Julianne Moore doesnt believe in God: There is no there there, its all imposed
Julianne Moore covers the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter, and the article is excellent. Julianne is a wonderful person (I believe that) but she’s not always the best interview. It’s not that she closed off or sullen with reporters or anything – I get the feeling that most interviewers don’t ask her the right questions. Or maybe Julianne really felt like talking for her big THR profile. This is obviously part of her Oscar campaign – incidentally, I can’t believe it’s taken this long for her to get a THR cover – and if you’re cynical, you can interpret some of her positions as part of an Oscar strategy too. Julianne talks about how she doesn’t believe in God anymore, which could have been a big controversy… except that she puts her atheism in the context of her mother’s death in 2009.
Going into therapy in her early 30s: “I discovered that [my private life] was as important as my professional life. I didn’t spend the time; I didn’t invest. One thing I used to tell my women friends was, ‘There’s an expectation that your personal life is going to happen to you, but you’re going to have to make your career happen. And that’s not true: You have to make your personal life happen as much as your career.’ ”
What she learned from Little Women: “The idea that you’re the center of your own narrative and that you can create your life is a great idea. I totally believe it. I’ve been really lucky, but I feel I’ve completely created my own life.”
Gun control/safety: “I get more reactions on Twitter about gun safety than anything else. I don’t understand how we’re threatening the Second Amendment because we’re talking about gun safety rules. That, to me, is really shocking.”
She stopped believing in God when her mom died: “I learned when my mother died five years ago that there is no ‘there’ there. Structure, it’s all imposed. We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there’s nothing but chaos.”
Childcare: “When my kids were babies, they traveled all over the world with me and came to work with me every day, and it was never frowned upon. I am very fortunate in that I can afford to have child care, and I always hired someone who was young and very flexible — so that was always my ‘entourage’: my kids and my babysitter.”
The gun control thing will probably go over pretty well with the Academy. The atheism will be fine, because it’s more about losing her mom. My one peeve: she’s referring to the young nannies she hired as “babysitters.” That still bugs me. If you’re hiring someone young and flexible to fly around the world with you and your kids while you film on location, that’s a nanny. Not a babysitter.
She also talks about her filmography and her interests outside of work (decorating, learning languages) and all of that. It is a good read.
Photos courtesy of Miller Mobley/THR.
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