TIFF: ‘Freeheld’ Star Julianne Moore Says LGBT Discrimination Rooted in

“Here is this young woman closeted for such a long time in a professional environment who was not able to describe her difficulty and her pain, and it was so generous of her to explain it all to me and to share it, and she was so incredibly vulnerable in her explanation of it”, Moore said of Page, who came out in February 2014.

Julianne Moore recalled her daughter passing that judgment on a movie career that has included about 60 feature films, and more than a few characters who were, indeed, in dire personal straits.

At this point previous year the eventual 2015 best actress Oscar victor , Julianne Moore, was just making her way onto the map with her performance as a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in “Still Alice“.

It’s based on a true story about a lesbian couple’s battle “to be treated like everybody else”, said Moore.

In it, she stars as New Jersey police detective Laurel Hester, who, after being recognized with terminal most cancers, sought to have her pension go to her home associate Stacie Andree (Ellen Web page), an inheritance that may have been automated for a married couple. Now it could bring Moore back into the awards season arena, Kristopher Tapley says in a review published at TheWrap.

“There is something blunt and urgent about this because it’s contemporary, and it makes it more relevant in some ways to what we’re experiencing right now”. It’s juxtaposed against a noisy demonstration by Hester’s supporters outside a political office.

“The gay male community had Philadelphia, but female couples have not had this movie”. Shannon, playing Laurel’s work partner, Dane Wells, provides a nifty parallel to the person Laurel chooses as her life partner, Stacie-what he possesses as an actor, and what he infuses his character with, is a fascinating ability to convey so much going on beneath the surface. The film, directed by Peter Sollett, was to make its premiere on Sunday night, with Andree in attendance. If you haven’t watched the trailer in full yet: Do it.

“We were all so delighted”, Moore continued.

That it is such a modern story is astonishing to Moore: The real-life Hester and Stacie were denied something that, because they legally entered a domestic partnership, should be automatically theirs legally – though a loophole in the New Jersey law left benefit allocations up to county officials.