10 Things You Want To Know About Julianne Moore
by Peter Knegt (October 27, 2009)
Julianne Moore at the 2009 London Film Festival. Image courtesy of the festival.
This weekend in London, Julianne Moore sat down for an inspired chat in front of a few hundred folks at the London Film Festival. There promoting both Tom Ford’s “A Single Man” and Atom Egoyan’s “Chloe,” Moore and moderator Briony Hanson (of London’s The Script Factory) talked about everything from those films to her previous work to her thoughts about aging to her tendency to work with queer filmmakers. So, in the vein of a piece indieWIRE ran a few months back on another (often) redheaded queer icon, we’ve decided to pick out some highlights from the talk in listed form. Here, in no particular order, are ten of the many facts that we learned about Ms. Moore in London: 1. Her character in “A Single Man” was inspired by Tom Ford’s grandmother. “He had a very glamorous grandmother,” Moore said of Ford. “She lived in Santa Fe. When I went for my first costume fitting, he was very specific about the dress. He pulled out quite a few options, but when he whipped out this one dress, and I put it on, he was like, “That’s the dress.” And the dress had come from a vintage store in Santa Fe, where his grandmother lived. So he got very emotional and said he could not believe the dress I was going to wear was from there. But, yeah, she had the hair and the makeup and the jewelry, and was it fun… So that’s where a lot of that came from.” 2. She admits to many failed projects, but stands firmly behind Fernando Meirelles’ “Blindness.” “‘Blindness’ is a movie that people just hammered to death,” Moore said quite passionately. “I feel like, it came out in the United States the day after the Lehman Brothers collapse. No one wanted to see a movie about the end of the world. And at Cannes, they had the screening for the journalists at 8 o’clock in the morning on the day they arrived. And everyone wanted to see ‘Kung Fu Panda.’ I’m not kidding. So people were pissed! They didn’t want to see that. This movie is challenging. It’s a very impressionistic take. Fernando Meirelles wanted to give the audience the sensation of being blind. There are some beautiful things he did with it. So, yes, I stand by that movie absolutely.” 3. Todd Haynes refused to look at her pregnant belly while they shot “Far From Heaven.” “I had to tell Todd I was pregnant just before we started shooting” she said. “He was great about it, but the one thing he would do as I got bigger and bigger was that he’d never look down. I’d show up on the set and he’d be like [she looks up and imitates his rather droll voice], ‘hi, how are you!? You look great… You look wonderful today.’ He wouldn’t ever look down.”
|
Former Winners From SXSW- Watch Free
iW brings Austin to you!
AARGIL VIDEO
THE DESTINATION DUPLICATION HOUSE FOR FILMMAKERS Proudly serving the NYC film community since 1988 Services include: Transfer, duplication, conversion & digitization of all analog & digital film formats from Mini-DV to HDCAM, PAL to NTSC, film to hard drive or Blu-ray. "Aargil Video consistently delivers an impeccable product with the quickest turnaround in town" Jay Corcoran, filmmaker "Aargil makes me feel all warm & fuzzy inside." Sean Baker, filmmaker & 2009 Spirit Award nominee Contact: JULIE ARGILA WEISSMAN (212)765-7788 Email: julie AT aargilvideo.com www.aargilvideo.com *Mention INDIEWIRE for 15% initial order discount |