Julianne Moore attended the premiere of Apple Original’s “Echo Valley” on Wednesday, June 4 alongside her son Caleb Freundlich in their hometown of New York City. The Oscar-winning actor stars alongside Sydney Sweeney in Michael Pearce’s latest film, written by “Mare of Easttown” scribe Brad Inglesby.
The story follows “so much about this woman’s life, about what she wants, what she’s lost, what she’s trying to hang on to, and I think that she’s at a point where she really feels that she has nothing left to lose,” she told IndieWire. “When you have stakes like that in a film, it’s exciting. That’s what I’m drawn to, isn’t it?”
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Director Pearce mused that working with Moore was one of his highlights of the project. “Working with Julianne, someone that’s so experienced, seeing her have the excitable energy of a 20-something-year-old actor who was on their first set, she was like that almost every day — I think that was just edifying,” he told us.
“As a director, you can get so neurotic and beaten by the process, and the schedule’s hard, and you lose the location, or you didn’t get a full scene, and you can walk in a bit broken,” he said. “She was just a reminder each day about why we do it, that we’re here to have fun, to play, and we should feel privileged to make movies. I think that’s just something I think about, that however hard it is, it’s like you’re in a sandbox for adults.”
As for Moore, she recently attended the Cannes premiere of Wes Anderson’s “The Phoenician Scheme” on May 18. I asked her if she would ever be interested in working with the auteur and she said, “I would. I think it would be so wonderful. Everybody’s work is so stellar in that film.” As someone who has attended the festival upwards of a dozen times, the excitement doesn’t wane. “One of the exciting things about Cannes is that you stand there as the film premieres and you get to look at the actors and filmmakers’ faces as it’s happening and it’s incredible.”
Moore recently told us that she will indeed be showing off her vocal chops in Jesse Eisenberg’s upcoming A24 musical, a follow-up to singing a little bit in 2021’s “Dear Evan Hansen”: “Yes, I am. I’m singing. We’re all singing in it,” she said.
“Jesse Eisenberg is just the most extraordinary person,” she continued. “He’s so incredibly creative. I feel so fortunate to be able to work with him. This is very different, but I think that he can have sort of a satirical worldview. At the end of the day, he’s got so much feeling. We’re all very excited about it.”
“Echo Valley” premieres June 13 on Apple TV+. Check out the trailer below.
