Red Nose Day: Julia Roberts Reveals Her Hollywood Secret in Hilarious Sketch
By Cathy Rainone ••
Julia Roberts showed her support for the first U.S. version of Britain's Nose Day by revealing a shocking secret: her real voice is very low and hoarse.
"There's not doubt she's a brilliant actress...but she has what I would describe as a unique voice," fellow actress and director Jodie Foster says in a hilarious "Hollywood Secrets" sketch that debuted during the Red Nose Day telecast Thursday on NBC. "It's not what I would associate with a Hollywood leading lady," adds Foster.
Roberts' former castmates Hugh Bonneville ("Notting Hill") and Richard Gere ("Pretty Woman") expressed "shock" at Roberts' natural voice.
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Seth Meyers helped introduce the Red Nose Day charity telecasts, where celebrities, actors, and musicians came together to get funny for a good cause and raise money to help children in poverty worldwide. Click through for more photos, and go to RedNoseDay.org to donate.
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Seth Meyers onstage at NBC's "Red Nose Day" Charity Event at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, NY on May 21, 2015.
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Seth Meyers and the announcers from "Pitch Perfect" got funny for a good cause for the Red Nose Day charity telecast, raising money for children's charities.
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Olivia Wilde onstage.
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Kellan Lutz got naked to encourage donations during the Red Nose Day charity telecast.
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Olivia Wilde told attendees about the different charities that donations will be going towards during the Red Nose Day telecast.
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The numbers to donate to children's charities appear behind Seth Meyers onstage at NBC's "Red Nose Day" Charity Event.
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Seth Meyers onstage at NBC's "Red Nose Day" Charity Event.
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Gwyneth Paltrow made a dramatic entrance, rappelling through the roof to join Seth Meyers onstage during the Red Nose Day charity telecast raising money for children in poverty around the world.
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Seth Meyers and Gwyneth Paltrow onstage at NBC's "Red Nose Day."
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Savannah Guthrie, Seth Meyers, and Matt Lauer onstage at NBC's "Red Nose Day" Charity Event. Lauer biked from Boston to New York to raise money for children's charities.
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Gwyneth Paltrow rappelled through the ceiling, but got stuck, setting up the next segment while in mid-air.
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Hellen Mirren made a brief appearance and served tea at NBC's "Red Nose Day" Charity Event.
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Sawyer Fredericks, winner of the most recent season of "The Voice," sang "Imagine" by John Lennon.
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Josh Groban appears onstage at NBC's "Red Nose Day."
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Billy Eichner from "Billy on the Street" shows the grand total he raised from randomly soliciting cash from strangers with Martin Short during the Red Nose Day charity telecast.
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Jeff Dye, Cheryl Burke, Nicole Scherzinger, Nick Cannon, and Josh Groban appear onstage at NBC's "Red Nose Day" Charity Event.
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RED NOSE DAY -- Season: 1 -- Pictured: Sawyer Fredericks performs onstage at NBC's "Red Nose Day" Charity Event at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, NY on May 21, 2015 -- (Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC)
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Elisabeth Moss talks about charities helping homeless children.
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Al Roker reveals how much money was raised thus far during Red Nose Day.
"They re-voice me in every movie I do, which makes me absolutely furious," Roberts revealed. "What is going on?"
But the "August: Osage County" wasn't the only actor who (jokingly) admitted to having a voice that audiences would not recognise. Also exposed as having terrible timbres were Liam Neeson, Robert's other "Notting Hill" co-star Hugh Grant and 007 actor Daniel Craig. Check out the video above.
Other celebrities participating in the show include Pharrell, Ed Sheeran, Jennifer Aniston and Blake Shelton.
Red Nose Day has raised more than $1 billion in its three decades. Funds from the NBC special will go towards organizations helping children living in poverty in the U.S. and all over the world. Donations can be made by calling 1844 446 6673 or going to RedNoseDayUSA.org.
