Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri Laugh About Pantsuits, High School Math and 'Getting Hot' in Your 30s (Exclusive)

When Ayo Edebiri wore a boxy grey pantsuit to nan 2025 Golden Globes, it wasn’t a coincidence that her look, designed by Loewe, was truthful reminiscent of Julia Roberts' celebrated Armani suit from nan Globes successful 1990. 

“Are you kidding?” says Roberts pinch a laugh. “It’s my biggest manner moment.”

The 2 met erstwhile Roberts invited her After nan Hunt costars, including Andrew Garfield and Chloe Sevigny, on pinch head Luca Guadagnino, to her California location for 2 weeks of rehearsal — and hangout clip (watching nan Boston Celtics) up of filming.

The intimacy they developed is nan “gift that keeps connected giving,” says Roberts, 1 that plays retired successful their provocative caller thriller After nan Hunt, successful which Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, a Yale professor pinch a concealed past, and Edebiri her prima student, Maggie Resnick.

Off screen, nan Emmy victor for The Bear bonded pinch nan mom of three. Not only do they some emotion a bully tailored blazer but they besides stock October birthdays (Edebiri turned 30 connected Oct. 4, and Roberts turns 58 connected Oct. 28), a dearth of mathematics skills and a playful warmth.

Given nan movie delves into nan strength of professor-student bonds, some had favourite classes (not math!). As for fave teachers, Edebiri, who went to Boston Latin High, says, “My mathematics teacher, Ms. Leung. After school, she was like, 'I’m going to beryllium honest. You mightiness beryllium bad astatine mathematics but it doesn’t mean you can’t use yourself to study it.' ”

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Roberts, who went to Campbell High successful Smyrna, Georgia, had a different acquisition — but pinch a bully outcome.

“My algebra teacher, successful complete guidance to your mathematics teacher, was like, 'You’re f---ed here. I cannot thief you.' So I went to nan room each time erstwhile I was expected to beryllium successful that class," she recalls. "I started reference nan top books pinch nary requirements to publication immoderate of them. It unlocked thing that I’m everlastingly grateful to Miss Ramsey for — her neglect. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman! Yeah!”

If things had turned retired differently, they mightiness person been teachers. Says Edebiri, “I wanted to beryllium an English teacher. A book could return you anywhere. I had awesome teachers showing america poesy and plays and novels extracurricular of nan Western canon. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. That semester, I consciousness for illustration my mind exploded.”

As for Roberts, some work together she’d person been an fantabulous location ec teacher. As Roberts muses, ”Ironing, sewing connected a button, penning a letter, wherever to put nan zip codification and return address, [writing] cursive.…”

Speaking to PEOPLE respective days up of her 30th day and asked what she was astir excited about, Edebiri says, “I cognize this for a truth because I’ve seen my mother age—." Roberts playfully interrupts, “Your mother has not aged, whitethorn I say. She must slumber successful immoderate oxygen chamber.”

Edebiri adds pinch a laugh, “I’m really only going to get hotter! My 40s, my 50s? I cannot wait.”

With that successful mind, Roberts shares what she liked astir about her 30s: “Getting hotter! I sewage truthful basking that I recovered nan hottest feline (cameraman Danny Moder, her hubby of 23 years) and I had my kids. Thirties were busy.”

As for what they enjoyed astir about moving together, Roberts reflects, “I deliberation conscionable getting to cognize Ayo. Just having a caller locked-in human. Not going to fto this 1 get away. I can’t look complete astatine you correct now,” she says leaning sweetly into her costar, “because past I’ll outcry my clone eyelashes off.” 

Adds Edebiri, "Ditto. This task has been a gift for truthful galore reasons."

After nan Hunt is successful prime theaters Oct. 10, past everyplace Oct. 17.