Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts keeps her acting career a secret from her children because she doesn’t want to “ruin the magic of movies for them”.

The Pretty Woman star is mother to three kids, twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and two-year-old Henry and deliberately refuses to tell them that she is an actress.

“They don’t know what I do yet. I kind of like it that way. I don’t know what they’re going to ask me when they do realise. I want movies to stay special for them for as long as possible,” Roberts was quoted telling a British magazine.

The Oscar-winning actress admits that she has already lied to Hazel about the secrets behind the filmmaking business and is certain to do the same with Phinnaeus and Henry.

“My daughter said to me the other day that Maria in The Sound Of Music sounded a lot like Mary Poppins. I said it’s because they’re both English, because that would burst that perfect bubble. So I prefer not to deal with it right now,” Roberts said.

Sean Penn to play Nazi-hunting rock-star in film Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn is set to play a Nazi-hunting rock-star in a new movie. The Milk star is in talks to play the protagonist in Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s first English language film This Must Be The Place.

Penn is slated to act a wealthy, retired rocker who embarks on a quest to find the German officer, who executed his father. The actor is said to have agreed to take on the role as soon as he completes work on the slapstick comedy The Three Stooges. 

Happy Tears headed to theatres via Roadside Mitchell Lichtenstein’s Happy Tears, a family comedy whose cast includes Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Ellen Barkin and Rip Torn, has secured a deal for stateside distribution.

Roadside Attractions has acquired US rights to the independent film and plans to release it in early 2010. “These are two larger-than-life performances from Parker Posey and Demi Moore as sisters who have a love-hate relationship,” Roadside company president Howard Cohen said.