Julianne Moore has played a lot of ‘big’ roles for women through-out her career, from early roles in Nine Months and Boogie Nights, to more recent roles like Crazy Stupid Love, Still Alice and Freeheld.
The 56-year-old stunner has most recently graced the red carpet for her latest movie Suburbicon with Matt Damon, a comedy/drama crime movie set in the 1950s, produced by George Clooney.
While there’s plenty who say she’s looking fabulous for her age, don’t expect Moore to take it as a compliment, necessarily.
In a feature for Instyle Magazine, for which she appears on the October cover, Moore has discussed the idea of ageing, and considers it a blessing.
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“I mean, let’s not talk about this idea of ‘Oh, no! I’m going to be 40!’,” Moore told Instyle.
“You could be dead. So enjoy it. It’s a privilege to age! Even in scripts, they’ll refer to a character as ‘ageing.’ Well … everyone is ageing. In literature and in movies, when people try to stop the process, it always ends in disaster. I think it’s really important to be where you are.”
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She did say that the older she got the more she prepared for roles as she realised the less she knew.
“I thought when I was younger that I was prepared. But it just pales in comparison to the amount I do now. Maybe being young, you think, ‘Well, I know how to do this!’ and the older you get, the more you realise that you don’t know anything.”
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When it comes to retirement though, Moore doesn’t think of it as a time when she’d be too old, but more when she didn’t care.
“Sometimes I look back and think, ‘I don’t know how I even got this idea to be an actor.’ But I had a lot of interest in it, and that gave me the drive. I think the day I stop being so interested in it, I’ll be less ambitious.”