Julianne Moore

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 6 June 2021

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Julianne Moore grew up moving around the world with her military dad before making her way to Hollywood as a young actress. Since then she’s had an extraordinary career, including five Academy Award nominations and a win for her performance in Still Alice. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with Moore to talk about her shift from movies to television with her latest role in the Stephen King series Lisey’s Story.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.4	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.4	Got a great one for you this week.
0:11.2	Excited to bring you my conversation with Oscar winner Julianne Moore, especially excited
0:16.4	because it is an in-person conversation.
0:18.9	We're having more and more of these.
0:20.8	People get vaccinated, willing to come and hang out a little bit.
0:23.3	She's promoting her new series for Apple TV Plus called Leese's Story.
0:28.4	He's based on a Stephen King novel.
0:30.7	Stephen King calls it his favorite novel.
0:33.2	He wrote the screenplays for every episode.
0:36.1	Was on set giving direction, giving notes and encouragement as you'll hear from Julianne.
0:41.1	It is Stephen King.
0:42.8	What else can I say?
0:43.8	Psychological thriller, a little bit of horror.
0:46.8	You'll hear her describe what this series is all about, but it's actually a hard thing
0:50.4	to do as you can imagine with the Stephen King book.
0:53.9	It's hard to put into words.
0:55.2	It's just to give you a little visual picture.
0:59.0	I think I'm going to say like the 40th floor, rooftop bar, Midtown Manhattan, beautiful sunny
1:04.8	June day, big windows out to the city where Julianne got her start.
1:10.6	She was a daughter of a military man, traveled the country and the world throughout her childhood.
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