4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Julianne Moore joins us with her husband, writer-director Bart Freundlich, to talk about their careers and their new drama, ‘After the Wedding,’ the fourth film they’ve made together. Moore offers some advice to actors just starting out, tells us how she picks her projects, and she and Freundlich discuss the struggle that comes with trying to get an indie melodrama like ‘After the Wedding’ financed.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:04.7 | When Julianne Moore was starting out in the late 1980s, |
0:07.8 | she got offered a part playing twins on the now-defunct soap opera as the world turns. |
0:13.2 | Maybe it wasn't the most prestigious gig, |
0:15.4 | but Moore says people trying to break into the business shouldn't be snobs. |
0:19.1 | Sometimes young actors say, like, I don't know, what am I |
0:21.3 | going to do? How am I going to choose? I'm like, you're just going to do what you are offered. |
0:25.8 | There's not that much to choose from when you're first starting out. I'm just work, just work. |
0:29.7 | You don't have to be somewhere forever, but you learn a lot just by actually working. |
0:34.6 | That's soap, one more, a daytime Emmy, and now she has an Oscar, too. |
0:38.9 | Moore talks about how she picks her projects and why she's not afraid to work with first-time |
0:42.7 | directors, one of whom, Bart Freundlich, later became her husband. Today, Moore in Freundlich |
0:47.9 | join us to talk about the first film they made together, The Myth of Fingerprints, and their |
0:52.4 | latest collaboration, an English-language remake |
0:55.0 | of the Danish film after the wedding. But first on the news banter, the triumph of Sherry Redstone. |
1:00.9 | Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW. |
1:07.0 | I'm joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany of a Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt. |
1:11.1 | Hi there. Well, so Sherry Redstone has finally prevailed in her struggle, a long struggle, |
1:16.5 | to bring together these two big pieces of the empire assembled by her father, Sumner Redstone, |
1:22.0 | CBS and Viacom. Viacom being the parent of MTV and Nickelodeon and the Paramount movie studio and other assets. |
1:29.3 | She had a struggle. |
1:31.3 | Now, first of all, let's start with her father Sumner, still alive, very, very old, hasn't been seen in public in years. |
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