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The "Pretty Woman" actress portrays an investigator whose
life is turned upside down when her daughter is found murdered.
The movie follows her years after the event, when Roberts'
character, Jess, is still visibly a broken woman.
Speaking at the film's premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday, the
actress said she lived the role.
"You just sort of feel that way all the time which is the
trick," Roberts told Reuters. "I just felt that once I got ready
I was halfway there."
"Secret in Their Eyes" also stars Nicole Kidman and "12 Years a
Slave" actor Chiwetel Ejiofor.
The movie, directed by Billy Ray, is a remake of the 2009
Argentinean film "El Secreto de Sus Ojos" by Juan Jose
Campanella, which won an Academy Award in the Best Foreign
Language category.
Campanella is an executive producer in this film.
"He was telling this very lyrical love story and I think we were
making much more of a thriller," Ray said when asked how the two
movies differed.
"We were making this very intense movie about the cost of
obsession and that it expresses itself in a very different way
in what Juan Campanella expressed it."
"Secret in Their Eyes" is released in U.S. cinemas on Nov. 20.
(Reporting By Reuters Television in Los Angeles; Writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian in London; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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