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JUST DID IT: Chatting with Julianne Moore about books and freckles
CP reporter Brandon Baker trained to Haverford yesterday to see Academy Award-nominated actress Julianne Moore read from her latest children's book, Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever.
JUST DID IT: Chatting with Julianne Moore about books and freckles
CP reporter Brandon Baker trained to Haverford yesterday to see Academy Award-nominated actress Julianne Moore read from her latest children's book, Freckleface Strawberry: Best Friends Forever.
Julianne Moore walked into Children’s Book World like every other mom in the place, humble and sweet. And aside from her publicist, she wasn't surrounded by a team of Hollywood-types and paparazzi. Instead she had a haggle of little kids at her feet, who she played around with before launching into the reading of the third book in her Freckleface Strawberry series.
The New York City-based jack-of-all-trades says the original inspiration for the series came from being teased in grade school about having a lot of freckles. Drawing from that, she says she wrote the entire first book during a plane ride.
When I could, I made a beeline through the crowd of kids to ask her a few grown-up questions:
City Paper: What not-so-subtle morals can adults and children take away from the book?
Julianne Moore: “You know, in this [book] these two kids perceive themselves as best friends and people say they’re a lot alike — but they’re not. But they’re both human beings. They both have families. The less we categorize, the better off we are.”
CP: And why the transition from acting to writing?
JM: “They’re interconnected,” she says about the two jobs. “I got into acting because I love to read, and that’s the same reason I’m a writer. I love language and storytelling … I want to be inside the stories and movies.”
Moore says she plans to write a fourth entry to her Freckleface series as well as a memoir-style account of her life as an American child with a foreign mother, appropriately titled My Mom is a Foreigner. The Hollywood star will also soon join the ranks of famous Sarah Palin portrayers in HBO’s bio-pic Game Change.
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