Julia Roberts to make Venice debut in cancel culture drama

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.

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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.