Julia snaps back at the stalkerazzi

FORGET ‘Charlie Wilson’. Julia Roberts is waging a war of her own.

The Oscar-winning actress is speaking out to E!’s Daily 10 about the intrusive lengths paparazzi now go to snap would-be money shots, particularly those involving star kids, following her finger-wagging encounter with a shutterbug last week near her children’s Malibu school. In a video of the incident, the pretty mad woman, behind the wheel of her biodiesel Mercedes, flags down a paparazzo who had previously been on her tail.After stopping, she lectures the lensman about the appropriateness of staking out a schoolyard.”You know what, you want to take me on? It’s a fair fight,” Roberts said in an interview, which aired on Monday and Tuesday.”You want to do anything near my children, you’re going to have a f***king fist in your face! Metaphorically speaking.”Of the much ballyhooed encounter, Roberts says there wasn’t much to it – mostly because she had the paparazzo, a freelancer for the Splash photo agency, running scared.”Well, I would have just given him a piece of my mind, but he ran,” she said.”And it wasn’t even so much the piece of my mind.It seemed as though since he had felt comfortable coming to the school that my children attend he may not have been informed in his lifetime – either by his mother or his boss – that you don’t go to a little school and stalk people.You just don’t do it.”The mother of three classified paparazzi attempts to snap celebrity families as “not good manners.It’s not respectful.It doesn’t accomplish anything that’s appropriate.And I felt he needed to know that, ’cause obviously he didn’t realise that or God knows he wouldn’t have been there.”And while Roberts (40) says that being trailed by paparazzi pretty much comes with the territory of being in the public eye, celebrity children, who don’t themselves seek out the limelight, should not have their lives subjected to shutterbugging.”I just think that kids should be off limits.I think anything having to do with children should be off limits.It doesn’t matter what you do for a living.It shouldn’t impact your children negatively in that way.It just shouldn’t.”Roberts says that agencies and publications are equally at fault for perpetuating potentially dangerous conditions often required to score the shots.”I don’t think the magazines should run pictures.I don’t think the shows should run footage, because basically if you pay somebody for a picture, then you’re rewarding them for however they got it.”If they chase you down the street, if they crawl through a schoolyard, if they jumped out of the bushes on Halloween and made your kids start crying, and you said, ‘You’re scaring my kids,’ and they said to you, ‘It’s Halloween, they’re supposed to be scared’…Okay, so you’re basically saying, ‘Oh, here’s some money for acting that way.’ ” Roberts, who next appears on the big screen later this month with Tom Hanks in the political comedy ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’, also lashes out at the methods paparazzi use to score their “just like us” snapshots.She claims if they simply got the shot and moved on, it would be easier for people on both sides of the camera.”I don’t understand what they’re trying to attain now that it does turn into a sport, it does turn into running and jumping and hiding and doing all these things.Just take a picture.Be discreet.Don’t cause a big kerfuffle.Let’s just all get along.”E! OnlineIn a video of the incident, the pretty mad woman, behind the wheel of her biodiesel Mercedes, flags down a paparazzo who had previously been on her tail.After stopping, she lectures the lensman about the appropriateness of staking out a schoolyard.”You know what, you want to take me on? It’s a fair fight,” Roberts said in an interview, which aired on Monday and Tuesday.”You want to do anything near my children, you’re going to have a f***king fist in your face! Metaphorically speaking.”Of the much ballyhooed encounter, Roberts says there wasn’t much to it – mostly because she had the paparazzo, a freelancer for the Splash photo agency, running scared.”Well, I would have just given him a piece of my mind, but he ran,” she said.”And it wasn’t even so much the piece of my mind.It seemed as though since he had felt comfortable coming to the school that my children attend he may not have been informed in his lifetime – either by his mother or his boss – that you don’t go to a little school and stalk people.You just don’t do it.”The mother of three classified paparazzi attempts to snap celebrity families as “not good manners.It’s not respectful.It doesn’t accomplish anything that’s appropriate.And I felt he needed to know that, ’cause obviously he didn’t realise that or God knows he wouldn’t have been there.”And while Roberts (40) says that being trailed by paparazzi pretty much comes with the territory of being in the public eye, celebrity children, who don’t themselves seek out the limelight, should not have their lives subjected to shutterbugging.”I just think that kids should be off limits.I think anything having to do with children should be off limits.It doesn’t matter what you do for a living.It shouldn’t impact your children negatively in that way.It just shouldn’t.”Roberts says that agencies and publications are equally at fault for perpetuating potentially dangerous conditions often required to score the shots.”I don’t think the magazines should run pictures.I don’t think the shows should run footage, because basically if you pay somebody for a picture, then you’re rewarding them for however they got it.”If they chase you down the street, if they crawl through a schoolyard, if they jumped out of the bushes on Halloween and made your kids start crying, and you said, ‘You’re scaring my kids,’ and they said to you, ‘It’s Halloween, they’re supposed to be scared’…Okay, so you’re basically saying, ‘Oh, here’s some money for acting that way.’ ” Roberts, who next appears on the big screen later this month with Tom Hanks in the political comedy ‘Charlie Wilson’s War’, also lashes out at the methods paparazzi use to score their “just like us” snapshots.She claims if they simply got the shot and moved on, it would be easier for people on both sides of the camera.”I don’t understand what they’re trying to attain now that it does turn into a sport, it does turn into running and jumping and hiding and doing all these things.Just take a picture.Be discreet.Don’t cause a big kerfuffle.Let’s just all get along.”E! 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