Julianne Moore Talks About Being Drawn Into the ‘Stakes’ of ‘Echo Valley’ — and Expresses a Desire to Work with Wes Anderson | rssama.com

Julianne Moore attended nan premiere of Apple Original’s “Echo Valley” connected Wednesday, June 4 alongside her boy Caleb Freundlich successful their hometown of New York City. The Oscar-winning character stars alongside Sydney Sweeney successful Michael Pearce’s latest film, written by “Mare of Easttown” scribe Brad Inglesby.

The communicative follows “so overmuch astir this woman’s life, astir what she wants, what she’s lost, what she’s trying to bent connected to, and I deliberation that she’s astatine a constituent wherever she really feels that she has thing near to lose,” she told IndieWire. “When you person stakes for illustration that successful a film, it’s exciting. That’s what I’m drawn to, isn’t it?”

Director Pearce mused that moving pinch Moore was 1 of his highlights of nan project. “Working pinch Julianne, personification that’s truthful experienced, seeing her person nan excitable power of a 20-something-year-old character who was connected their first set, she was for illustration that almost each time — I deliberation that was conscionable edifying,” he told us.

“As a director, you tin get truthful neurotic and beaten by nan process, and nan schedule’s hard, and you suffer nan location, aliases you didn’t get a afloat scene, and you tin locomotion successful a spot broken,” he said. “She was conscionable a reminder each time astir why we do it, that we’re present to person fun, to play, and we should consciousness privileged to make movies. I deliberation that’s conscionable thing I deliberation about, that nevertheless difficult it is, it’s for illustration you’re successful a sandbox for adults.”

As for Moore, she precocious attended nan Cannes premiere of Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” connected May 18. I asked her if she would ever beryllium willing successful moving pinch nan auteur and she said, “I would. I deliberation it would beryllium truthful wonderful. Everybody’s activity is truthful stellar successful that film.” As personification who has attended nan show upwards of a twelve times, nan excitement doesn’t wane. “One of nan breathtaking things astir Cannes is that you guidelines location arsenic nan movie premieres and you get to look astatine nan actors and filmmakers’ faces arsenic it’s happening and it’s incredible.”

Moore precocious told us that she will so beryllium showing disconnected her vocal chops successful Jesse Eisenberg’s upcoming A24 musical, a follow-up to singing a small spot successful 2021’s “Dear Evan Hansen”: “Yes, I am. I’m singing. We’re each singing successful it,” she said.

“Jesse Eisenberg is conscionable nan astir bonzer person,” she continued. “He’s truthful incredibly creative. I consciousness truthful fortunate to beryllium capable to activity pinch him. This is very different, but I deliberation that he tin person benignant of a satirical worldview. At nan extremity of nan day, he’s sewage truthful overmuch feeling. We’re each very excited astir it.”

“Echo Valley” premieres June 13 connected Apple TV+. Check retired nan trailer below.