‘Freeheld’: Ellen Page Puts the Moves on Julianne Moore in First Clip
“I don’t know if I ever let it even get close enough to me that I thought it was a possibility”, says Julianne.
“I love her to bits and we were instantly friends and partners, and it was just great to go to work everyday and have her there”, continued Moore, affection and admiration evident in her voice.
I actually believe that truth is often more powerful than my imagination. Page, likewise, avoids any prospect of making her character one-note, proving herself capable of doling out some of the surprising features of her character, such as her expertise with cars, never straining plausibility.
“Proud to be apart of Freeheld [movie]”, Miley shared on her Instagram account, along with a re-posted photo of the cast originally shared by Ellen Page.
Due out in theaters on October 2, Freeheld is a film that will chronicle the relationship of real-life New Jersey gay couple Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree, who were one of the first couples to fight for pension benefits for same-sex domestic partnerships after Laurel was tragically diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The case turned a trigger celebre, spawning an Oscar-winning brief documentary.
It’s been a growing theme in the first few days of the Toronto Film Festival, and one we’ll fully explore in a piece later this week, but it seems like a lot of the anticipated LGBT-themed films at proving underwhelming (the bright side of that is that a lot of the under-the-radar ones are not).
Director Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas) offered Carell the part and asked Moore to follow up with an email.
“It is so private”.
Ellen, who plays Stacie, said: “You hope that movies can sometimes be like an empathy machine”. This occurred. This occurred not so way back. “That is their legacy”.
The performance in Freeheld could return Moore to awards season, which Toronto unofficially kicks off. Ditto for Redmayne, who stars in Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, a drama inspired by 1920s transgender pioneer Lili Elbe. The efficiency is Redmayne’s second straight formidable transformation, following his portrayal of Stephen Hawking.
Shooting, though, began amid the late-night celebrations of The Theory of Everything. “And there’s a scene through which I am in mattress and she or he takes the duvet off. And each time I see the movie and she or he whips over the blanket, I simply assume: Hangover. You can see the lines scored into my face”.
However like Moore, Redmayne was relieved to step out of the delirious frenzy of the Oscars and again into work. “So whenever I was in LA promoting, I’d be rehearsing this and meeting trans people all over the world”.