Eric Roberts give thumbs down to Julia Roberts’ star turn in ‘Steel Magnolias’

Eric Roberts is sharing his long-held sentiment of sister Julia Roberts’ aboriginal acting roles — and his sentiment is not positive.

In his precocious released memoir “Runaway Train,” the erstwhile ’80s heartthrob weighs successful connected his A-list sibling’s breakthrough relation successful “Steel Magnolias,” the 1989 rom-com for which she garnered her archetypal Oscar nomination.

“Julia was bully successful ‘Mystic Pizza,’ large successful ‘Pretty Woman,’ but not truthful overmuch successful ‘Steel Magnolias,’ successful my opinion, adjacent though it brought Julia her archetypal Academy Award nomination,” helium writes.

“I don’t privation to dependable similar an histrion talking, oregon a jealous sibling, but I don’t deliberation her show held up successful that movie,” Roberts says. “When I saw her successful ‘Steel Magnolias,’ I thought … ‘She’s astir a bully actor, and 1 time she’s gonna beryllium one.’”

Based connected Robert Harling’s signifier play of the aforesaid name, the beloved movie centers connected a radical of women successful Louisiana who travel unneurotic pursuing the decease of 1 of their own. Along with Julia Roberts, it besides stars heavy-hitters Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Olympia Dukakis, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah.

“Nobody’s large successful that movie,” the older Roberts opines. “They each chewed a batch of scenery, and we cognize that if an histrion cries connected film, they spell to the apical of the class. They get the Oscar motion due to the fact that crying gets a batch of credit. It’s the large gag successful each acting classes.”

For her relation arsenic Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie, Julia Roberts received an Academy Award information for Best Supporting Actress.

Her large member says 1 crushed the 19-year-old earned the Oscar motion was “her authenticity arsenic a sweet, small-town Southern girl.”

“That’s what she was, aft all, oregon astatine slightest that’s however she started off,” helium says. “I don’t cognize if she had a dialect manager effort to eradicate her Southern accent, but if so, luckily for her it didn’t take.”

The 2 siblings person ne'er worked unneurotic successful immoderate film. While Eric has consistently worked successful lower-level fare — prevention for a fewer smash hits, including The Dark Knight  — Julia became a Hollywood darling.

With the container bureau occurrence of “Pretty Woman,” “Sleeping With the Enemy” and “My Best Friend’s Wedding” passim the 1990s, she yet went connected to triumph the Oscar for Best Actress successful 2000’s “Erin Brockovich.”