Daryl Hannahwas pitch perfect as the shy cosmetologist-in-training Annelle Dupuy-DeSoto in Herbert Ross’Steel Magnolias.

I love that feeling where you really turn into somebody else."

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Hannah was a much bigger star than Roberts when the call went out forSteel Magnoliasauditions.

Daryl Hannah and Julia Roberts, circa 1990.

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“Everyone talks about, now, ‘Women supporting women!’

Well, in my day, it was not like that,” she explained.

But on theSteel Magnoliasset, “it was really wonderful to have those women be so supportive and encouraging.

Steel Magnolias actresses Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacClaine, Dolly Parton, and Daryl Hannah pose for a portrait in October 1989 in Los Angeles, California

The cast of ‘Steel Magnolias’.Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty

I just never had experienced that before.”

If you ever talk to Julia, shell tell you."

Roberts was “sort of the newcomer.

And she waswonderful, and he just picked on her.

It was awful.”

Some people just need to have somebody they pick on.

But we all came to her aid."

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