Julianne Moore<\/a> is one of the outstanding character actresses of American cinema. She possesses remarkable versatility and, time and again, manages to captivate us with her intense portrayals of the characters she plays.<\/p>\n“No matter which film we see her in, we find ourselves rooting for her characters.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIn the wonderful film The Debut, she delivers a brilliant performance as a woman who realises it\u2019s not too late to fulfil her deeply personal dream: becoming an actress. It is Julianne Moore\u2019s love letter to her own profession \u2013 and thus the perfect film with which to thank her, with our Golden Icon Award, for so many wonderful cinematic experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPast recipients of the Golden Icon Award include Kate Winslet, Sylvester Stallone and Sharon Stone.<\/p>\n
\nThe Zurich Film Festival takes place in Switzerland from 24 September until 4 October.<\/p>\n
\nThe Debut centres around a shy woman who loses herself in the world of theatre after being unexpectedly cast in a production of an original musical. Writer-and-director Jesse recently admitted he had written the role specially for Julianne and would have pulled the plug on the project without her.<\/p>\n
\nSpeaking at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechia, he said: “I was thinking, ‘If she doesn\u2019t do this movie, it won\u2019t get made, because she\u2019s the only person on the planet who could do this thing.’ Which is a mistake as a writer. You don\u2019t write for a movie star because chances are they\u2019re busy, or don\u2019t want to do it, and then you\u2019re screwed. But with this, I was like, ‘I will only do this movie if Julianne says yes.’<\/p>\n
\n“And I was so scared halfway through the script. I was telling my friend, ‘God, this is so awful, because only one person could do this part \u2014 and if she doesn\u2019t like it, I\u2019m screwed.’ So, it\u2019s for her, but it\u2019s also about my own experiences.”<\/p>\n
\nJesse also rejected suggestions that the movie is a musical.<\/p>\n
\nThe Social Network actor said: “No, the movie is not a musical in the sense that the characters break into song. The movie is about this woman who gets a part in a musical, and so you see her rehearse for it and you see her opening night. But no, it\u2019s not a straightforward musical, which I think the movie studio is happy about.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 September 2026 Julianne Moore will be honoured for her “extraordinary career” at the Zurich Film Festival. Julianne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[60744,60725,51],"class_list":["post-124278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-jesse-eisenberg","tag-julianne-moore","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117200899566323099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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