The Repetitive Politics of Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore has been making the press rounds for her stage debut in David Hare's The Vertical Hour; like a very intelligent (if not broken) record, her quotes deserve high marks for consistency. From the August 24 issue of New York:
[Julianne Moore is] more forthcoming when it comes to the value of drama that looks out instead of gazing inward. "So much stuff these days prides itself on 'this is not political': It's human and emotional," says Moore. "But if you fail to acknowledge that stuff, you're just being incredibly isolationist and you're living in a dead world. Well, this is one of the things the play is about: Which side are you on? Are you engaged?"
From the September issue of Elle:
"It's about how personal is political... How what you choose to believe and choose to ignore play out on the world stage. I'm tired of things being about nothing. The kind of stuff that I'm seeing or reading, I think, Wow, is it just about sensation? Without further ramification? This play challenges our notions of who we are responsible for."
And finally, because three's a trend, from the November issue of Vanity Fair:
"People dismiss being political — writing if off as intellectual or academic. This is a return to the political as the passionate, the political being about who we are and how we live. The personal is the political."