Julianne Moore

1 sketch, 3 claims, and 4 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! (guest)

Loves immersive research and learning craft from experts, finds Haynes's scaffolding of references freeing, and is moved by Past Lives ('like a poem') and Poor Things. Loves a film that leaves you on an inhale.

Stances

  • The best films leave you with questions
  • Research is a student/teacher relationship, not consumption
  • Real-person roles are layers of narrative, not the truth

Humor: Warm and self-deprecating, with a wry vampiric-research joke.

In their words

  • “It's my favorite thing, honestly.” (2:08:14)
  • “I always feel like that this movie leaves you like on an inhale rather than nexthale.” (2:12:35)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–3 of 3 claims.

  1. theme (voice by character): Safe → May December. Moore chose a detached voice for Carol White and a child-like lisp for Gracie, each reflecting the character's self-story.
    “with Carol White, that my decision was based on the fact that this is a woman who was not attached to her own body”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:53:15 · Julianne Moore (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (real-person layers): May December → Game Change. Moore ties playing Palin from a book of reportage to layers of narrative, as in May December's story about storytelling.
    “the document that I'm basing my character on is taken from a book called game change that was, that was reportage of that election.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:15:49 · Julianne Moore (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. programming (recommendation): Julianne Moore → Past Lives. Moore names Past Lives as the last great thing she saw, calling it like a poem.
    “Past lives. What a beautiful movie.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:26 · Julianne Moore (0.70 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–4 of 4 fun items.

  1. fun, about May December (Gracie's lisp): Moore floated a lisp to Haynes as a physical way to make Gracie a perpetual child, which also gave Natalie Portman something concrete to mirror.
    “So I started thinking about a physical way to manifest that idea of being a child and so talk to Todd about, you know, maybe doing a lisp”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:53:50 · Julianne Moore (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about May December (references as scaffolding): Haynes sends actors lists of movies, music and storyboards; Moore says the references are scaffolding that make her feel free.
    “Todd's references and I'll give you as an actor, this kind of incredible scaffolding”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:58:58 · Julianne Moore (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about May December (research): Moore learned from a Savannah home baker how to make and box a cake so Portman could later watch her do it; she calls research her favorite thing and likens it to a student/teacher relationship.
    “the production office arranged for me to meet someone in Savannah who's also a home baker”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:08:16 · Julianne Moore (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about May December (ending): Moore says the film leaves you on an inhale, not an exhale, so people argue about what happened and what comes next.
    “I always feel like that this movie leaves you like on an inhale rather than nexthale.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:12:35 · Julianne Moore (0.80 sure it was them)