Julia Roberts is apparently just as skilled in the kitchen as she is on screen — at least if you ask her After The Hunt co-stars Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri.
According to reports from Page Six, who caught up with the cast during a screening of their new film at the 63rd annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center on Friday, the cast talk turned to Roberts’ famous banana bread.
“I would say, I don’t know, [it’s in] the first percentile,” exclaimed Edebiri, 29. Garfield, 42, backed her up, claiming it belongs in the top “.5 percentile.”
Roberts smiled quietly as her co-stars sang her praises.
The outlet went on to confirm one key detail: Roberts skips the cream cheese topping — though Garfield and Edebiri insisted her banana bread is so delicious it doesn’t need it.
Her baking chops aren’t exactly a secret. In a recent interview with Variety, director Luca Guadagnino revealed Roberts is “an incredible cook. She does an amazing salmon, but she also does an incredible banana bread.”
The Queer filmmaker added that when he stayed with Roberts last year, he took one of her banana breads to the airport. Lounge staff, he said, raved about it, calling it “very beautiful,” and were even “starstruck” when they learned who had made it.
Meanwhile, After The Hunt itself is drawing attention for its timely narrative centered on the #MeToo movement. Roberts, 57, stars as a Yale philosophy professor who is pulled into scandal when her top student (Edebiri) accuses another professor (Garfield) of sexual assault.
The cast has already made headlines on the festival circuit — most notably in Venice, where Edebiri was awkwardly left out of a press question about the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, an exchange that quickly went viral.