In an interview with W magazine publishers, Julia Roberts (43 years) revealed that she suffered a panic attack filming on the romantic drama “Larry Crowne” when she was forced to speak in public, before a group of young actors who portray her students, her character is a professor of the communication sciences named Mercedes Tainot, who lost the pleasure of sitting at the desk and as her marriage entered into an impasse she fell prey to the demons of alcohol.

Directed by Tom Hanks, based on a scenario developed by the same Tom Hanks in collaboration with Nia Vardalos, the film “Larry Crowne” will be released in cinema on the 01/07/2011, so it will be interesting to see how Tom Hanks did in the role of a middle-aged man who returns to college after being fired from work because he didn’t has a bachelor’s and especially Julia Roberts came in the teacher’s skin that has lost passion for the profession and about life in general.

In real life, Julia Roberts has not graduated from any university, which is why she claimed to have had a lot of emotions when they filmed the sequences in the class, who have seemed a nightmare because she is not used to support lectures in front of an audience and is not a good speaker: “It was my first experience at college. And the first time I had to speak before a class was like I had an attack of apoplexy. I found I needed to calm. It was very difficult. In fact, it was awful”.

Although she produced the television documentary “Extraordinary Moms” and the independent film “Jesus Henry Christ” and assiduously promoted the drama “Biutiful” Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu starring Javier Bardem, Julia Roberts said she has no intention ever stepping behind the camera, jokes that the only task that is capable of directing is the establishment of family mealtimes: “I direct the breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am proud of my skills in the kitchen, but I don’t intend to direct a film”.

Find out more about “Larry Crowne” from IMDB.

The director Shekhar Kapur (known for his motion pictures Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age) has just signed an agreement to carry out a biographical film on the life of the British explorer George Mallory, Julia Roberts will produce the project via her company Red Om Films in collaboration with Kevin Townsend of the Science + Fiction company.

The film will relate on the attempts of Mallory to conquer the Everest and the consequences which his obsession had on his marriage.

Mallory and Andrew Irvine, his climbing partner, are disappeared in 1924 whereas they tried to reach the top of the Everest. The bodies were found in 1999 by an American team at 8290 meters of altitude. We never succeeded to determine if Mallory really reached the top and if he died at the time of the descent. Two missing cameras could have cleared up this mystery. Experts from Kodak had estimated that in the event the discovery of one of the device with his film, they would be in measurement to develop it so as to produce images of printable quality. If Mallory really reached the top, he preceded Edmund Hillary of twenty-nine years.

Mallory is famous for his answer to the question: Why do you want to conquer the Mount Everest? He had quite simply answered: Because he is there.

The scenario was written by Townsend, Mark Skeet and Matthew Faulk.

The first trailer for the comedy Eat, Pray, Love, a film putting in the staring the beautiful Julia Roberts (recently seen in Valentine’s Day and Duplicity), is from now on available on the World Wide Web.

The feature film is the film adaptation of the memoir entitled Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. Originally, the story was written by Elizabeth Gilbert and published by Penguin in 2006 The project is adapted and carried out by Ryan Murphy, the creator of the Nip/Tuck series and the movie Running with Scissors.

Julia Roberts incarnates the author, a woman who has apparently all until she learns that it was not the life which she wants. After a painful divorce, she starts a trip around the world which will bring her to a better knowledge of herself.

The distribution is also made up of James Franco (Milk, Pineapple Express), Javier Bardem (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, No Country for Old Men), Viola Davis (Doub), Billy Crudup (Watchmen) and Richard Jenkins (Dear John, Step Brothers).

Eat, Pray, Love should be released on North-American screens on August 13rd.