Julia Roberts is due to walk the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival Friday for the first time after stepping into a new role as a college professor grappling with tense US campus politics.

The “Pretty Woman” star will attend the world premiere of “After the Hunt”, a cancel culture psychological drama from Italian director Luca Guadagnino, a Venice regular, which is playing out of competition.

In the film, Roberts plays a professor at an elite American university who is haunted by a secret from her past after a colleague is accused of sexual assault by a student.

Guadagnino — the director of “Call Me By Your Name” which helped send Timothee Chalamet to stardom — was in the main competition at Venice last year with “Queer,” an adaptation of the William Burroughs novel of the same name

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