Julia Roberts has said she’s relieved that she rose to fame when she did and not nowadays - because there is too much pressure on young stars.

The Erin Brockovich star recently labelled the state of Hollywood today as “just grotesque”: “It’s like a circus sideshow. I don’t know why anybody would even want to go into show business these days, with all of the different magazines and shows. It just wouldn’t be worth it.”

“It’s too fast. Before, you could build a career over years and many movies. Now it’s like you do one good movie and they throw a ton of money at you and a ton of attention at you.”

“You’re being constructed outside of yourself before you even know who you are, and what you are, and how you want to do it, and why you want to do it.”