Julia Roberts would have been part of a very different ‘Pretty Woman’ if the fates hadn’t intervened.

The Oscar winner revealed that the original script was very dark and gritty compared to the rom-com it’s now known as.

During Variety’s “Actors on Actors” interview, Roberts, 51, told fellow actress Patricia Arquette that she auditioned, at first, for a very different movie.

“So many, many, many years ago, one of my early auditions was for a movie called ‘3,000,’”  Arquette said. “Most people don’t know that ‘3,000’ was the original ‘Pretty Woman’ script. And the ending was really heavy.”

Roberts explained that the “small movie company” that owned the movie rights “folded over the weekend” so she was out of a job pretty quickly. But soon after, Disney picked up the script and the producer. l