Julianne Moore is gearing up to accept an award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. But there’s one thing she isn’t gearing up to do: nip or tuck.
Actress Julianne Moore has spent more than 15 years on the silver screen capturing four Oscar nominations and countless critical nods along the way. This acclaim has culminated in a “Montecito Award,” which she’ll receive February 11 during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California.
Moore entered the spotlight in 1993 with two notable supporting roles in Short Cuts and The Fugitive. From there, she commanded notice in The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, The End of the Affair, The Hours and Far From Heaven. Most recently she has appeared in A Single Man and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.
Moore is attractive and classically trained; she doesn’t belong to the category of actresses who come from modeling or pop music. And Moore, now 49 and the mother of two, is a naturally small woman who has always maintained her figure without much apparent effort.
“I would never ever have plastic surgery. We’re all just going way too far,” she told the UK’s Daily Mail in 2004. “I know it’s a product of the whole celebrity industry, but it’s something I absolutely detest. I want my daughter to see what is real, not what is unachievable and fake. I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes and you only get to be real by being imperfect.”
In 2008, MakeMeHeal.com quoted Moore, now a little older, admitting “I never say never” about cosmetic surgery. Even then, though, she proved she hadn’t abandoned her former stance.
“The only thing that worries me – the analogy I use is ancient Chinese feet-binding,” she said. “At what point did they decide that small feet were more beautiful? People started making them smaller and smaller until they were stumps and not beautiful at all. I feel we have decided that being expressionless and young looking is the most beautiful thing and, in pursuit of that, it becomes more and more exaggerated and totally obliterates what we look like.”
She may never say “never” about having plastic surgery, but she doesn’t give signals of ever becoming a devoted customer.
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