Working mom : Part1
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Working mom
Julianne Moore continues to balance two very busy lives
Sunday, August 20, 2006
A drug-addled porn star fighting desperately to regain visitation rights with her children. A '50s suburban wife who risks everything for a tender affair with her black gardener. A shabbily dressed woman who stumbles into a Jersey hospital, babbling about a carjacking and a missing child.
A sex star, a white-gloved matron, a working-class casualty. What's the connection?
If you guessed, correctly, that they've all been played by Julianne Moore -- in "Boogie Nights," "Far From Heaven" and "Freedomland" -- then the actress will be very flattered.
If you said, however, only that they're all mothers -- then the 45-year-old redhead, gracious as she normally is, may find it difficult to keep her annoyance in check.
"I had a female journalist once ask me, 'Gosh, so what about all these mothers you play, what makes them different?'" Moore recalls, relaxing in a Manhattan hotel suite. "And I got really upset. I said 'Wow. Wow.' I mean, almost everybody I know now has children, but the people are all different -- they're actors, lawyers, writers. They're all individuals. It's kind of shocking that that's what they get summed up as."
Moore, who has two children with her husband, director Bart Freundlich, plays a mother in their new romantic comedy together, "Trust the Man." But her character is also an actress, struggling with a new challenge. And a wife, worried about a straying husband. And a trusted confidante, involved in a girlfriend's troubles.
And it bothers Moore that those sides of fictional characters -- and real women -- are sometimes ignored.
Moore has never limited herself. As an actress she's done soap operas and theater, worked for Robert Altman and co-starred with Sylvester Stallone, headed up summer blockbusters and movies that never made it out of film fests. And in whatever she's done she's been luminously beautiful and almost spookily precise.
"You almost never see her persona in any character," says Freundlich, 36, who met Moore on the set of his first feature, 1997's "The Myth of Fingerprints," and quickly cast her in his life, as well. "So I liked the idea of challenging her with a character who was only a little bit to the side of who she is in real life, someone with her sense of style and her sense of humor."
"Yeah, most of the stuff I've done has been pretty dramatic," Moore says. "For one reason or another, most of my stuff has been very dark. But 'The Big Lebowski' was a comedy. 'Laws of Attraction' was a romantic comedy, although not a lot of people saw it. I like to be funny." She laughs, nervously. "I mean, I certainly hope I'm funny in this!"
Working mom : Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4
Working mom
Julianne Moore continues to balance two very busy lives
Sunday, August 20, 2006
A drug-addled porn star fighting desperately to regain visitation rights with her children. A '50s suburban wife who risks everything for a tender affair with her black gardener. A shabbily dressed woman who stumbles into a Jersey hospital, babbling about a carjacking and a missing child.
A sex star, a white-gloved matron, a working-class casualty. What's the connection?
If you guessed, correctly, that they've all been played by Julianne Moore -- in "Boogie Nights," "Far From Heaven" and "Freedomland" -- then the actress will be very flattered.
If you said, however, only that they're all mothers -- then the 45-year-old redhead, gracious as she normally is, may find it difficult to keep her annoyance in check.
"I had a female journalist once ask me, 'Gosh, so what about all these mothers you play, what makes them different?'" Moore recalls, relaxing in a Manhattan hotel suite. "And I got really upset. I said 'Wow. Wow.' I mean, almost everybody I know now has children, but the people are all different -- they're actors, lawyers, writers. They're all individuals. It's kind of shocking that that's what they get summed up as."
Moore, who has two children with her husband, director Bart Freundlich, plays a mother in their new romantic comedy together, "Trust the Man." But her character is also an actress, struggling with a new challenge. And a wife, worried about a straying husband. And a trusted confidante, involved in a girlfriend's troubles.
And it bothers Moore that those sides of fictional characters -- and real women -- are sometimes ignored.
Moore has never limited herself. As an actress she's done soap operas and theater, worked for Robert Altman and co-starred with Sylvester Stallone, headed up summer blockbusters and movies that never made it out of film fests. And in whatever she's done she's been luminously beautiful and almost spookily precise.
"You almost never see her persona in any character," says Freundlich, 36, who met Moore on the set of his first feature, 1997's "The Myth of Fingerprints," and quickly cast her in his life, as well. "So I liked the idea of challenging her with a character who was only a little bit to the side of who she is in real life, someone with her sense of style and her sense of humor."
"Yeah, most of the stuff I've done has been pretty dramatic," Moore says. "For one reason or another, most of my stuff has been very dark. But 'The Big Lebowski' was a comedy. 'Laws of Attraction' was a romantic comedy, although not a lot of people saw it. I like to be funny." She laughs, nervously. "I mean, I certainly hope I'm funny in this!"