Supposedly, Eric got Julia into acting and couldn't handle his little sister's "instant success" after "Pretty Woman," being that he struggled for years and came nowhere close to achieving her success. In short, he resented her.
Then, Eric developed a HUGE cocaine problem, futher distancing the two siblings. Now, Eric's daughter is acting and she's very close to her Aunt Julia, so Eric and Julia have bonded over her in recent years. Things are now much better between the two, but there was a point where they didn't speak for like ten years.
Whoa time out, let's remember something guys: he's a really good actor and was a hot dog in the early 1980s from POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE to an absolute scumbag in STAR 80 and got an Oscr nomination for the very awesome RUNAWAY TRAIN, which I would really recommend.
Was the Julia why his career went to shit? Perhaps one of the reasons, along with the drugs but but he also pulled unfortunately a Mickey Rourke by at point just quit caring as much about the movies he was picking and worrying more about the quick paycheck. Thus in less of a decade he went from RUNAWAY TRAIN to the lame martial arts movie BEST OF THE BEST.
Notice how director Christopher Nolan in his last few pictures has casted in small parts these burned out, 1980s stars whether it be Eric Roberts and Anthony Michael Hall in THE DARK KNIGHT or Rutger Hauer in BATMAN BEGINS or shit Nolan even dug out Tom Berenger from whatever rock he was sleeping under for INCEPTION.
So for BATMAN 3, I suggest Nolan call up Louis Gossett Jr.
