Julianne Moore is the cover girl for the May issue of InStyle UK. At first I thought this was a completely new piece, but I just discovered that it’s just the UK edition of a recent American InStyle cover shoot and interview. Still, we haven’t covered it before, so enjoy. The interview was conducted by Tom Ford! Surprisingly, the excerpts aren’t that juicy. I think Tom might identify Julianne with his mother (something I read when they were promoting A Single Man), so perhaps that’s why there are no dirty revelations or stories. Or maybe Julianne just isn’t a dirty person. The photos are quite beautiful, aren’t they? Julianne is 50 years old, bitches. We should all be so lucky to look this awesome. Here are some highlights from the interview:
Julianne Moore has made more than 50 films, clocked up four Oscar nominations, posed nude for Bulgari and found time to write a few children’s books. And she’s a dab hand at modelling too. The 50-year-old actress looks seductive and amazingly youthful in a new photo shoot for the May issue of InStyle.
The actress is interviewed by fashion icon Tom Ford in the magazine where they talk about fashion, ageing gracefully and why they both love this season’s Seventies trend. The mother-of-two shared her beauty secrets and how she keeps her skin looking so soft and wrinkle-free.
‘I say this to every young person I know,’ Moore shared. ‘Stay out of the sun! I have very fair skin and it would have been super-damaged. I always wear sunscreen and I walk on the shady side of the street.’
When asked at what point does she feel her sexiest Moore laughed: ‘I think you need to be away from your children. Doing the mummy stuff does sort of squash that area of your life… I can feel that way when I’m alone with Bart or when we take a trip. But the day-to-day of picking up kids and going to the eye doctor and then dropping them off at basketball and then going to the middle school concert, that stuff doesn’t make you feel very sexy! That was my day yesterday.’
Moore also spoke about which decade of fashion she loves and loathes.
‘I don’t like Fifties clothes. I wear them in movies, or they appear on the runway, ladylike waists and all that. I’m like, “No!” I hate them on me, because I have no waist. I go straight up and down. So in my lifetime, I’d have to say the Seventies [are her favourite era]’.
She also claims to favour clogs and Birkenstocks over Manolo Blahniks and Christian Louboutins.
The Hours star also dished about her favourite comfort food, which going by her great figure, was obviously not going to be anything too fattening.
‘Dover sole and French fries,’ Moore said of the food she loves to indulge in. ‘It’s really boring, but I’ll be in hotels where I’ll eat that every night. And ice cream’.
Julianne has been fortunate enough to star on the big screen with some gorgeous leading men.
Of Mark Ruffalo who she starred in with Blindness in 2008 and his Oscar-nominated turn in The Kids Are Alright last year, Moore said: ‘He’s warm, quick and easy to connect with. He’s an emotional guy. It’s all right there in front of you. I love that about him.’
And she loves her British actors including Colin Firth who she said is ‘like diving into a pool of words and fun with him’. She starred with him in A Single Man in 2009. She also said Clive Owen, who she starred in with Children of Men in 2006 has her constantly laughing.
Julianne’s latest role will be starring as Sarah Palin in an upcoming film. But she has not exactly received a ringing endorsement from the former governor of Alaska. The one-time US vice presidential candidate shared her views about the film Game Change saying: ‘I think I’ll just grit my teeth and bear whatever comes what may with that movie’.
[From The Daily Mail]
See, I don’t like those loosey-goosey 1970s styles because they look like tents on me – because I’m not tall and lithe, like Julianne. Some of us need some tailoring! Oh, and I cannot wait to see her as Sarah Palin. I bet she nails it, don’t you? I’m betting that Julianne is so good that I’ll come out the movie having sympathy for Sarah Palin. Also: MORE CLIVE PLEASE.
By the way, Julianne auditioned for the role of Hillary Clinton in the HBO movie The Special Relationship – the part eventually went to Hope Davis. But Julianne was in the running long enough to do a makeup and wig test, and here’s the photo of Julianne as Hillary. Not bad, right? She’s such a chameleon.
More InStyle photos:
Photos courtesy of Buzzfeed & The Daily Mail.
Staying out of the sun all the time leads to brittle bone disease. Look it up!
OMG … I had to take a second review at the Hillary look-a-like pic of JM …it is an amazing transformation.
She looks amazing! Guess 50 is the new 30!
She is the best!
Gorgeous – Eva Longoria should take a leaf out of Julianne’s classy book. Being Australian, I can vouch for staying out of the sun for most of the time really does save your skin (our sun is brutal) but you do need some for vitamin D.
I love her!!! She’s one of the best most versatile actresses around. She actually dropped out of the HBO-Hilary Clinton project to film The Kids Are Alright.
I say go in the sun and wear sunscreen.
i cant stay out of the sun! i love swimming in the sea way too much –
she has the most beautiful skin, and she’s ageing enviably well… sigh, what genes…
also, she’s right about the sun…
yeah you need vitamin D, so a little sun is good for you as well. Just don’t get sunburned is my motto.
She’s fantastic. Love her!
She is beyond fabulous. Such beauty, talent, and humility to boot. Rare.
Love her and promoting sun-protection! However…. BAD cover shot. Her arms look like a Snuffalupagus! That wrap is too tone-on-tone to flatter.
Amber Waves!!!
I realize this is a UK publication but “who she starred in with” cannot be proper grammar!
I really cannot believe she has never had a date with a needle or tooth whitener.
Smoking + lack of vitamin D from the sun cannot be healthy.
no way
50??????????
and I saw the kids r alright!!!!! WOW
her daughter is the cutest
Definitely hope she’s getting her Vitamin D somehow.
her skin is flawless. is it for real or is that photoshop
Sunscreen & a hat, baby! My mom has lupus & HAS to stay out of the sun. She is 66 & doesn’t look a day of 55. They sun will do horrible, horrible things to us fair-skinned girls’ faces. Also, my mom does have any brittle bone disorders or issues & neither do I.
It is impossible to stay 100% out of the sun all the time, but really fair people should cover up as much as possible. The amount of vitamin D that you need from the sun is equivalent to a fairly small amount of exposure.
Vitamin D is a very cheap vitamin — try Trader Joe’s brand. I was on prescription D for a while (also cheap), but just take that now.
Julianne is GORGEOUS! She doesn’t look like every other celebrity, thankfully. If she’s had work done, it’s very good.
Good Lord, people, you get enough vitamin D from the sun just from the filtered light that comes in through windows. How do you think indoor cats do it?
She’s right, if you really want to look your age or younger and not OLDER, you’ll stay out of the sun. I’m 40, I’ve followed that advice religiously my whole life (and don’t smoke) and no one ever believes I’m 40. I don’t even have crow’s feet or a single line on my forehead. The sun ages you.
And what’s this brittle bone stuff? Drink skim milk for the calcium. Done.
Vitamin D is used to fortify everything from milk to cereal. Besides, you need less than 15 minutes of sunlight a day for Vit. D and you can get that from walking to the mailbox and to and from your car with a hat on. You just need the sunscreen on your face and backs of your hands. You can let your legs and arms soak up the sunshine and not wreck your face. My face looks so much younger since I’ve kept it away from direct sunlight.
I love it when women with great skin come out with this simple advice!! I wish it had been a bigger deal when I was 13 and lying out with baby oil on my legs.
Sunscreen only does so much for folks as fair as Julianne. You need hats, shade and coverage. I have olive skin but I still attempt whenever possible to keep my face out of the sun completely. You really get enough of it passively in the summer time.
I have friends who never went in the sun, who still have lines and loose skin.
She is beautiful and I believe has good genes, but anyone who doesn’t think she’s had a little work surgically or nonsurgically is naive. Most never admit to it. Oh, well, I wouldn’t either.
why is it that julianne (pale, redhead) looks so right (mostly), colour-wise, and not just style-wise, and christina hendricks (also pale, redhead) looks so wrong (mostly)?
She looks like a 60 yr vampire
Apparently all you need is to stick your arm out a window 15 minutes twice a week to absorb the recommended amount of vitamin D…
I plan to continue my regiment of avoiding the sun for prolonged periods…My dad baked in the sun his whole life and he’s a crinkly and wrinkly now…Can’t. Let. It. Happen. To. Me.
Eh. Following this type advice makes people seem too vain and boring. Who cares what you look like if you’re boring. one life to live! 70 years of fear of the outdoors, no thanks. What if you die before you even get old?
I am a redhead who stays out of the sun. I am 41, and just last week, I got carded at a bar, and the look of shock on the bouncer’s face when he saw my date of birth was TOTALLY worth the inconvenience of staying out of the sun.
If I do go in the sun, I wear very high SPF sunscreen and a wide brimmed hat.
So glad to see a lovely, fair skinned woman on the cover of a magazine instead of these orange overcooked morons! TAN is NOT healthy.
BTW, I have never had a problem with vitamin D levels. There’s these snazzy newfangled things called supplements. Look ’em up. 😉
she’s one of those broads that just gets better with age.
i mean she looks 100 times better than when she did
‘hand that rocks the cradle’ and that was a million years ago. 😉
I think she says that line in every interview. Everyone needs a little sun now and then, just be smart and use sunscreen.
I really like her and find her very pretty but she looks fifty. Good but fifty. She has wrinkles. I take plenty of vitamin D but there is nothing quite like the sun itself. Just be smart about it.
They photo-shopped her freckles out, google any picture of her at an event or a red carpet premiere, she has so much freckles!!! yuck! lol
Indeed she is very beautiful and I like her a lot, I’d love if she could get an oscar.
TRUE THAT…STAY OUT OF THE SUN! I am an Irish American with Ivory skin who lived at the beach every summer. I always stayed under the umbrella, wore tee-shirts & caps and went home for the hottest hours in the afternoon. I have gotten horrible sunburns due to no sunblock when I was a child, YET I HAVEN’T ONE WRINKLE AND HAVE BEAUTIFUL SKIN; Sadly my Irish born Mother got skin cancer from the exposure.
I really hope “stay out of the sun” is a loose way of saying “don’t sunbathe”, because to spend your entire life avoiding getting dirty outside. . . it’s just not a life at all!
I spend all four seasons playing outdoors, (in summer we live in our tent) but between my overly sensitive skin and my tattoos, I’m very deliberate with my sunscreen application. I even apply 15 spf on cloudy/overcast days (I live at altitude – those UVA rays can sneak up on ya).
I’m still young enough to get id’ed on the regular, but my tattoos get a lot of attention. I haven’t had new ink in 4 years, but my (very colorful) work looks as fresh and vibrant as the day I left the parlor.
*Sigh* This article makes me lonesome for week long camping trips and new tattoos.
why are freckles gross? for thos eo fus prone to them, it makes us so sad to have people insulting us for having them-it’s not like wearing a certain hat or dress that you don’t like, ya know?-if we are fair skinned, avoid the sun and still have freckles, it is out of our control. why would ppl say oh gross? we would not say this to ppl of different races now adays….
it’s truly hurtful to think that the way you look repulses someone when you are out and about in your life. freckles may come out more int he sun, but some of us are just prone to them. esp us irish americans. though i have one sibling who got the darker skin who has no freckles, and the others are prone to freckles. c’est la vie. but it’s not always due to sun damage.
julianne looks good, freckles or not.
love freckles and she is just so great [to me, i know she isnt everyone’s cup of tea]
as for staying out of the sun, i stay out of the sun [i have lupus – so yeah] and i just adjust for that life change [vitamins in pill form, liquid or through great fruits and vegetables, little red meat]
to each his own!
I garden a lot and I’m one who said avoid the sun. I meant hats (with good coverage), sunglasses, and 100+ SPF on your face, neck, chest and the backs of your hands. That’s what I do anytime I’m going to be working in the yard or hanging out on the deck in the back (which is also partially shaded).
My mother in law worshipped the sun her whole life. She’s 63 and easily looks 73. Because of all her tanning, she’s always looked older than her age, except when she was in her 20s. She’s paying the piper now. Her chest looks like old leather. Her hands look like wrinkled talons. She didn’t need to look that old that fast.
Well, too damn bad for me I guess! Im leaving for Uvalde for my family camping trip and plan to be in the sunshine, sun up til sun down Hell yeah!
She is really beautiful and, it seems, inside and out.
I said to too & i stand by it! Like I also said, its impossible to stay out of the sun 100%, but it is very important to be smart about sun exposure. I have friends who’ve had cancerous growths removed when they were in their early 20s. My dad has had so many removed that hes lost count of them all.
@MissyAggravation ~ I am RELIGIOUS about covering up my tattoos in the sun or, at the very least, slathering those suckers in sunscreen. It makes me sad to see great ink all faded out
That is news for WHITE women only. I am 55, woman of color and LOOKING GOOD. The blacker the berry, the sweeter the Juice; and Haven’t you heard, when you treat it right ~ black don’t crack (no wrinkles, no need for botox.
Truth hurts.
She is beautiful. And yes, staying out of the sun is helpful, but don’t we need to get a little sun for our health? I know I do. I get seasonal depression if I can’t see sunlight at least a little bit. Doesn’t mean you can’t protect yourself with sunscreen or whatever. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Actually it shouldn’t be news to anyone, white or black. Prolonged sun exposure is bad for everyone, as anyone can get skin cancer.
Love to see the face that thinks Julianne looks like a 60 year old vampire. Persons of colour have much more melanin, thus making they’re skin and hair dark, and darkening them more when in the sun.A friend I’ve had since teen years is very fair, when in sun she burns very easily as well her freckles multiply, we’ve joked for years that she doesn’t actually tan, her freckles only “join together”. I’m not a sun bather as I find it extremely booooring, but I am active in the sun. I’ve always used a good sun block as I am quite fair skinned myself, at 47 people always misjudge my age to be in my early to mid 30’s, I partied and smoked like an animal through my teens and 20’s, yet I don’t look leathery and wrinkled. I have always maintained an excellent exercise routine and I eat massive amounts of veggies and legumes. Drink lots of water or any non-caffeinated beverage, a lot of people don’t realise how caffeine dehydrates a person. Now that I’ve done with my lecture I must say that I think Julianne looks great, her face looks natural, no duck lips. Aging naturally is hot, plastic surgery and whatever other weird crap too many women with money do to themselves is simply PLASTIC and PHONEY, I say yuck to POSERS
Julianne Moore is 5’4″–she’s not tall and lithe. She;s lovely but it helps to have a good makeup artist, great stylist and photographer, lighting, airbrushing, and possibly a hit or two of botox. Come on people.
@Truth Fairy… Vitamin D is essential to help the body absorb and bond with Calcium for strong teeth and bones. THe only source of Vitamin D is the sun, this is true, but you only need 10-15 minutes a day of sun exposure. Ten minutes is like walking to get the paper, take your dog to poop, and come home.
Get the ten minutes, and then put on a hat!
Also, SPF above 25 is actually, scientifically meaningless. There were some good posts on here (maybe?) about that a little while ago. Google Badger cream or Badger sunscreen. All natural. Smells great.
She’s right, I’m 42 and I have nary a crowsfoot. 🙂
Tis my birthday, in fact. 😀
@karma is right re: “black don’t crack”. I live in a city with a very large population of African Americans and (if they take care of themselves) as a whole they definitely age better than whites. I’m friends with an African American lady who’s very fit and in her mid-60’s and people always think she’s 20-25 years younger. As a pale Caucasian, I know I won’t age as well. I’m 38 and I’ve worn sunscreen every day for the past 15 years and I still have some fine lines. Oh, well-I don’t like hats and I love the sun so I guess I’ll just have to deal!
I agree with Julianne Moore about 70’s clothing working well on those of us who don’t have waists. I’m shaped similarly to her (small hips, small boobs and no waist) and look awful in anything with a cinched or tapered waist. 1940’s and 1950’s era clothes look lousy on those of us with boyish figures.
“Staying out of the sun all the time leads to brittle bone disease. Look it up!”
Get a little sun, maybe a few minutes a day. Get the rest from vitamin D supplements. Take a calcium supplement with magnesium. Look it up.
Well she’s pale as all hell and lives in LA, so she can stay out of the sun. As long as she gets at least 15 minutes a day, and I’m sure she takes supplements, she’s fine.
MSat, me too – redhead, sun avoider my whole life, 40 years old and can’t buy a lottery ticket without getting carded.
I was looking at some of my graduating class from high school on Facebook a couple of nights ago, and OMG. So many of those sun worshiping girls I went to school with look like wrinkly leather handbags now. One in particular that I went to kindergarten with, I swear she looks about 50. 🙁
Happy Birthday MaudeLebowski! 🙂
Advise to looking great at 50: fotoshop!
Right Julianne? If you would look great you would not need any retouches or filters in your pictures! Don’t be delusional.
In real life this woman is full of orange freckles; in fact her pale skin is almost not visible because of them; nevertheless, the pictures are so retouched that they are not noticeable. I guess editors must think that freckles are ugly (or they needed to erase her wrinkles so much that the freckles disappeared as well).
I don’t care if she did have some re-touching…the woman looks FABULOUS!!!!
I am 46 and my partner is 48. We were at the gym about a month ago and a guy that regularly comes in and works out with the same trainer as we do, was talking about his 50th birthday and said to my partner, you must be close to my age, and he told him he was 48. Then he looked at me and said, you are much younger, have you turned 40 yet! Needless to say I now love this guy. So I have to agree with Julianne. I stay out of the sun most of the time and if I am in the sun I always wearing sunscreen. I also use a great moisturizer, and have since I was 20. It really pays off as you get older. Listen up 20 somethings and start now.
Working in cancer clinics, I have seen the ravages of melanoma and other skin cancers far too often to be comfortable lying out in the sun without sunscreen. I do love the feeling of baking in the sun though. I indulge myself to a beach day a few times a year, but I slather my entire body in La Roche Posay Anthelios SPF 60 every couple hours. That sunscreen has some truly magical superpowers. It was the one that the cancer clinic staff would recommend to former skin cancer sufferers. Good thing we only get a few months of summer where I live though. Otherwise I would be too tempted to go out in the sun in skimpy clothing everyday. LOVE the warmth of it on my skin. 🙁
i don’t think julianne was saying don’t go in the sun; i think she was saying be smart about it. of course sunshine is good for you – who doesn’t like the feeling of sun on their skin? although here in seattle we don’t get nearly enough of it! i am a pale skinned brunette and burn like a lobster without sunblock. i wear it religiously, along with hats, sunglasses, rice paper parasol, etc. as a result of being careful i also get mistaken for being in my early 30s (i am 42). my best friend is 41 and from san diego. she spent years laying in the sun and now she looks at least 10 years older than me.
some people are so literal. She means protect yourself from the sun and don’t sunbathe. She doesn’t stay inside her house 24/7. I had the pleasure of working a film with her and she is so freaking cool. She does the sunscreen, hat, and coverups thing. My mom does the same thing and she doesn’t look like she’s anywhere near her sixties.
LOVE HER – Go ivory skinned ladies!
I stay out of the sun for certain periods of the day because it get sun poisoning if I let myself burn. Being outside is great, but people of my complexion just can’t tolerate too much sun. People think I am way younger than I am as well, and stying out of the sun keeps your eyes looking less wrinkly for starters.
I’m a Medical Resident, and just wanted to inject some medical reality into this vit. d/brittle bone debate.
Brittle Bone Disease (osteogenesis imperfecta) is a genetic disease that keeps the body from making the proper connective tissue proteins. It has nothing at all to do with sunlight or Vitamin D.
Regarding Vitamin D, if you ever leave your house in the daytime or ever drive your car in the daytime, or ever sit near a window in the daytime, you are getting a baseline amount of Vitamin D. If you are interested in having more (for potential anti-carcinogenic benefits or otherwise), supplement.
Someone like Julianne who uses sunscreen and makes an effort to avoid constant sun exposure is brilliant, from a medical perspective. I was surprised to see how many people said “OMG! Vitamin D!!”.
This stay outta the sun stuff may hold some truth but I don’t think it’s the silver bullet people make it out to be. My mom is 58 and gets mistaken for her late 40s, and same goes for her two sisters. Peoples mouths drop when they tell their ages. *and* They are all fair, with blonde hair and blue eyes, and none of them have ever worn any sunscreen or hats or any of that! They’re all outdoorsy women and have been their whole lives. I remember my aunts laying out in the sun too. I really think it’s more about genetics, and maybe, keeping a youthful lifestyle. The only other thing I can think of is none of the women in my family have ever smoked.
ok first of all, her face has been seriously photoshopped! if you watched her recent movie, the kids are alright’, ud know she has LOTS more wrinkles than that! Even so, in real life, she STILL looks GREAT for 50 so they shouldnt have messed with the pictures.
2nd of all, its NOT advisable to stay out of the sun ALL THE TIME! Did u know that doctors/surgeons have the highest rate of LEUKEMIA, more than any other profession, becuz they NEVER see the sun? Theyre in the hospital at sunrise, and out after dark.
Our family doctor got leukemia himself, and his biggest piece of advice for us, is to get 10min of sun exposure per day.