BOMBAY, India - Last year, Julia Roberts was in India to film "Eat Pray Love." She converted to Hinduism. Now back in the US, the pretty woman admits that Hinduism has always intrigued her.Along with husband, Danny Moder, and their three children -- twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and four-year-old Henry -- she often visits temples to chant, pray, and celebrate.
“My children love it. Hazel says that when she grows up, she’s going to live in India. To be in India is to experience it. You don’t have to go looking for India, it’s all right there. For me, visiting the country was an unforgettable experience,” Julia asserts.
Eat, Pray, Love [the book, not the movie] is memorable for other reasons too. Tom Hanks and Roberts had met at clubs and conversed,] “Hi! I’m famous, you’re famous, and there’s a camera on us now!” before being paired in Charlie Wilson’s War five years ago.
Then, when Julia was in Rome shooting "Eat Pray Love," Tom sent her a script with the message, “Tell me what you think of it.”
She couldn’t stop smiling as she went through it. “It says, ‘You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself.’ It creates a self-excavated Utopia and I love the message... More
