This year, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn both deliver star turns as complicated, volatile characters amid volatile political environments. In Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” Roberts plays Alma Imhoff, a Yale professor of philosophy who is forced to confront her own flaws and biases when a student accuses her colleague of assault. And in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” Penn’s Col. Steven J. Lockjaw plunges the lives of a father and daughter into chaos as he undertakes a mission of revenge against political dissidents. The actors, longtime friends and neighbors, debrief about their work and careers before heading to dinner, where the conversation surely continues.

Julia Roberts: How many years do you think we’ve known each other? I think I know the answer.

Sean Pe

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