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There are very few actors working in Hollywood who can match Julianne Moore when it comes to consistent quality and breadth of movies. Over more than 40 years, the North Carolina native has gone from art house films to comedies to outright blockbusters without issue, almost flying under the radar but always adding a huge amount to anything she appears in, generally by just being quietly brilliant.
Her list of movies now ranks up there with almost anyone you can think of, featuring the likes of Children of Men, Boogie Nights, The Big Lebowski, and The End of the Affair, but despite being an Oscar winner (she picked up the golden man statue in 2014 for Still Alice) she is, like the rest of us, very excited by two things. Namely, dinosaurs and Steven Spielberg.
Fairly early on in her career, she was cast in 1997’s Jurassic Park follow-up, The Lost World, alongside Jeff Goldblum doing his sexy mathematician stuff. And it was her turn as Dr Sarah Harding (essentially a red-haired update of Laura Dern’s character in the first film) that led to her believing it to be a career-defining one, mainly due to the legendary status of the man in charge.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, Moore revealed: “The most exciting thing about The Lost World was Steven Spielberg. Talk about a career-defining moment. I can remember being in his office and talking to him about working on the movie, and I was like, ‘What am I doing here?’”
Sadly, the Lost World didn’t fare quite as well with critics as the 1993 original, which was a tough act to follow in anyone’s book, hailed as a masterpiece of filmmaking with groundbreaking special effects and becoming the highest-grossing movie of all time up to that point.
But Moore was far more enchanted by Spielberg than by any worries of commercial success. She also gave a fascinating glimpse into his on-set practices, with Spielberg seemingly staying true to his roots even when wrangling a 50-foot-tall animatronic T-Rex.
“It’s Steven’s work. And so fascinating to work with him too, because he works with such alacrity,” she said. “He works as if he’s making an independent movie. I’ve never seen anything like it. He has all of his equipment at his disposal and all these huge action sequences. It’s very complicated, but he gets it done.”
A few months after the release of The Lost World, Moore really started to garner praise from the critics with her astonishing performance in Boogie Nights, the star-packed Paul Thomas Anderson smash that bagged her an Academy Award nomination. She was sufficiently impressed by Anderson’s pitch that she agreed to be in the film before even seeing the script. But once she did, she knew she’d made the right choice, saying: “It was one of the best screenplays that I’d ever read, and the part was so original and exciting.”
This year sees the seventh instalment in the Jurassic Park series hit cinema screens with Jurassic World Rebirth, starring Scarlett Johansson and directed by Gareth Edwards, the Brit who was at the helm of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Julianne Moore, meanwhile, continues to rack up projects at an impressive rate. She’s about to be seen in Apple TV’s Echo Valley alongside Sydney Sweeney and will also appear with James McAvoy in a thriller named Control.
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