Actor Julianne Moore is styled by Miranda Almond in her cover story for the February 2024 issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK. Photographer David Roemer [IG] captures Moore, wearing a lot of Bottega Veneta, Celine by Hedi Slimane, Chanel, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, The Row and more. / Hair by Orlando Pita; makeup by Hung Vanngo

In 2020, the New York Times named Julianne Moore one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. This Hollywood season Julianne Moore is playing opposite Natalie Portman in the controversial May December.

The film is the fifth time Moore has worked with director Todd Haynes.

Yesterday, we learned that Moore will star with Tilda Swinton in The Room Next Door, first English-language film from Oscar-winning Pedro Almodóvar.

Film Is Working with Your Tribe

Chatting with Lydia Slater, Moore reflects on her ‘gig’ profession in For Julianne Moore, it’s about love and work before anything else.

“Film is the most wonderful process because it’s this collective. You’re all members of this tribe that’s creating something together,” she says, adding that a lot of success is really down to hard work, as well as natural ability. “I’m most confident when I’m prepared,” she explains. “If I don’t know my lines, where I’m supposed to be or what’s going on, I’m not confident. Educating myself makes me feel ready for anything. Confidence isn’t something that’s visited upon you, it’s something that you can learn by preparing yourself for a situation. I hope my friends would describe me as loyal, funny and consistent, and lots of people describe me as organised – which is boring, but it’s true!”

On Tabloid Culture

For the actor, the real villain of May December is American tabloid culture and the way we dehumanize people who find themselves in unusual — or sensational — life situations. Moore cites Nicole Brown Simpson as a woman who was murdered and every detail of her high-profile marriage to OJ Simpson was plastered in tabloid headlines for months. She was dead, and yet every day the original Nicole was redefined by the tabloids with innuendo, judgment and often disgust.

Moore supports the idea of negating critics who operate under pseudonyms or anonymity.

In the world of fashion, Moore has been more devoted to Tom Ford than anyone else. Having just become an ambassador for Bottega Veneta, the actor says "I’ve known Matthieu [Blazy, the designer] since he was an assistant at Calvin Klein," she says. "He’s a tremendous talent."

While there’s no political discussions in the Lynn Slater interview, Julianne Moore’s focus on gun safety has not waned for one moment. She has operated as a spokesperson for the movement since the 2012 school shooting deaths of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. The actor was a co-founder of Everytown for Gun Safety, which is largely funded by former mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg.