Julianne Moore Explains What She Needs in a Film Director
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Who is Julianne Moore and why is she a legend?
Whether she's playing a 1950s housewife, a 1970s adult film star, a linguistics professor losing her memory, or Sarah Palin... She brings depth and humor and tragedy and incandescence to all her roles. And she's the author of the bestselling children's book, Freckleface Strawberry.
Staff writer Michael Shulman sat down last month with Julianne Moore. The following is only a partial list of the directors she's worked with.
Robert Altman, Louis Malle, Todd Haynes, Paul Thomas Anderson, Lisa Cholodenko, Steven Spielberg, The Coen Brothers, Ridley Scott, Stephen Daldry, Alfonso Cuaron, Rebecca Miller, Jesse Eisenberg, Tom Ford, Kimberly Pierce, David Cronenberg, Julie Taymor, and George Clooney. And she's just added to the list, Pedro Almodovar.
What directors has Julianne Moore worked with?
In his first English language feature, The Room Next Door, co-starring Tilda Swinton. Have you decided where we're going? That's why I called.
It's near Woodstock. It's about two hours from the city.
It looks fantastic. It's a bit expensive, but hey, the occasion calls for it.
Please welcome the gigantically gifted Julianne Moore. My God, I'm so flattered. Thank you very much. Thank you. I mean, let's start with that list because, my God, I mean, that's just an incredible roster of people. And I'm curious, when you choose roles, how important is the idea of wanting to work with someone or wanting to work with someone again? Yeah. versus like a particular character or the script? Do you actually have like, do you have like a life list, like a birder or something of directors? Well,
How does Julianne Moore choose her film roles?
You know, first of all, we don't have as much choice as you think. That's what's sort of interesting. And as you're going through that list, I thought, wow, I never, ever thought in my life I would work with that roster of talent. And my film career didn't even start until I was 30. And before then, I was really working in television. I started on a soap opera and I did lots of, yeah, right on. It's here for As the World Turns. But I just got the jobs I got, right? And so I came to New York thinking that I was going to work in the theater. And then I also thought that somehow I could work at a regional theater for the rest of my life, which is difficult to do. And ended up mostly doing television stuff and auditioning for Broadway things and not getting it and feeling frustrated by not getting any film work. And then... Then when the independent film world started in the early 90s, suddenly my life changed. And one of the people who changed it was Robert Altman.
Right, shortcuts. Right, because he saw me in a production of Uncle Vanya that became Vanya on 42nd Street, which Louis Moll filmed. And at that same time, I also auditioned for Todd Haynes for Safe. So those three movies came out at the same time in the early 90s and completely changed my life completely. Um, and it was sort of, it wasn't intentional, you know, that I didn't seek these people out.
What is Julianne Moore's approach to working with directors?
It was just this weird confluence of opportunity. Um, and I, and I suddenly had this film career. Yes. However, I mean, when I look at this list of directors and I've been throwing myself a Julianne Moore film festival over the last couple of weeks, which I've really enjoyed, um, What's striking is how these are all very visionary, auteur kind of directors that you've worked with. They're all very different. And yet you're able to really... find, you know, fit yourself into all of them.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who is Julianne Moore and why is she a legend?
1:12–2:01
2
What directors has Julianne Moore worked with?
2:01–3:03
3
How does Julianne Moore choose her film roles?
3:03–4:26
4
What is Julianne Moore's approach to working with directors?
4:26–9:25
5
Why does Julianne Moore prefer playback to watching dailies?
9:25–14:09
6
What makes Pedro Almodóvar's directing style unique?
14:09–16:18
7
How does Julianne Moore balance structure and freedom in acting?
16:18–26:23