She spent her childhood endlessly moving from place to place and then spent her early adulthood as a struggling actress in New York.
How did Julianne Moore then go on to win an Oscar and become a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
How did Julianne Moore then go on to win an Oscar and become a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
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00:00I do have a responsibility as an American citizen to speak about the things that I care about and become involved.
00:06I remember moving to Alaska when I was 10, and that was so, so very different for me.
00:32But then I had a lot of freedom, and it kind of woke me up.
00:50The worst thing that somebody told me, and I think it happens to many young actors, is that there was no way that I was going to be successful, that I would never make a living.
01:00And I remember thinking, like, well, how do you know?
01:30Honestly, I think as a parent and as a citizen, I realized that I wasn't being responsible if I didn't do something to keep my children and everybody's children safe.
01:59I think that the majority of Americans believe in common sense gun safety rules.
02:06I think the majority of gun owners believe in that, and it's only a matter of time before we're really able to safely change regulations.
02:29This is a disease that a lot of people are struggling with, that people don't know a lot about, so there was a dual challenge of kind of trying to understand the process, explain the process, and then also really represent it.
02:54Gloria Steinem always says that the definition of a feminist is a man or a woman that believes in the social, political, and economic equality of a woman.
03:05So, yeah, of course I'm a feminist.
03:23I'm a feminist.