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Julianne Moore knows how to play house
Actress looks for truth behind '50s role
By Beth Pinsker, Globe Correspondent | October 9, 2005
NEW YORK -- When Julianne Moore had back-to-back showcase roles as '50s housewives in 2002, it seemed like a bad career move, like she was inviting typecasting and cutting herself off from the big-budget love story world after years of wonderful independent films. Then she got Oscar nominations for both films -- a supporting nod for the suicidal mother in ''The Hours" and a best actress one for the perfect suburbanite unmoored by her husband's homosexuality in ''Far From Heaven" -- and suddenly her choices seemed a stroke of genius.
She has played contemporary roles in two major releases since then -- in the thriller ''The Forgotten" and the romantic comedy ''Laws of Attraction" -- but what might take her back to the Academy Awards is another '50s housewife. In ''The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," which opens Friday, her character, Evelyn Ryan, is a defiant optimist who faces raising 10 children in poverty without much help from an alcoholic husband and ends up supporting them by winning a steady stream of jingle contests. The story is spry and jubilant despite its undercurrent of desperation, and Moore shows a fiery determination behind her long-suffering, pasted-on smile.
At this point, the 45-year-old actress is not worried at all about typecasting.
''What's different about this role is that it's based on a true story," she says, in a hotel suite in New York, where she's dressed casually in gray jeans and a gauzy green shirt over a white camisole. ''The responsibility is entirely different. It's about how you bring the character to life in your own way while remaining faithful to the spirit of who she was."
The director of the film, Jane Anderson (''Normal"), didn't worry at all about putting the redhead into any kind of iconic role. ''I don't consider it repetition at all. There are dozens of stories that are completely different from each other that can be told," she says.
Moore's husband, the director Bart Freundlich, speaking earlier during an interview at the Toronto Film Festival, thinks these roles are just in the cards because his wife is an expert at communicating what's below the surface. ''There's not a lot of opportunity for women of that generation in these films to express themselves verbally or make any big movements," said Freundlich. ''They don't slap anyone or yell; they are always perfect. But Juli's able to communicate the brokenness -- the complexity -- behind that."
Anderson describes a scene in the film where Moore was able to do just that, with an added degree of dignity that amazed her. After Evelyn wins a shopping spree at a supermarket, she's sitting at her kitchen table with all the kids, trying all sorts of foreign delicacies she picked, such as caviar and artichoke hearts. Her husband, played by Woody Harrelson, is expressing his wounded pride at having his wife provide all of their luxuries; he grouses and starts to get violent. The scene was supposed to end after he throws half the contents of the freezer into the backyard, but Anderson kept the cameras rolling, and Moore started improvising.
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Julianne Moore knows how to play house
Actress looks for truth behind '50s role
By Beth Pinsker, Globe Correspondent | October 9, 2005
NEW YORK -- When Julianne Moore had back-to-back showcase roles as '50s housewives in 2002, it seemed like a bad career move, like she was inviting typecasting and cutting herself off from the big-budget love story world after years of wonderful independent films. Then she got Oscar nominations for both films -- a supporting nod for the suicidal mother in ''The Hours" and a best actress one for the perfect suburbanite unmoored by her husband's homosexuality in ''Far From Heaven" -- and suddenly her choices seemed a stroke of genius.
She has played contemporary roles in two major releases since then -- in the thriller ''The Forgotten" and the romantic comedy ''Laws of Attraction" -- but what might take her back to the Academy Awards is another '50s housewife. In ''The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio," which opens Friday, her character, Evelyn Ryan, is a defiant optimist who faces raising 10 children in poverty without much help from an alcoholic husband and ends up supporting them by winning a steady stream of jingle contests. The story is spry and jubilant despite its undercurrent of desperation, and Moore shows a fiery determination behind her long-suffering, pasted-on smile.
At this point, the 45-year-old actress is not worried at all about typecasting.
''What's different about this role is that it's based on a true story," she says, in a hotel suite in New York, where she's dressed casually in gray jeans and a gauzy green shirt over a white camisole. ''The responsibility is entirely different. It's about how you bring the character to life in your own way while remaining faithful to the spirit of who she was."
The director of the film, Jane Anderson (''Normal"), didn't worry at all about putting the redhead into any kind of iconic role. ''I don't consider it repetition at all. There are dozens of stories that are completely different from each other that can be told," she says.
Moore's husband, the director Bart Freundlich, speaking earlier during an interview at the Toronto Film Festival, thinks these roles are just in the cards because his wife is an expert at communicating what's below the surface. ''There's not a lot of opportunity for women of that generation in these films to express themselves verbally or make any big movements," said Freundlich. ''They don't slap anyone or yell; they are always perfect. But Juli's able to communicate the brokenness -- the complexity -- behind that."
Anderson describes a scene in the film where Moore was able to do just that, with an added degree of dignity that amazed her. After Evelyn wins a shopping spree at a supermarket, she's sitting at her kitchen table with all the kids, trying all sorts of foreign delicacies she picked, such as caviar and artichoke hearts. Her husband, played by Woody Harrelson, is expressing his wounded pride at having his wife provide all of their luxuries; he grouses and starts to get violent. The scene was supposed to end after he throws half the contents of the freezer into the backyard, but Anderson kept the cameras rolling, and Moore started improvising.
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