Women Who Travel Podcast: Emma Roberts on New Orleans and Her Vintage Books Obsession
17.10.2024 - 19:29
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Emma Roberts has acted in TV thrillers like American Horror Story and Scream Queens, as well as movies including We Are the Millers, Valentines Day, and Hotel for Dogs. She also happens to be both an avid traveler and the founder of online reading community Belletrist. Lale chats with the actor about the books she likes to travel with (and where she likes to buy them), her love of train travel, and one of her all-time favorite cities: New Orleans.
Lale Arikoglu: Hi there. I'm Lale Arikoglu and this is Women Who Travel. Today on the show I'm talking to Emma Roberts. Emma has acted in some of your favorite TV thrillers, like American Horror Story and Scream Queens. And your favorite movies, like We are the Millers, Valentine's Day, and Hotel for Dogs. She's also the co-founder of the online book club, Belletrist. And that's exactly where we started our conversation.
On a pretty gloomy Wednesday afternoon in New York, Emma told me about the books she likes to travel with as she gets over her plane anxieties. And what book she recommends on a trip to one of her favorite cities. Okay, that's enough preamble. Here's my conversation with Emma Roberts.
If you could pick three adjectives about the kind of traveler you are, might be hard to just do three, but what would they be?
Emma Roberts: Is overpacker an adjective?
LA: Oh my God, I think absolutely.
ER: Okay. I'm overpacker, spontaneous, and fun. I'm a fun traveler. I will say. I think I'm a good travel buddy. I mean, you really know who your friends are, and family for that matter, after you travel with them, especially by planes, trains, and automobiles. People's true colors always come out during travel, so I think I'm pretty fun. Minus the fact that I always have to check a bag.
LA: I think people can forgive you for that if you are being fun and spontaneous. But yeah, no, I guess it's like roommates. It's like someone can be your best friend and then you travel with them, and you're like, "Oh, maybe we are not made to do this together. It's better if we just go for dinner."
ER: It's very true. It's very true.
But no, I love to travel. I mean, for me, I would say two of my passions are reading and traveling. And so, I was very excited to do a collab with my book club, Belletrist, and Trainline because I just think reading and traveling, especially by train, is so romantic and very aspirational, yet attainable. I feel like I always make up excuses of why I can't go do stuff. So when I'm off of work ... Lately I've been trying to really go and do more. I feel like you got to just go sometimes. Don't think, just go.
LA: I love what