Julianne Moore mirrored on her decades-long profession in a dialog with Selection‘s Angelique Jackson throughout a Kering Ladies in Movement Discuss at Cannes on Saturday, discussing every part from feminine illustration in movie to how she selects her roles.
The Oscar-winning actor, who’s receiving Kering’s Ladies in Movement Award at this 12 months’s pageant, kicked off the discuss by saying that the prize is “a thrill and a tremendous honor.”
“As an actor, you’re part of a gig economy… you’re going from one job to the next,” she stated. “When you realize you’re being celebrated or asked to speak about what’s behind you, it’s like wow. This is something I created in my life. It’s a nice point of reflection and wonderful honor.”
Moore has been an advocate for ladies’s illustration within the trade because the begin of her profession. When requested a few latest research reporting that the variety of girls in lead roles dropped to 37% amongst 2025’s highest-grossing motion pictures, down 10% from 2024, Moore famous the difficulty is “not endemic just to the film industry, it’s global.”
“I mean, there’s not representation in C-suites, there’s not representation in media, there’s not representation in higher education. There are lots of places where we don’t have the representation we deserve. So I feel like it’s a bigger problem,” she stated. “And how do you change that? I don’t know. It’s like, how does a mouse get through a wall? One bite at a time. You do it slowly, steadily, mindfully, making choices, speaking up, using your privilege, hiring more, talking about alliances, changing things for us on set.”
She added that “women are each other’s greatest allies” and “that’s the secret sauce” to success. “It’s like, we are the ones who have each other’s backs, we are the ones who hire each other, we are the ones that write stories about ourselves,” Moore added. “And that actually goes back to point of view, too. Like, who is telling that story? Whose point of view is it? Is it a female point of view?”
Moore strives to align herself with filmmakers who’re “clear about whose story it is, how it’s being told and whether or not it’s accurate.” Equally, as she’s progressed in her profession and been capable of be pickier with roles, there are some genres she’s simply not fascinated about.
“I’m less and less interested in tragedy, I would say,” she stated. “Particularly now at a time when things are rough globally, it’s hard for me to invest in a story that I think is pretend, where I feel like the depth of the emotion doesn’t measure up to what’s happening in the world.”
Moore continued: “I don’t like someone being murdered. I don’t like explosions and guns. I don’t like histrionics. I don’t like things that raise the stakes without real feeling underneath. I mean, that actually bothers me because that’s like noise. I don’t know how to play it. I don’t want to watch it.”
She additionally seemed again on a few of her most well-known roles, together with starring in “The Hours” alongside Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. Requested how Streep impressed her in her profession, Moore stated: “She’s the gold standard.”
“I sort of grew up watching television and movies and seeing movie stars, and she was the first woman that I saw who appeared to be touchable and untouchable at the same time. There was something very human about her and something very modern,” Moore stated. “Here was this actress who was like the next big thing, and she was so precise in what she did and so modern and so accessible and yet glamorous and wonderful and brave all at the same time. So I feel like she kind of lit a fire under everybody in terms of how we wanted to be, in terms of what we felt we could achieve in our work.”
