00:00I'm Julianne Moore and I'm a woman in Hollywood.
00:03So the Hollywood moment that still amazes me
00:05is the first time that I was nominated for an Oscar.
00:07It was an interesting time in my life
00:09because I was so busy with the baby in my life
00:13and I had a treadmill in my garage
00:16and then I went into my garage and I ran on the treadmill
00:18and then boom, the nomination came in
00:20and I was like, I just got nominated for an Oscar.
00:23Like I can't believe it.
00:26It was just really, really shocking.
00:31To make it in Hollywood, that's a tough one.
00:33You know, what's the definition of making it?
00:36What do you mean by making it?
00:37Does that mean that you are satisfied
00:39with the work that you're doing?
00:40Does that mean that you're working with the people
00:42that you wanna work with,
00:43telling the stories that you wanna tell?
00:44Does that mean that you are able to make a living doing it?
00:47I think that there are lots of ways to define making it.
00:50I think you have to think about what it is
00:53that you care about.
00:54What it is that you're pursuing,
00:56what your goals are, what fuels you
00:58and you have to kind of figure out
01:02what that is for yourself in order to achieve it.
01:06The project that changed the trajectory of my career
01:09was Safe, Todd Haynes' film
01:13that I was so, so lucky to get.
01:15I really spent the first decade of my career
01:17working primarily in television
01:20and doing some off-Broadway and fringy things
01:23and wasn't able to book a feature.
01:25And then suddenly, along came independent film
01:28and there was this movie that I desperately wanted
01:31and auditioned for and I got.
01:32And it really changed everything for me.
01:34It changed the way that I wanted to work,
01:36it changed how people perceived me
01:38and it really was the beginning of my film career.
01:41When other women see me on screen,
01:44I hope they see themselves
01:46because I think that that's what film is.
01:48I think that we go to the movies
01:49to see ourselves reflected, to see our own stories,
01:52to kind of receive validation for our own human frailties.
01:58And when we see that,
01:59when we recognize ourselves in a character,
02:02we feel known, we feel less alone.
02:06So I think that that's why we do it.
02:08I know that that's what I get out of watching the movies.
02:10I get a sense of being part of a human community
02:13so I hope that that's what women get out of watching me.
02:17I don't know about the future of Hollywood
02:19in terms of what the business model is,
02:23but what I do know is that we continue to look for stories
02:25that are interesting and stories that are human
02:27and stories that are entertaining
02:29and that always persists.
02:31So that is what goes on and on and on.
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