Julianne Moore Talks Oscars, Gun Control, Gloria Steinem & More #WSJ
Love Julieanne More and this is a great interview in WSJ magazine
On winning an Oscar “You can’t have it as a goal. It can’t be. It’s a marker. I remember somebody asked Jodie Foster about winning an Oscar, and she said, ‘Oh, my God, it was such a relief.’ I laughed, because that is how it feels. You have to work for the work. You have to like the process and like doing it because you like doing it.
“And yet our culture has these competitions and these prizes…so on one hand, it feels like, Phew. On the other hand, it’s like, Are you kidding? Did that actually happen to me?”
On counseling her kids on career and life choices: “If you’re lucky to find something that interests you and to be able to pursue it, that’s fantastic. That’s what you want. That’s a measure of success if you’re doing something that you really enjoy and then you manage to get paid, because that’s not a given.”
On using the NRA’s aggressive public relations tactics against them:
“Culturally, people were loath to speak about the Second Amendment and guns, because somehow it was taboo. It was taboo because the [National Rifle Association] has made it taboo, claiming people were un-American if they were talking about this kind of stuff. So, I was like, “All right, so if [the NRA] has managed to wage this public relations campaign from their end, why don’t I have the people in my community—our community—speaking up?”
On Gloria Steinem (she portrays the iconic feminist in The Glorias out in January 2020. Steinem was an advisor on the film) “She’s just as glorious as you’d imagine. She’s very smart, which goes without saying, but she’s also incredibly thoughtful and patient and tolerant. Her ability to not be rash, and to speak to people who are very different than she is and not judge is really exemplary. You literally think, OK, what would Gloria Steinem do? How would she handle this situation? Because she’d handle it beautifully.”
On what she considers a perfect day in New York City: “You just walk, walk, walk, and it feels like a small town, because it kind of is…I think that’s pretty perfect.”
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