DIVA: JULIANNE MOORE

Julianne Moore is pure Hollywood royalty, yet she’s singularly unaffected. Subtle, beautiful and smart as, she’s played gay more times than any other Tinseltown actress we can think of. She loves working with lesbian film producers and directors and they can’t get enough of her, either. Oh, and she’s got a wicked sense of humour. We’re smitten.

On taking risks and pushing her limits as an actress:

“You can’t ever assume as an actor that you know something because you’ve acted it. You’re just pretending! I bring my acting part, the director beings their directing part and we meet in the middle. My job is to do the acting – the director’s job is to pull you through it.”

On “queer cinema” and playing gay:

“I’m occasionally asked [about queer cinema] because of my work. I feel that to describe it as such can be reductive sometimes. The films I’ve made are about humanity, about what it is to be alive and for me the stories are about all of us.”

On her appeal to a gay audience:

“I think, in a lot of my movies there’s been a very dramatic and very human element with somebody who feels like they don’t belong, they don’t fit in, and there’s something in them that they want to change or be different. In terms of the queer experience, traditionally – I think less so now – but I think a lot of people grew up feeling invisible. So in terms of the queer audience, they’re looking at an actor or a character who’s kind of expressing what they’re feeling.”

The new issue of DIVA is on sale 11 March and also features the UK gay girls’ guide to friendly pubs, our pick of London’s 24th Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, real life stories from exes who still live together, plus a brand new sports column.

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