Overview

• Roberts described an informal prep at her Malibu home where Luca Guadagnino, Ayo Edebiri and producer Allan Mandelbaum gathered around her kitchen table.
• After being told Sevigny would arrive in minutes, Roberts told Guadagnino she was “afraid,” with Edebiri echoing the feeling.
• Roberts said her daughter, Hazel Moder, briefly slipped out “through the garage” when the doorbell rang because she was starstruck.
• Sevigny praised Roberts and said she watched several of Roberts’ movies after filming because she “needed more Julia.”
• Guadagnino’s drama recently debuted in Venice with Roberts, Sevigny, Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Michael Stuhlbarg, exploring friends caught up in a sexual-assault incident.