Executive producer/star Pierce Brosnan was instrumental in casting his "Laws of Attraction" female counterpart. "We needed an actress who could communicate depth and possessed more than meets the eye – otherwise why would she be so beguiling to Daniel? I really to wanted to work with the best actress we could find, and truly we got the best in Julianne Moore," says Brosnan.
Director Peter Howitt praises his leading lady for making Audrey into a compelling character. "Early on in the shoot I noticed Julianne doing things that I didn’t expect. Every day on the set, she got me more interested in Audrey," raves Howitt.
JULIANNE MOORE INTERVIEW:
How did your husband feel about you kissing Pierce Brosnan in this movie?
The thing about the whole movie thing and being with guys and stuff, everyone's husband - everyone I know - hates it, hates it. And they make a lot of noise about it and they won't come to the set and they say, “How many times do you have to kiss him and what do you have to do and are you in bed with him ever?” I mean, it's completely unreasonable, but Steven Spielberg is this way about Kate [Capshaw]. He hates it when she has to kiss anyone and you always want to say, “Honey, it's just a job. It's just a job.”
Your character turns to food when she’s stressed. Do you have a ‘crisis’ food and if so, what is it?
Candy. That's why I could relate to her.
What type of candy?
Just about anything. I like cakes and cookies and, actually, ice cream. I like a lot of ice cream. There wasn’t any ice cream eating in this because it’s hard to eat ice cream in movies. It goes all over the place.
What’s the worst thing you had to eat in this movie?
The Snowballs were the worst because they are shockingly dry. It was terrible and they got them in Ireland where they'd been sitting on a shelf for God knows how long. They don't sell that stuff. They had to find some specialty American disgusting store. They're not what I remembered as a kid. I used to love that stuff when I was a kid.
You’ve done comedy before, but what was it like working on this romantic comedy?
This was the first time that I'd done straight-up romantic comedy. I've never come across one, and I never had one that I liked so much before. I really liked this. I thought that it was kind of interesting, and believe it or not, although in this movie these two people accidentally get married - you know how that happens all the time - but other than that, I found that it was sort of within the realm of the possible. These very professional people meet each other and kind of gradually fall for each other. It's about learning how to take responsibility for your personal life. He says,”'If this is something that you want, you have to work at it. You can't just expect it to happen. It takes some effort and some need.”
What’s the secret to marital longevity?
I don't know. I've only been married like six months or something. I got married last August [laughing]. I don't know if there is a secret to it. You simply need to make time for each other. Everybody’s busy. Everybody works, we have children, we have lives, and the thing that I think ruins more relationships, it's that lack of contact. You cannot spend a lot of time away from the person that you're married to and expect your relationship to work. And I'm talking on a daily basis, a weekly basis, you simply have to have contact every day.
How did you get into playing the part of a lawyer?
Well, my father is a lawyer, my sister is a lawyer, [and] that kind of helps. I think that a lot of the people that I know, a lot of the professional people are lawyers and stuff. I'm not unlike her in that I think if you work really hard and you play by the rules and you do it right - this is how you do it. I think that a lot of people who are in law are like that, too. It's very structured. It's just that there are theatrics to it particularly in trial law and stuff, but there is structure. It's like, “This is the rule, and this is what I do.” She was very much on point that way.
PAGE 2: Julianne Moore on Romantic Comedies, Ireland, and Onscreen Chemistry
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