Nick Nolte spills on infamous Julia Roberts feud

Nick Nolte has lifted the lid on his falling out with the Oscar winner, who called him “disgusting” after they starred in a movie together.

It seems they’ve put the “trouble” behind them.

After nearly three decades, actor Nick Nolte is addressing the alleged behind-the-scenes beef he had with Julia Roberts while filming the ’90s flick I Love Trouble.

“It was absurd what we went through,” Nolte, 81, admitted to Insider while promoting his new drama Rittenhouse Square.

In a 1993 interview with the New York Times ahead of the release of I Love Trouble, Roberts accused Nolte of exhibiting off-putting behaviour during production.

“From the moment I met him we sort of gave each other a hard time, and naturally we get on each other’s nerves,” Roberts said when asked about her co-star’s reputation for behaving crudely on set. While he can be “completely charming and very nice,” she said, “he’s also completely disgusting.”

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Roberts and Nolte in I Love Trouble.

The Pretty Woman star added, “He’s going to hate me for saying this, but he seems [to] go out of his way to repel people. He’s a kick.”

Nolte reportedly responded in an interview with the Los Angeles Times at the time, “It’s not nice to call someone ‘disgusting.’ But she’s not a nice person. Everyone knows that.”

It was a lot of drama for a critically-panned romantic comedy about rival Chicago reporters who join forces to investigate corruption.

It appears Nolte no longer harbours ill will toward his former co-star. When asked if he’d “buried the hatchet,” he said, “No, I haven’t. Though it’s buried.”

The actress, pictured here in 2019, called Nolte “disgusting” after the worked together. Picture: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images

He also took part of the blame for the supposed on-set feud. “It was partly my fault and a little bit of hers,” Nolte admitted. “Julia got married at the beginning of that film, and it was one of those things where I just approached it all wrong.”

He was referencing Roberts’ highly-publicised 1993 marriage to Lyle Lovett, which ended in divorce less than two years later.

The actress is married to Danny Moder, a cameraman she met on the set of The Mexican in 2000, and with whom she shares three children: twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, who turn 18 this month; and 15-year-old Henry.

Roberts recently claimed her secret to maintaining a successful marriage is copious smooching. “I always say the same thing, and I’m sticking with it,” the Academy Award winner told E! News in October. “It’s making out. Lots of making out.”

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission.

Originally published as Nick Nolte spills on infamous Julia Roberts feud