaker of Dreams\u201d; and romantic horror \u201cBones and All\u201d (2022) starring Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and Taylor Russell, which won the Silver Lion for best direction.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d premieres in theaters in New York and L.A. on Oct. 10 and expands wide Oct. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts got emotional as her new movie, \u201cAfter the Hunt\u201d \u2014 Luca Guadagnino\u2019s drama in which she…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[47631,47632,171,6667,67,132,68,30989],"class_list":{"0":"post-186509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-after-the-hunt","9":"tag-andrew-garfield","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-julia-roberts","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-venice-film-festival"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115116091978645776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}