Julia Roberts, 'After the Hunt' Team Tell All: It's Not a #MeToo Movie Julia Roberts, 'After the Hunt' Team Tell All: It's Not a #MeToo Movie Plus Icon Film Julia Roberts landed at the Venice Film Festival wrapped up in her director.
Drawn to excess, emotional extremes and lush, decadent photography, Guadagnino is fueled by passion. So is Roberts, and that’s made her one of our most enduring movie stars — and inspired their collaboration as cinematic soulmates.
In “After the Hunt,” Guadagnino and Roberts team up on one of the most boundary-pushing stories of the year, revolving around a rape accusation on a college campus.
In an era when #BelieveWomen has been the defiant stance, “After the Hunt” doesn’t necessarily side with the alleged victim. Popular on Variety In the film, Roberts plays Alma Olsson, a philosophy professor at Yale who has little in common with the inspiring lecturer she portrayed two decades ago in “Mona Lisa Smile.” Cold, isolated and suffering from chronic pain, Alma finds herself in the middle of a scandal when her favorite student, Maggie (played by Ayo Edebiri, the Emmy-winning star of “The Bear”), accuses another professor, Hank (Andrew Garfield), of sexual assault after he walked her home from a party.
As Maggie’s complaint plays out — potentially derailing the careers of multiple faculty members — Alma drifts away from her husband, Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg), and her friend Kim (Chloë Sevigny), a psychiatrist on…
Published: September 18, 2025 3:00 pm
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