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Director: Miley like Julia Roberts

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12:36pm Thursday 18th March 2010

Miley Cyrus could be the next Julia Roberts, the director of the teenager's latest film has claimed.

Julie Anne Robinson, director of The Last Song, told E! Online: "She's like Julia Roberts, I feel Miley can do anything - action, comedy, drama, she's got it all."

And it seems the comparisons to the Pretty Woman actress started when Miley auditioned, with Julie adding: "Our director of photography, John Lindley, worked with Julia years ago and when Miley came in for the screen test, he said, 'This really reminds me of when Julia Roberts walked on set'."

John worked with Julia on Sleeping With The Enemy in 1991.

Julie was full of praise for 17-year-old Miley, though she admitted she didn't know much about her before they worked together on the film.

She said: "I wasn't familiar with her work. I hadn't even seen one episode of Hannah Montana.

"But when I met her, she's such a force. She's got this incredible power ... I just thought, 'This is going to work'."

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