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Valentine’s Day star Emma Roberts has revealed that she sometimes forgets that her aunt, Julia Roberts, is a world-famous Hollywood actress. In an interview with US magazine Foam, the 4321 star said that she only recently remembered how well-known her aunt is after flicking through a magazine and seeing the Pretty Woman star in a Lancôme ad.

“It made me stop and think,” she said. “You go, ‘Oh yeah. You’re not Aunt Julia to everyone. You’re Julia Roberts. That’s crazy’.” The 19-year-old actress, who has recently signed up to appear in Scream 4, appears on the August/September cover of the US magazine.

Inside, she opens up about being part of an acting dynasty that also includes another aunt, Lisa Roberts Gillian, and father Eric Roberts. “Everyone tried to steer me away from acting,” she says.
“Finally, my mother let me go on an audition for [movie] Blow to shut me up, and then I got the part.
“Luckily, my family has been really supportive.”

Roberts made her screen debut playing the daughter of Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz in the 2001 movie about a drug-smuggler. Roberts also spoke about visiting her aunt on the set of the 2001 romantic comedy America’s Sweethearts.
She said: “I was seven and in the background of one of the scenes, which was so much fun. It was just my aunt and me. We hung out a lot. “I got to meet Catherine Zeta-Jones, which I thought was the coolest.”
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