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Speaker: Chuck Rolando
Julianne Moore
Now aged 50, Julianne Moore (real name Julia Anne Smith) first came to attention with her role in Robert Altman’s Short Cuts (1993). Since then she has appeared in a range of memorable movies. Examples include: Surviving Picasso (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), The Great Lebowski (1998), Cookie’s Fortune (1999), Blindness (2008) and A Single Man(2009). Her latest film, The Kids Are All Right, is about family life, with a difference (see interview, opposite). Family life is important for Julianne Moore, who lives in New York with her husband and two children. She has reached the stage in her career where she can afford to choose the films she makes. As she says: “I want to be with my family as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer, when my family can come with me.”
Julianne Moore’s own childhood was conventional but nomadic. And this has helped her acting: “My dad was in the army so I was always new in school. I think if you’ve ever done that, you know what it means to not matter in a room. I think it’s a good experience for everyone to have, to feel like they’re not noticed because it teaches you to be empathetic.”
ALL IN THE FAMILY (INTERVIEW)
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With for Academy Award nominations to her name, Julianne Moore is one of the film industry’s most respected actresses. The storyline for her latest movie. The Kids Are all Right, which is directed by Lisa Cholodenko, is certainly original. Julianne Moore plays Jules, while Annette Bening plays Nic. Jules and Nic are lesbian couple. They have two teenage children: Jules is the biological mother of one child, while Nic is the biological mother of the other. The children were conceived by artificial insemination and the identify of their biological father is unknown. But the problems start when the children contact him and he enters the family’s life. The character’s name is Paul and he is played by Mark Ruffalo. Julianne Moore talked about the movie.
Jullianne Moore
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I think what I love about the movie too is the characters’ resilience, how much…I always talk about this, about the elasticity of love, that, when you love somebody, a lot can be allowed, a lot can be forgiven, you know, people get…you know, you watch the kids get angry with their mums, you watch the mums get angry at each other, you watch them all get angry at Paul, you watch all this kind of stuff happen, but, at the end of the day you’re left with this feeling like, you know, the kids are all right, those kids are going to be all right, the mums are going to be all right, everybody’s going to survive it because that family is going to be intact.
AT HOME
Julianne Moore’s own domestic life is more traditional. She and her husband, director Bart Freudlich, have two children. As she says, family life is important:
Julianne Moore
It’s the place where we base ourselves, we kind of come from families, and then we grow up, move away, and then we sort of start them. It’s the way we navigate our world and it’s the place where you’re hopefully, most at home.
But she enjoys making movies:
Julianne Moore
I think it’s a something that I enjoy doing, I think that I like the story-telling aspect very much of film. I think it’s about behavior and people kind of go to it to see their lives reflected, and we have a desire for that. That’s what I’m drawn to, more than anything else, is the kind of the telling of our own stories, really.
