Julianne Moore discusses everything from ageing to the #MeToo movement in a new interview with Tatler.
The 58-year-old speaks about how the atmosphere has changed on set since women started speaking out, admitting females have been brought up thinking a certain way, however this is all changing.
Moore tells the magazine, “We’ve been inculcated with this idea that men were allowed to do certain things. Even something casual, like a man you didn’t know kissing you hello rather than shaking your hand – we used to tolerate that because we were told: ‘He doesn’t mean anything by it, he’s just being friendly.'”
The actress then talks about “inappropriate touching,” insisting that kind of behaviour is not okay.
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She explains, “My husband and I were discussing just this, and he said: ‘That kind of stuff’s okay at a family party.’ And I said ‘No, it’s not.’ I remember someone who was that way when I was a kid and I was uncomfortable and I couldn’t say anything.”
“The only person I could say something to was my sister, and she felt the same way. So this sort of discussion is a real change, and it’s important.”
Moore adds of feeling like she was finally able to take control of her life once she’d hit 30: “It wasn’t until I was in my early 30s and I was really unhappy that I realized I hadn’t made my personal life a priority. I realized: ‘I really want this. I want to be married. I want to have children.'”
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“Growing up in the late ’70s, I definitely got the message that it was important to have a career and that I had to work to make that happen. But there was this idea that you don’t need to work for your personal life – that it was supposed to be like a romantic comedy: you meet someone, have a couple of dates and there you go.”
“That’s just not true. Life is finite. This idea that you can do whatever you want at whatever time, it’s not true in terms of work and it’s not true in terms of having a family.”
See the full feature in the July 2019 issue of Tatler, available on digital download and on newsstands May 23.
