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Julianne Moore Knows to "Trust the Man"

By Jenny Peters
August 8, 2006 - Los Angeles

What's a gal to do when her husband writes a romantic comedy called "Trust the Man?" If you're three-time Oscar nominee Julianne Moore, you actually beg him to be in it.

"He actually had someone in mind initially for this who turned it down, and he was thinking about who to go to next," said Moore. "I mean, he was always open to my doing it, but we thought that maybe he should work with someone else and that that'd be nice and whatever."

"So he gave it to this [actress] and this person said no, and then we were in bed one night and I finally piped up and said, 'You know what, I would be really sorry if I didn't get to do this. I really like this movie. I like this part a lot, and if it's okay I'd like to play the part.' He was like, 'Yeah, yeah.' So that's how it happened. I approached him!"

Moore doesn't usually have to beg for work, as she remains one of Hollywood's most in-demand actresses, despite having hit her 45th birthday. But she didn't see this as begging, exactly; more as a chance to shoot a funny film about a character - a New York-based actress, in fact - that has many elements of her real life woven into her story.

"I liked playing a person who has a job acting, who you see that her regular life - she has this family and they live in New York and she goes to do her job. What was nice about playing an actress in this movie is that there are some things in our lives, really pedestrian things," Moore chuckled, chatting easily with reporters during interviews in New York City promoting the film.

"I mean, you're still living a regular life, you're still married and you still have children, you still have family obligations and all of that kind of stuff that you still have, and if you're in the middle of an argument, someone on the street might start pointing at you and saying, 'Hey, aren't you the one from the - whatever.' So that's just part of our lives," she shrugged.

The beautiful actress even was willing to put some very real elements of her life into "Trust the Man," including shots of her wearing a retainer on her teeth - not exactly the most glamorous look for an "A" list movie star!

"I do use my own retainer in the film," she laughed. "There were no fake retainers used in the movie!"

The comedy co-stars David Duchovny as her husband, as well as Billy Crudup and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and opens August 18 in selected theaters across the country.

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