Busy Philipps cut to the heart of a hairy situation on Sunday when she interviewed Julia Roberts on her new show, âBusy Tonight.â
Philipps grilled the âPretty Womanâ star about the unshaved armpits she showed off at the 1999 premiere of her movie, âNotting Hill,â in London.
Some people thought Roberts was making a feminist statement â or was doing it for her boyfriend at the time, Benjamin Bratt. Roberts, however, revealed all these years later that it was simply a red carpet faux pas.
âThe picture is vivid in my mind actually from that moment,â Roberts told Philipps.
âIt wasnât â think I just hadnât really calculated my sleeve length and the waving, and how those two things would go together and reveal personal things about me,â she said, miming the waving from the now-infamous moment.
âSo it wasnât so much a statement as itâs just part of the statement I make as a human on the planet, for myself,â Roberts added with a smile.
The talk-show host seemed disappointed by Robertsâ admission, saying she had thought hairy armpits were a statement and believed âit was like really punk rock and cool.â
Itâs unclear if Robertsâ will bring back her underarm hair to the red carpet, but she said sheâs thinking about reprising one of her most popular movie roles.
While sheâd love to give âPretty Womanâ another go, sheâs also been thinking about a sequel to âMy Best Friendsâ Wedding.â
âI guess I think maybe itâs just because weâre talking about Dermot [Mulroney]. But Rupert [Everett] was so funny in âMy Best Friendâs Wedding,ââ she told Entertainment Weekly in October, before imagining what the follow-up would look like.
âI guess Kimmy (Cameron Diaz) and Michael (Mulroney) are married and they probably have kids. And then thereâs me and Rupert,â said Roberts, who stars in the new Amazon series âHomecoming.â
Someone start writing this script, ASAP.