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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It was instinct, I think, when I first read it. But I also thought, this is a person who's not comfortable in her body. So she can barely make contact with her own throat, her own vocal cords. She doesn't want to make any sound. She doesn't even have... Like, she talks about her son. It's like, her son. It's her stepson. She doesn't have a... She doesn't like to take up a lot of space.
She wants to be attractive and offensive and doesn't want to offer herself. Like, she's like... He's like, we want to hear from you. And she's like... You know, she's been completely defined by the world that she lives in, by consumerism, capitalism, by her marriage. She's not working. She's kind of absorbed. You know, she spends her time on a fruit diet and at aerobics.
Um, and buying her couch and then suddenly, suddenly she feels terribly ill. Like the, you know, the fabric on the couch makes her feel sick. She starts to have a, she has like a seizure at the dry cleaner and she doesn't, she's confused. She's like, so everything that tells her who she is makes her sick. Um, and she doesn't know why. Hmm.
That choice about sort of where her voice lies reminds me a little bit of in May, December, your most recent Todd Haynes film, where you had a lisp. That kind of like, it kind of, did it come and go a little bit? Like I noticed at certain moments more than others.
We were very specific about it because people only lisp on certain sounds. And so there are sounds where the lisp will be more pronounced. But Todd and I talked about that. And what I wanted with the lisp is that, you know, a lisp is often a characteristic of childhood, right? Because it can be like a tongue that's not quite developed yet.
Now, obviously, when people have actual speech issues, there could be a lot happening that's not addressed. But with this particular character, I wanted it to be a signifier of how she thought of herself. This is a person who thinks of herself as a child and thinks of herself as a princess. She's not the queen. She's still a little girl. She's still the princess. He's the prince who rescued her.
In order for him to rescue her, she has to be the princess. so this was like another manifestation of the way she felt in the world and what she was projecting you know in the world so Todd and I talked about it and we talked about the specificity of the the lisp too it made sure it was always really really specific um
It's interesting to see that clip where she stumbles over the word housewife because you've played a lot of great housewives. Of course, I remember the year when you were nominated for two Oscars for playing two different unhappy 1950s housewives in The Hours and Far From Heaven.
Is that like a fluke playing people who are sort of stuck in the domestic realm or is it something that you sought out that you are interested in for a particular reason?
I think that was a fluke. And that year in particular was frustrating to me because those parts were so different.
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, you know, I don't know that I seek out things in the domestic space, but I do think I'm really drawn to ordinary lives. I'm like people. I've never been like, I'm going to play an astronaut next. You know, I don't think that way. I always think, what is this?
emotional dilemma who you know why is this compelling to us like i always think that thing in the new york times you know my sunday morning and we all read it avidly like oh she gets up at 8 30 and then she has like one cup of coffee and then a banana and then she goes for a run And I read it all the time and I'm like, why do I care about the banana?
And I care because she's a human being like me and I'm really interested in how she approaches her life and what she does and what she thinks and all of these things hopefully give me a deeper understanding of what it is to be a human being. And so the stories, a lot of these stories, domestic stories, well, that's the biggest story of our lives, right? Mm-hmm. How do we live? Who do we love?
Where do we live in our communities? Those are the things that we all know about. We know about that. I don't know what it's like to be a queen. I've never met a queen. Maybe I'll try to meet a queen. I don't know. But I do know about this. We all know about this. It's fascinating.
Well, I mean, you are yourself a kind of ordinary person. Yeah. One other interest of yours, which is the Knicks... How did you get, you're at Knicks games all the time. How did you get into basketball? And like, what do you see when you're watching the Knicks?
Frankly, it's not me. It's my family. It's my husband and my son who are here with his fiance. Not my husband's fiance, my son's fiance. But they're big basketball fans. And so it's a really, it's a family thing. And I didn't know, I grew up with a dad who watched football and I never really watched basketball.
But what I love about watching basketball is that you can see their faces and there is so much drama and you see their faces and you see their bodies and all these other sports. Like I feel like in baseball and in football, they're all, I don't know what's going on, you know, but they're so exposed. And I really like that. And I love the drama of it. I mean, sometimes it's heartbreaking.
Really, right?
Yeah. Well, Julianne Moore, thank you so much for doing this. It's such a privilege to be able to talk to you.
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