Julianne Moore has denounced the pressure to which women feel subjected in relation to the physical changes caused by the passage of time.
Julianne Moore turned 62 on December 3 and it does not seem that reaching that age has made her change the way she faces the world and what she considers unfair. She has spoken openly about what the #MeToo movement has meant for Hollywood actresses on countless occasions and now she has also spoken about the pressure they feel as they age. She has been in an interview that she collects in W Magazine in which she seems not to be too happy with an expression that is used very often in the media and that, at first, could seem positive.
Julianne Moore doesn't like it at all when people point out that she ages gracefully. The actress considers the term points out that it is only used when someone is referring to a woman: “It is an expression that contains an inherent judgment. Can you grow old without grace? We have no choice, of course. No one has a choice when it comes to aging, it just happens, so it can't be positive or negative,” she acknowledged.
The actress has also made reference in the interview to the pressure that women are subjected to with this terminology, an expression used to imply that someone still looks young. The value of older women in Hollywood continues to be based on their ability to hide their real age, whether through surgical retouching or injectable solutions. “It's part of the human condition, why is aging always talked about as if it were something we had control over?” Julianne Moore added to the conversation. “How do we evolve? How do we navigate life to have profound experiences? “That's what a birthday should mean,” she admitted.
To get to that thought, in which the physical remains in the background, the actress had the help of another Hollywood star. It was Helen Mirren who opened his eyes when she told him that growing old is intrinsic to life and that the alternative to becoming old is dying young. The two have not yet collaborated in a feature film, but they participated in the special Killers Kill, Dead Men Die directed by photographer Annie Leibovitz in 2007 to celebrate the thirteen years of the Hollywood special that the American version of Vanity magazine publishes every year.
