Julia Roberts Addresses The Great Banana Bread Scandal Of 2025

Hey everybody, we're back here with Julia Roberts. Okay, you gotta settle something for us. There's been a lot of chatter in the building about this one. And I know, like, you know, tabloids, and you don't care about tabloids and stuff like that. But there's a tabloid, I mean, something of a scandal going on with you right now. And this was in the New York Post. Is this a setup? Is this a lie? What? I'm so nervous right now. Do you, do you, wait a second. Do you consider jokes setup lies? Is that what you... Steven, would you please stop lying through your monologue? Okay, wait. Can we just talk about everything that happened before I got here? What do you mean? Like... Sexy cow? Pornographic recurrn? I didn't, hey, I don't know what graphics is gonna put up. I was just as shocked as you are, young lady. I don't think so. Well, I'm from a nice southern family too. Okay. Yeah, I didn't know... It's your show. It's your name. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Think of the shame I've brought on my family. Well, last past May. Exactly. They're gonna yank me at this pace. So yes, it's a lie. Okay. This is a setup. There's no real tabloid scandal. No, thank God. Okay. Because I don't read a lot of stuff. No, do you read about yourself? Well, and right now, who wants to read the news? I don't, but it's in the job description. I got no choice. Has the government shut me down? What? Women in general, they're trying. Well... Page six has confirmed. This is the New York Post. Page six has confirmed. This has to do with your banana bread recipe. This is funny. Page six has confirmed that Roberts does not add cream cheese topping to her banana bread. They insist, it's so good, it doesn't need it. Julia Roberts, at long last, can you confirm the salacious page six gossip that you forgo cream cheese on your banana bread? Is this true? Is this true, madam, at long last? First of all, nothing makes me feel like more of a badass than just people talking about my banana bread recipe. Never felt cooler. And is cream cheese on banana bread a thing? I don't think of it. It's not a thing. I do not think of it. No, no, no. It's not a thing. One person, like, said, do you put cream cheese on it? And I said, doesn't need it. And that's... Oh, and now you seem like... And there it is. And that banner headline. Oh, somebody's too good for cream cheese on their banana bread. Oh, she doesn't need it. By the way, I'll give you this before you leave. This is, my wife and I have a cookbook called Does This Taste Funny? And we have a banana bread recipe in here that I want to share with you later. Let's have a banana bread-off. Oh, again. I mean, a nice one. Again, before... I'm New Yorkers. Like the Lords of Flatbush. Yes, exactly. Again, before May. Before May, okay. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Erin Brockovich, still beloved by everybody. What stands out to you? When you think about making that film, what stands out to you? Albert Finney? Yeah. Albert Finney. Well, you're determined to make me cry. Yeah. That's the job, comedy. Lies and crying, that's comedy. I... You know, when I think about that movie, I do think about Albert. I think about... It was... I don't want to make it seem like... Like it's not... Like I... It doesn't require an enormous amount of effort to do acting. Me didn't go to college. But it was so easy, that movie. Everybody was so easy. There was just a flow. The days were great. And it was just a job that just felt very kind to the inside of me. And Albert was surely part of it. Steven Soderbergh. We were in a tiny town filming. We were all living at the Holiday Inn for a long extended period of time. And it was hot. And in the center of this big parking lot where the Holiday Inn was, was a one-screen movie theater. And it's the kind of movie theater that when I was a kid, we would call it the sticky-shoe theater. Like the cheaper theater that you go to and as you walk in, you're just... Right? And Steven Soderbergh, our director, would bring movies sometimes for us to all go watch because there was really not a lot for us to do on the weekends. And he had Animal House one weekend. And he had the movie poster. It was like you walked in, you were transported. It was so fun. And Albert showed up in his bed sheet with... Oh, toga, toga. And he was like, I thought it was a thing. I thought we were all going to do this. And he looked great. And he just, like, I would have just walked across the parking lot, maybe changed. Albert just sat down with his popcorn and there we were. Julia, thank you so much for being here. Lovely to see you again. After the Hunt is in theaters October 10th. Julie Roberts, everybody. We'll be right back with a performance by Sam Smith. Stick around.