Knitting isn’t just for your grandmother – at least, not if Julia Roberts is doing it.

Roberts has been seen knitting between takes while on set filming her movies for quite a while. Now the superstar actress is going to make a movie about the activity that will, thanks to her, soon be what all the cool kids are doing.

Daily Variety reports that Roberts has signed on to star in the Friday Night Knitting Club a drama about a single mom who runs a knitting shop in Manhattan. It’s based on an upcoming novel by new author Kate Jacobs.

Roberts, who became a new mother to twins in November, 2004, hasn’t been seen on screen since Ocean’s Twelve two years ago.

Now, the Pretty Woman is diving back into acting head-on: she also has two other movies in the works. Roberts is currently shooting the political drama Charlie Wilson’s War with co-stars Tom Hanks and Philip Seymour Hoffman and she is also set to star in the upcoming Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir to be adapted for the screen.






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