By Paul Chi

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Edebiri has been praised on social media for how she handled the awkward interview. Roberts, meanwhile, showed support for her costar in the moment, appearing shocked when Polidoro first asked the question and replying, “Can you repeat that? And with your sunglasses on, I can’t tell which of us you’re talking to.”
In Venice, Roberts had already gone viral for another moment of camaraderie: when she arrived at the festival wearing a playfully irreverent cardigan emblazoned with After the Hunt director Luca Guadagnino’s face. “I have to give a lot of credit to [stylist] Elizabeth Stewart, ’cause we hatched this plan a while ago,” Roberts told Vanity Fair at a Veuve Clicquot and Jacquemus dinner party in New York on Tuesday. “I love to do things like that during a press tour, wear clothes with my cast mates’ and directors’ faces on them to show my love and appreciation. I like to have fun and mix it up, and not be serious all the time.”
Her custom, cable-knit garment was a hit with the Italian auteur. “Luca was super chuffed by it,” Roberts said. “He’s so fashion driven and he’s so design oriented, so I was really happy that he was really chuffed.”
Venice isn’t the only place Roberts has shown support for a colleague through method dressing. At the 2022 Kennedy Center Honors, she paid sartorial tribute to her Ticket to Paradise costar and longtime friend George Clooney by wearing a one-of-a-kind Jeremy Scott–designed Moschino gown adorned with framed photos of the actor. “I’m waiting for his daughter to turn 16 so I can get it out of my closet and put it in hers,” Roberts said. “I hope she will like wearing it as much as I did.”
After the Hunt is polarizing, drawing strong reactions from early viewers. “It’s exciting that people are talking about the film,” said Roberts, who plays a professor weighing a fraught sexual assault accusation in the drama. “Luca is such a master storyteller, and what he’s brilliantly done is taking a group of people and creating an environment that’s kind of like an academia powder keg. He fills up the small space with so much story and detail that it’s meant to stir up different opinions, feelings and points of view.”
Roberts gets to show a new side in the film as she takes on a dark, thought-provoking role. “What I look for in a movie hasn’t really changed, but I feel like it’s one of those things that as you get older, you just know so much more, and you just have so much more to offer,” she said. “You have more to draw from and to create from, so it’s the best of times, really, in my career right now.”
Roberts took a brief break from her press tour on Tuesday night, reuniting with her niece Emma Roberts at the Central Park Boathouse for an opulent dinner hosted by the Champagne house Veuve Clicquot and designer Simon Porte Jacquemus. Seated across from each other at the “picnic on the water”-themed party, the two were in deep conversation throughout the multi-course feast that celebrated the two French brands as they collaborate on a new limited edition bottle of La Grande Dame 2018. This blend honors Madame Clicquot, the businesswoman who took over and expanded her late husband’s Champagne business in 1805 and developed revolutionary Champagne-making techniques, including the invention of the first blended rosé Champagne.
Like Madame Clicquot, Roberts has left her mark on culture. But what’s been the main ingredient to her enduring career? “The key for anyone is just relying on each other. Not thinking you have to do everything by yourself. That’s what my mom taught me,” Roberts said. “You really do have to be there for each other, and not think that you can do everything on your own, cause it’s impossible. Even for her, Madame Clicquot—she was such a pioneer, and at the same time I’m sure she had a sisterhood that was cheering her on and supporting her. The key for anyone is just relying on each other.”