Julia Roberts and Andrew Garfield brought Luca Guadagnino’s campus drama After the Hunt to the BFI London Film Festival for its UK premiere at the Royal Festival Hall.
Julia Roberts, the star of Pretty Woman, joined Luca Guadagnino at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Saturday 11 October 2025. The gala was the UK premiere of his Yale drama After the Hunt, with Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri.
Roberts was born in Atlanta in 1967 to two former actors who ran an acting school for children. She left for New York after high school to study acting.
Pretty Woman made her a leading lady in 1990. My Best Friend’s Wedding and Notting Hill followed, and she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Erin Brockovich in 2000.
Nora Garrett wrote the screenplay. Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, a Yale philosophy professor. A star pupil, played by Edebiri, accuses a colleague, played by Garfield, while a secret from Alma’s past threatens to come to light.
The film had premiered at Venice on 29 August and opened the New York Film Festival on 26 September. Amazon MGM Studios released it in American cinemas on 10 October, and the London gala was its first public screening in Britain.
Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny are also in the cast.