Julianne Moore
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first heard Dec 2024
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The New Yorker Radio Hour · Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director · 31 Dec 2024
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So everything that he does is drawn from his life. You know, he would bring jewelry to the set that you say, you know, if anybody wants to wear this pin, you put that on today and be like, OK, you know, but all of it. That's his that's his language. That's his imagination. You are you're in it. And I think he also has seen everything in his head.
And and so you're always thinking, OK, how do I fulfill this vision that he has of this of this film? Yeah.
My colleague John Law wrote a profile of you in The New Yorker in 2015, and there's a quote in it from Wallace Shawn, who is in that Uncle Vanya production with you. He said, she comes from a military background. She takes a military approach to her very unusual job. her orders are to turn into a complete maniac on Tuesday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and so she guiltlessly does that.
Is that right? Is that how the military brat life rubbed off on you in a way? No.
No. You know, my father was the person who was in the Army, and he was a paratrooper and a helicopter pilot, a really smart, wonderful person who's very liberal and not, you know, rigorous about behavior or anything like that. I think I like... I love to learn. I like to read. I like to ask people about what's going on. You know, I like all of those things, but I do. Yes.
I love structure because I think that I can do all that kind of stuff. And then when the camera's rolling, I'm free. You know, I'm free to, and it's safe. One of the things that makes me, always rubs me the wrong way is when somebody calls an actor brave. We're not brave. We're having a great time. We're, you know, we are pretending. And that's wonderful.
So you've created all these circumstances to be free and to have that moment to think like, what would that feel like? How can I make myself feel that? How can I engage in that? And the minute you say cut, you're like, oh, I did that. It's like a little bit like back with Bob Altman. He made you feel safe. He gave you a container so that you can explore this. And I think the instinct...
To act or for any creative endeavor, I think, I mean, I think there's pleasure involved. You know, why are we attracted to it? We don't have to do this. But like you start doing it and you're like, I like this. It feels good. There's pleasure in it.
Well, so as you mentioned earlier, you know, your first kind of big break was on As the World Turns. Yeah. I mean, my impression of being on a soap is that it's like you get in there, you have to cover like 30 pages in a day and it's just like, go, go, go, go, go. Is that what the process is like? It's really, really fast.
And you learn to be prepared, know your lines, know what you want to accomplish and then try to, you know, and then, and that's, I actually would watch myself on television to see how bad I was. Yeah. And it helped.
That was like an early version of watching yourself in the playback.
Yeah, it kind of was. Because I would be like, I was stiff. I had a terrible voice. I sort of had a voice like this on television. I didn't know how to relax. I didn't know how to do it. So it was a really way to learn.
Todd Haynes, who you've made, I believe, five movies with at this point, of course. There's Safe, Far From Heaven, most recently May, December. But we have a clip from Safe. Basically, you're playing Carol White, who is a woman living in L.A. in the 80s. And she's like redecorating her living room and stuff.
And suddenly she starts experiencing these bouts of mysterious affliction, like a coughing fit or a runny nose. And she's not sure what's happening with her. This is a scene with her and her psychiatrist. So let's take a look. Do you work?
Poor old Carol.
I know. Yeah. It's a great movie. Do you remember anything about that particular scene? About being inside of that scene and how you approached it?
That was, I think that was Todd's mom's suit that I was wearing.
Oh my gosh.
We shot a lot. We shot in his grandparents' driveway. We shot at his uncle's house at the beach. You know, it was all very, it was a million dollars making the movie.
Wow. I mean, well, you can tell obviously that the sort of breathy voice. Why was that the thing you, was it instinct or did you have like a sort of intellectualized reason for that? It was instinct.
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