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When it comes to iconic women in Hollywood, there are few bigger than Julia Roberts. She came to most people’s attention in the late 1980s with a string of back-to-back-to-back hits, the 1988 comedy “Mystic Pizza,” 1989’s tearjerker “Steel Magnolias” and the 1990 rom-com “Pretty Woman.”
Alas, while SNL brought on the likes of Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, and Rob Lowe in those years, Roberts was nowhere to be found but the big screen. She led the 1991 thriller, “Sleeping with the Enemy,” played Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg’s “Hook,” and later won her lone Academy Award for her performance in “Erin Brockovich.” But despite hit after hit, Roberts avoided “SNL.”
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Unlike most on this list, we know why Roberts has been a no-show. “I grew up watching ‘Saturday Night Live’ in the ’70s, early ’80s … it always intimidated me how funny and clever that show is,” she told Extra TV’s Mario Lopez in 2017. “So when I was asked to do it, long, long ago, I always said no because I was just too afraid … too afraid to blow it.” But Roberts hasn’t closed the door to hosting entirely: “I haven’t gotten a call from Lorne Michaels [lately] so we’ll see if that ever happens.”
