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In other words, family comes first. No matter where she is with Moder and the kids (in addition to their Southwestern spread, the couple have homes in L.A. and Manhattan), Roberts spends plenty of time dancing around with the pair and playing peekaboo with Hazel, who has white-blonde hair and is "really cute," says Julia's niece Emma Roberts. The Aquamarine star adds that Hazel looks like a tiny version of War of the Worlds' Dakota Fanning, "with these huge blue eyes, and the little boy"– that would be the red-haired Phinnaeus, whom Roberts and Moder call "Finn" – "is adorable too." Julia "is always taking the kids to the park, to music or art class," says Platt. "She's a get-down-on-the-floor kind of mom. She's utterly devoted to them."
Which is why she had only one request for Three Days of Rain's producers: hold the four-week rehearsals in a locale close to her New York apartment, where the family has relocated for her three-month run. Otherwise, her time on Broadway has been perk-free. Making a reported $35,000 a week – only a fraction of what she would earn working on a movie for the same period – Roberts applies her own stage makeup, eats tuna heroes and salads from Subway with the cast during rehearsal breaks and takes curtain calls side-by-side with her costars. "She's one of the guys," says Platt. "She just wants to be one of the actors. Not a movie star."
