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01 July,2011 09:51 AM IST |   |  Special Features

It's not easy to face a crowd. Actor Julia Roberts found this out the hard way. Playing a speech professor in her upcoming film


It's not easy to face a crowd. Actor Julia Roberts found this out the hard way. Playing a speech professor in her upcoming film, Julia tells CS about her panic attack when she had to face a classroom full of students.
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"This was my first college experience. And the first time I had to speak in front of a classroom, I was apoplectic. I had all these faces looking up at me, thinking 'what is she going to teach us?'

It was very hard; in fact, it was terrible. I wanted to ask Tom Hanks why he thought of me when he wanted to cast someone for the role of a drunken schoolteacher, she exclaims. Well Julia, that's probably because you're a class apart.

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Julia Roberts face panic classroom students