Julia Roberts Says Her First Time Filming with Andrew Garfield for “After the Hunt” Left Her 'Sweating'

Julia Roberts was taken pinch Andrew Garfield's talent correct distant connected nan group of their caller movie After nan Hunt.

Speaking pinch ABC News' Diane Sawyer for an question and reply that aired connected Good Morning America Wednesday, Oct. 8, nan Academy Award victor recalled a peculiarly aggravated series that they filmed during Garfield's first time connected set.

"First take, [Andrew] conscionable blows successful and has this awesome scene," said Roberts, 57. "And you know, it’s a agelong segment and past it’s over. You know, ‘Cut.' "

Her response? "I was conscionable like, 'Whoa, I’m sweating,' " nan character said.

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Roberts stars successful After nan Hunt arsenic a Yale professor named Alma, who is caught successful a master and individual predicament erstwhile her favourite student (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her workfellow and friend Hank (Garfield, 42) of battle pursuing a societal gathering astatine Alma's residence.

"It's been really specified a beautiful point to beryllium adjacent to Ayo, who I really respect and adore, and to perceive to nan words she chooses, and nan measurement that she sees nan world and this movie," Roberts told Sawyer, 79, of The Bear prima Edebiri, 30.

Roberts' enslaved pinch Garfield goes past their scenes together successful After nan Hunt. During a Sept. 26 property convention pursuing a screening of nan Luca Guadagnino-directed psychological thriller astatine nan New York Film Festival, nan character joked that she considers Garfield her therapist aft he collapsed down nan meaning down nan film's cardinal storyline.

"That's wherever it gets really difficult and nosy and breathtaking and horrible," he said, speaking to his performance. "And nan only measurement we get to nan healing, I deliberation for each of us, is by walking done each of those benignant of 2nd furniture materials, for illustration those unconscious materials, those unconscious drives."

"Because underneath that is nan benignant of interconnectedness of everything arsenic acold arsenic I'm concerned, but nan only measurement done is to spell down done each of that horrible mishegoss that we each collectively share," Garfield added.

"Don't you want Andrew to beryllium your therapist?" Roberts quipped successful response. "Because he's my therapist, and I consciousness great."

Elsewhere during nan aforesaid property conference, Roberts said to playing an unlikeable lead character, explaining, "Everything that is natural to Alma is unnatural to me arsenic a human."

"And truthful it was absorbing trying to find ways into that," she added.

After nan Hunt is successful theaters Friday, Oct. 10.