In Style cover
Moore appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of In Style magazine. She talks about when she feels sexy and what her 50th birthday meant to her.
One thing a 50th birthday does is say, All right, time is marching. You have these things you’re happy with and proud of. But if there’s something you haven’t done that you’ve been waiting to do, then by all means, don’t want any longer. Do it!
Allure cover
Moore appears on the cover of the November 2010 issue of Allure magazine. She talks about staying out in the sun, getting older, and plastic surgery.
I don’t believe it makes people look better. I think it just makes them look like they had something done to their face, and I don’t think we find that instinctually appealing.
The Kids Are All Right
0 CommentsMoore plays Jules in this dramedy written and directed by Lisa Cholodenko. Jules has been with her partner Nic (Annette Bening) since college but between day-to-day responsibilities and two teenagers, things have become a bit stale. Their lives are thrown into upheaval when their son Laser finds the sperm donor who fathered him and his sister Joni. Co-starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson, and Mia Wasikowska.
In my life, and in my children’s lives too, we have friends where there are two dads, or two moms, and from what I witness around me, there are positive role models for gay families everywhere. You know what else is really nice, is if you’re in a same-sex relationship, you can’t have a kid by accident, so these children are planned and loved and wanted, well-educated and well-adjusted – and that’s what you want. That’s what we’re all here for, right?
T cover
Moore appears on the cover of a March 2010 issue of T magazine. She talks about choosing clothing in productions.
People tell stories about themselves with their clothing, their hair, with the way they move and the way they present themselves,” she continued. “I learned that when I was young. I was always on the lookout for clues. And there are a lot of clues in how people dress
Freedomland
0 CommentsMoore plays Brenda Martin in this drama directed by Joe Roth. Martin accuses an unidentified black man of hijacking her car and kidnapping her son, leading to intense investigation of a housing project. Unfortunately for Martin, her story begins to unravel under scrutiny. Co-starring Samuel L. Jackson, Edie Falco, and Ron Eldard.
In terms of the challenges, you’re always trying to approach everything with a certain kind of empathy and compassion for what’s going on in the story. These people are in very extreme and incredibly realistic places. I mean…you see how isolated people are by poverty, and that’s one of the themes that I think is at work in this movie.
Laws of Attraction
0 CommentsMoore plays Audrey Woods, a New York divorce attorney, in this romantic comedy directed by Peter Howitt. Woods is constantly at odds with her main competitor, Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan). He is her opposite in every way, except one – they both find themselves gradually falling in love. Co-starring Parker Posey and Michael Sheen.
This was the first time that I’d done straight-up romantic comedy. I’ve never come across one, and I never had one that I liked so much before. I really liked this. These very professional people meet each other and kind of gradually fall for each other. It’s about learning how to take responsibility for your personal life.
The Hours
Moore plays Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife in 1950’s suburbia, in this drama directed by Stephen Daldry. Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway is the jumping off point to chronicle a day in the life of three women in three separate decades, all of whom, in one way or another, encounter suicide. Co-starring Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. Moore comments on what the movie means to her:
Universality. Each character’s life layers on the others’, and in the end, there’s this incredible impact of how universal all the moments—the hours—of our lives are.
Far From Heaven
0 CommentsMoore plays Cathy Whitaker, a 1950’s housewife, in this drama written and directed by Todd Haynes. Cathy sees her world implode after finding out her husband Frank is gay. During the turmoil, she befriends Raymond, who, to the shock and disapproval of her friends and neighbors, is black. Co-starring Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, and Viola Davis.
What’s interesting to me is that these movies are such a commentary couched as melodramas. It’s remarkable that Douglas Sirk and Todd Haynes are able to talk about people who are disenfranchised or kind of outside of their community in some way, or feeling the pressures of what it’s like to live in a town in the United States at that time. I mean, that’s what’s so exciting about these, but the content is actually so rich and interesting and humane.
