Julia Roberts wasn't yet a superstar when she won the role of Shelby in 'Steel Magnolias,' a role that director Herbert Ross had originally designed for Daryl Hannah, the actress is now revealing.
Herbert Ross said he could "absolutely not" see Hannah in the role of Annelle, but she won the part anyway., recalling Ross' insistence she could not play Annelle in the 1989 film. Hannah explained that she saw herself as far more suited to the slowly unfurling wallflower than Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie, the headstrong bride with an intense form of type 1 diabetes.
Hannah asked Ross to "'please let me'" audition for Annelle, and when she came in wearing her own oversized glasses, with hair teased up to the sky, "he didn't recognize me... I love that feeling where you really turn into somebody else.", it's what happens to Roberts' character in the film's final act that makes her performance among the most memorable.
It's just as well that Ross didn't get his wish, and Hannah played Annelle after all. In a interview withback in February, Sally Field recalled that Ross was"very, very, very hard on Julia. If you ever talk to Julia, she’ll tell you." Roberts was"sort of the newcomer. And she was When asked why Ross might have treated Roberts that way, Field responded plainly that it's "because he could be a real son of a bitch, that’s why...
Roberts earned her first Academy Award nomination for her trouble, and won the first major award of her career at that year's Golden Globes.
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