Overview

• Roberts appeared on the Lido for the first time to present After the Hunt in an out-of-competition slot at the Venice Film Festival.
• The film, directed by Luca Guadagnino, centers on the fallout from a sexual assault at a prestigious U.S. university.
• Roberts plays a German‑descended philosophy professor at Yale who encounters professional and personal pressures.
• At the press conference, she joked about her tightly packed schedule after arriving by water taxi to enthusiastic crowds.
• Festival buzz has been strong this week with Emma Stone promoting Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia and George Clooney returning to the red carpet for Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly after illness.