Julia Roberts gets emotional while reflecting on 'Erin Brockovich'

Julia Roberts got emotional while looking back at her role in the 2000 biopic Erin Brockovich, while also paying a heartfelt tribute to her late co-star Albert Finney.

During her appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the 58-year-old actress admitted that working with the English actor was one of the best parts of making the film.

"You're determined to make me cry," she said to the 61-year-old host, "When I think about that movie, you know, I do think about Albert."

Finney, who died in 2019 at the age of 82, earned an Oscar nomination for playing as Ed Masry in the film.

The Pretty Woman actress described the film’s production as unusually easy and joyful, even amidst intense subject matter.

"It was so easy, that movie. Everybody was so easy. There was just a flow. The days were great, and it was just a job that felt very kind to the inside of me," she recalled. 

She painted a picture of the cast staying at a Holiday Inn in a small town, laughing over popcorn and having a good time. 

"Steven Soderbergh, our director, would bring movies sometimes for us to all go watch because there was really not a lot for us to do on the weekends."

Continuing, "And he had Animal House one weekend, and he had the movie poster, it was like, you walked in and you were transported, it was so fun."

Roberts recalled how Albert then came in a bedsheet made like a toga, telling everyone, "I thought it was a thing. I thought that we were all gonna do this.'"

Adding that he "looked great," the Notting Hill actress further said, "And I would have just walked across the parking lot maybe changed. Albert just sat down with his popcorn and, there we were."