Julia Roberts was unimpressed with the story at first

The Hollywood star wasn’t blown away by the story initially but soon fell in love with it after reading every page of the script.

Julia said: “When I sat to read [the script], I did not have any great expectations, I had been given a brief synopsis and it sounded unappealing. But when I read it, from the very start with her going into the bookshop and she seems very mysterious and there is this guy having all these troubles and they leave and collide and she is at his house and she kisses him, I thought ‘Jesus Christ, this is great,' I was completely sucked in.”