Eric Roberts was unimpressed by sister Julia Roberts’ performance in ‘Steel Magnolias,’ and said ‘nobody was great’ in the 1989 film

Julia was good in ‘Mystic Pizza,’ great in ‘Pretty Woman,’ but not so much in ‘Steel Magnolias,'” Eric Roberts writes in his new memoir. “Nobody’s great in

Eric Roberts is apologizing to sister Julia Roberts in his new memoir, “Runaway Train,” after he made comments taking credit for her illustrious and Oscar-winning career. As Eric infamously told Vanity Fair in 2018: “If it wasn’t for me,

"I don’t want to sound like an actor talking, or a jealous sibling, but I don’t think her performance held up in that movie," he said.

Eric Roberts has shared his brutal opinion of his sister Julia Roberts’s early role in Steel Magnolias arguing that her performance did not hold up in the movie. The 1989 romcom adapted from Robert Harling’s stage play about a group of Southern women who come together following the loss of one of their own starred Julia alongside Sally Field,