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  • Julianne Moore: ‘Still Alice’ and ‘Maps to the Stars’ Golden Globe Nomations

    Julianne Moore: ‘Still Alice’ and ‘Maps to the Stars’ Golden Globe Nomations

    Julianne Moore received not one, but two nominations when the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their list of Golden Globe contenders this past week. She was nominated for Best Actress in a Drama for her role as a professor living with early-onset Alzheimer’s in Still Alice. For her role in Maps to the Stars–a ‘Hollywood satire about a dysfunctional showbiz family,’ Moore received a nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy.

    Time magazine reports that Julianne Moore reveals ‘Alzheimer’s from the inside,’ whereas most films, documentaries, or even medical TV specials depict the disease from the point of view of the care giver or physician. They are betting on an Oscar for the actress for her role as Alice Howland.

    “Quietly magnificent, Moore plays Alice the way Pablo Casals played the cello, with delicate power and masterly vibrato. She locates each sad nuance as Alice tries valiantly to hold on to her memory, her bearings, her old cunning, her family, her self. The struggle may be doomed, but she can’t stop fighting. We hate to use the O word but, come Academy Award time, Still Alice should bring this four-time Oscar nominee the honor she has so long and richly deserved, for a performance that is — and Alice might appreciate this — unforgettable,” the Time report continues.

    If that doesn’t make you want to run to get tickets to Still Alice, then nothing will. Critics, members of the Hollywood Foreign Press, as well as members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have no doubt had their eye on Julianne Moore since they got their hands on Still Alice. It seems a sure bet that fans will love her in it, too.

    Congratulations and excitement no doubt surround Julianne Moore this holiday season. Her gifts have arrived and already been unwrapped–and unlike many other’s holiday gifts, it sounds like hers may even include bonuses in the weeks to come.

  • Julianne Moore Talks New Film Role

    Julianne Moore Talks New Film Role

    Julianne Moore is a successful actress who has appeared in a number of big name films. In spite of her accomplishments, she prefers to appear in small films.

    She recently talked about her role in Maps To The Stars and said that she was really excited about the role because of how the director approached the story and film.

    “For me, it’s really about narrative. That’s where my interest in acting came from: books. I am not by nature a performer, but I have always been really interested in narrative and story. And if I get excited about a project, it’s usually because it’s story, story, story,” she said to Canada.com

    “Character is secondary. People ask me if I want to play some specific character and I’m like, I don’t know. If they exist in a narrative, then I can understand. But a character alone doesn’t mean anything to me. I need context. And I realize that’s how I understand the world: In the context of a narrative. And I think a lot of us do. I think that is human instinct,” she added.

    She said that the story could have been interpreted a variety of different ways but said that she was particularly interested in the role and the film because it was made into a family drama and has a message.

    “I think if you talk about this movie in terms of Hollywood, you sort of miss the point. It’s a movie that could be set anywhere,” said Moore.

    “There’s a lot of mythology about Hollywood. And there are things that exist in that world that are unique to it … it’s a world of projected images. And this idea permeates all popular culture: that you believe the image you see and take it as real. But it’s not real. So my character, when she doesn’t see her image out there, she feels like she does not exist. It’s the fake projection that keeps her alive.

    “And if that’s true for any person then, of course, you’d be destroyed by it because there is only the outside. There is no inside.”

    The film opens in theaters October 31st.