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Julia Roberts Keeping Low Profile Since Surprise Wedding
Aired July 11, 2002 - 11:42 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Pretty woman Julia Roberts is keeping a low profile since her surprise 4th of July wedding. The Oscar-winning actress married cameraman Danny Moder at her 40-acre spread just outside Taos, New Mexico. Details about the midnight wedding have been as sparse as the New Mexico terrain, but leave it to the "People" magazine for the Julia scoop. The bride, in complete wedding attire, is the magazine cover, and the cover story this week. The issue is out tomorrow.
We are going to give you an advance peek here, courtesy of Larry Hackett, "People's" assistant managing editor, joining us from New York.
Larry, good morning.
LARRY HACKETT, ASST. MANAGING EDITOR, "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE: Good morning, Daryn, how are you?
KAGAN: I'm doing great. And was very interested to look through this advance copy of the article this morning. Number one, Julia wore shoes.
HACKETT: She did. When she got married to Lyle Lovett in 1993 or so, she went barefoot. So this was a concession to getting older I guess, a little more formality. She had flat sandals on.
KAGAN: A little more formality. But also what is interesting from what you guys are reporting, here is a multimillion dollar top star. She could have had any wedding that she wanted, but this was kind of a low-key affair. In fact, her guest probably didn't even know they were coming to a wedding.
HACKETT: Her guests didn't know. She had told about 50 or 60 relatives and friends, very close folks, to come to her ranch outside Taos for a barbecue...
KAGAN: For 4th of July, yes, that makes sense.
HACKETT: And the invitation said the same thing, no hint of a wedding. In fact, as the day wore on, she baked a turkey, and they were playing football and shooting pool, and people were getting a little tired and wanted to go to bed; some had kids. And she was saying said no, no, no, stick around, stay up, stick around, have another drink. And then about midnight or so, she shuttled everybody off to a corner of her property next to something called a "morado (ph)," which is a Spanish style house of worship, and set up there, where these billowing sheets of pink and white fabric, and they came walking in. Folks were all gathered around, and Danny Moder got down on one knee and said, Julia, in front of everyone that we love, will you marry me, and she clutched her heart very theatrically and said, yes, yes, yes, and all the guests said yes, yes, yes, and it was really only then that most of the folks there realized that they were reaction (ph) on the wedding of the number one movie star in the world.
KAGAN: Wow, and again, it's no flower girls, no bridesmaids, no groomsman, no celebrity guest, just like 50 or 60 of their closest friends and family.
HACKETT: Nothing like that. That's correct. The only celebrity showed up was the next day Bruce Willis, who she's known for years, turned up a at the barbecue that they did in fact have, but very low key. It just was not -- this wasn't Catherine Zeta Jones, or Michael Douglass or anything like that; she wanted to do it quietly. We call it a stealth wedding in the magazine. That's really what it was.
KAGAN: You did that. Now you can see at least from the top of the dress that she wore, and interesting she didn't wear white. Maybe that's appropriate, but she wore pink.
HACKETT: That's right. It was a pale pink dress with pearls and embroidered antique beads on it, hand-painted flowers, made by a designer named Judith Folarian (ph), who frankly, no one has ever heard of. She is based in Los Angeles. We tried all of our fashion estes (ph) and they didn't know anything about her, but Julia knew her, liked her. She also designed Danny's shirt, which is a red ruffled shirt. He only wore and a pair of slacks, no coat, but I think this designer's probably going to be getting more business now.
KAGAN: Yes, I think so.
Now let's talk about this guy. Poor Julia has been the subject of so many, and you know, your magazines include a mess of people who have covered her love life, her successes and her many failures over the years. Why is this the guy that captured her heart?
HACKETT: From all of the accounts we have from talking to friends of hers and people who are close to her, they are very simpatico. He's a guy like her, likes to hang out very casually. Julia being a number one movie star, has to do the red carpet stuff, and has go to premiers, but by all indications, when you see her in real life, she doesn't really enjoy that kind of thing. I mean, I don't want it say hippy, but maybe neo-hippy.
And they like to hang out. They don't spend a lot of time in New York, where she has a home, or where she used to spend a lot of time. They like to hang out in L.A., where he has a home, in Taos, where she has a ranch, and they obviously had a real sort of melding of the hearts. They're very, very similar people. Despite the fact she is a massive movie star, she likes a much more casual, laid back life. He does, too. And after only a year or so of being together, they decided it was time to get hitched.
KAGAN: Her most recent former love Benjamin Bratt is in "Vanity Fair" magazine this month, talking about just the incredible fame that this woman has to live with, how it's something unlike -- pretty much something he didn't want to live with, and how difficult it is to live that life. I guess for Danny Moder, that's not that big of a problem.
HACKETT: It's not. His father is a movie producer, which of course was nothing near the level of fame that Julia has. But he's been in the business for a long time, and people who know them say, he knows this, he can deal with it. He understands it is part of who she is. She has do what she has do to be a movie star, and he can handle it. So we will wait and see if that's the case.
Indeed, she has not -- unlike when she was with Benjamin, who did appear with her, obviously, on the red carpets and premiers and was a star in his own right, this relationship has been very low key. I mean, I have not heard this man speak before, and she has kept it that way, on purpose. She made it very clear after her breakup with Bratt that she did not want to live her private life in public.
Now it's inevitable that you have if you're a movie star, to some extent, but she's been pretty successful at keeping this relationship, well, private.
KAGAN: Well, maybe some lessons learned, and let's wish them well, and hopefully all you have to write about for them is all the babies they're going to have from hear on out, and nothing but happiness.
HACKETT: Absolutely.
Thank you so much, Larry Hackett from "People" magazine.
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