Julia Roberts In Coffee Commercial For Italian TV (VIDEO)

Julia Roberts returns to Italy - one of the scenes of her recent film 'Eat Pray Love' - in a recently released Italian television commercial for the coffee brand Lavazza. She plays an angel model in heaven, and must have been on cloud nine when she received her paycheck: a whopping $1.5 million for 46 seconds of screen time - and no spoken lines.

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[logic123]

01:05 PM on 12/02/2010

All she did was smile that strangely infamous smile. What an amazing world she must live in.

[MeasleeMillion]

12:39 PM on 12/02/2010

Smyrna, GA

[RasputinsLiver]

01:41 PM on 12/02/2010

Bugtussel, AR

[CrimsonIdol]

08:02 AM on 12/02/2010

She is so ugly, I've always thought she was a dog and never understood why anyone would think she was attractive, much less a "pretty woman".

[RasputinsLiver]

01:37 PM on 12/02/2010

Oh, she is to be sure. I think they invented the word "fugly" just to describe her.

[Puller58]

06:45 AM on 12/02/2010

Hollywooders have been doing this for years.  Outside of voiceovers, they won't dare do American commercials. Don't want to "dilute" the brand.

[vegalili]

02:48 AM on 12/02/2010

This is the equivalent to George Clooney and Malkovich for Nespresso

[grm1984]

12:42 AM on 12/02/2010

Remember when Julia Roberts was relevant? Now she's hawking coffee. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

[Puller58]

06:46 AM on 12/02/2010

This isn't a sign of career flameout.  Bigname stars have done foreign commercials for years.

[Sethj8888]

09:37 AM on 12/02/2010

Schwarznegger, Michael J Fox, Jodie Foster...the list is endless

[lippp]

12:52 PM on 12/02/2010

Perhaps this coffee commercial isn't, but her last flick, "Eat, Pray, Love" certainly could be.

[RasputinsLiver]

10:58 PM on 12/01/2010

Seeing her Joker-slash mothed mug would instantly turn me off of the product.

Yeearrgh!

[Puller58]

06:46 AM on 12/02/2010

But she does have a following.

[RasputinsLiver]

01:37 PM on 12/02/2010

So does Sarah Palin.

[TheBestPatriot]

10:19 PM on 12/01/2010

Cheeseball.

[SpaceboySD]

08:10 PM on 12/01/2010

Every time I see her she looks more and more like Edina Monsoon.

[truthisneeded]

05:57 PM on 12/01/2010

$1.5M for 45 seconds. Another proof that Italians probably love America, except W Bush.

And no Berlusconi is no friend of America. Berlusconi is a friend of Putin, a friend of Kaddafi a friend of W Bush and a friend of any corrupt politician who will play his corrupt game.

[Yoda103]

03:53 PM on 12/02/2010

You forgot to add he is also a mysogynist pig.

[truthisneeded]

05:53 PM on 12/01/2010

pretty awesome

[VeggieLove]

05:25 PM on 12/01/2010

I'm a terrible person because every time I see a pic of Julia Roberts I instantly feel the great desire to punch her smug face.

[truthisneeded]

05:54 PM on 12/01/2010

well that is a nice thing to say

[Lefty88]

07:02 PM on 12/01/2010

Nah, you're not a terrible person (based on your post). A terrible person would actually do the punching. That being said, you're not coming across as a terribly kind person, either. ;o)

On the serious side, I have big issues -- as do quite a few of us who struggle with monthly bills despite working our collective hiney off, I would imagine -- with people being paid something akin to the GNP of several small countries for doing next to nothing. Sports figures and actors...it's out of hand.

[dianal]

07:31 PM on 12/01/2010

It seems one can never have enough money...

[mediamarv]

04:43 PM on 12/01/2010

Back in the mid-80s Jodie Foster made one for coffee for the Japanese market. I was in another studio the day it was shot and the entire crew kept finding reasons to walk down the hall and try to peek in one of the backstage doors. Didn't work however, the ad agency had security all over the place.
More film stars than most people realize have done this... in fact, that's what Bill Murray was doing in the film "Lost in Translation."

[luisroman]

04:36 PM on 12/01/2010

You think, "How cynical, making a million bucks for less than a minute of screen time with no lines," you gripe about the cult of celebrity, and the unfairness of stars making all that money while millions of people are unemployed in this country . . . then you see that smile and, somehow, everything else is forgotten.

[yellowdoggie]

10:46 PM on 12/01/2010

Yes, and I even hear angels singing when I see her mug.

[RasputinsLiver]

11:01 PM on 12/01/2010

.

?!?!

.

[RasputinsLiver]

11:01 PM on 12/01/2010

You can't be serious?

With that Joker-slash mouth of hers?!

[Puller58]

06:51 AM on 12/02/2010

Face it, she has fans.

[AyeChart]

04:20 PM on 12/01/2010

Sometimes stars show up overseas making commercials.  It's not a bad gig.  Chelsea Field has found a better way to do things.  She went forward into the future in a time machine, had about 20 years taken off her appearance, and then returned as Amber Valletta to start a whole new career.

[SuperfluousD]

07:32 PM on 12/01/2010

Wow! Obscure!