Julie Roberts as Hanks’ wife?

In what would be her first on-screen role since 2004’s “Ocean’s Twelve,” Julia Roberts is in early talks to co-star with Tom Hanks and team with director Mike Nichols in Universal’s “Charlie Wilson’s War,” Variety reports.

Roberts, who took time off after giving birth to twins, is in discussions to play Joanne Herring, a Texas socialite.

Hanks, who is producing the film with Playtone partner Gary Goetzman, said last year that he planned to play Charlie Wilson, the rogue Texas congressman who oversaw the covert funding of Afghan rebels in their battle against the Soviet Union. Herring influenced Wilson to support the rebels’ cause.