Julia Roberts says her romantic-comedy hiatus was not through choice

Julia Roberts says her rom-com hiatus was not through choice (Ian West/PA)

Julia Roberts says it is not through choice that she has failed to appear in a traditional romantic comedy for more than 20 years.

The Oscar-winning actress said she needed to find a script that was the same level of “madcap fun” as the rom-coms in which she starred in the 1990s.