" Pretty Woman" star Julia
Roberts walked the red carpet on Friday to promote her first
television series, Amazon Studios' "Homecoming," at the Toronto
International Film Festival.
Roberts, 50, is the latest major Hollywood star to
transition to television, joining the likes of Jane Fonda, Meryl
Streep and John Travolta. Many like Roberts have signed on to
shows by streaming services like Amazon and Netflix,
which are drawing audiences away from traditional television.
Roberts shrugged off the attention her switch to the small
screen has garnered.
"It's all the same," she told reporters on the Toronto red
carpet. "It's all heart, it's all challenging and it's all
fulfilling."
The psychological thriller, based on an eponymous podcast,
stars Roberts as Heidi Bergman, a caseworker employed at a
secret government facility in a program called Homecoming that
is meant to help veterans returning from war transition into
civilian life.
The narrative jumps between the character's time at
Homecoming and a future when Roberts plays a waitress at a
diner, unable to recall much of her time at the program.
The first four episodes screened at the festival show
sinister goings-on that hint at Homecoming not being the
benevolent program it purports to be.
"It's a mystery, it's a thriller," director Sam Esmail told
the audience following the screening. "There are very big
questions, and hopefully what we know by the end of the series
will have answered all those questions.
"At the end of the day, this is about people," he said.
"This is about how they connect with one another, how they
disconnect with one another."
The show will debut on Amazon on November, 2.