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Best Actress Frontrunner Julianne Moore Nailed ‘The Debut’ by Singing, Styling Her Hair Like Liza Minnelli, and Avoiding Playing ‘Some Suffering Mom’

The Oscar winner asked Jesse Eisenberg to write her a role that allowed her to do comedy. It could lead to her second statue.

Paul Giamatti and Julianne Moore in "The Debut"

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“Hello, I’m Julie,” said a radiant Julianne Moore, holding out her hand as she popped out of the elevator at Middleburg, Virginia’s Salamander Resort. Her hair was red, her skin was white, her dress as yellow as gold. A few hours later after a rapturous Middleburg Film Festival reaction to “The Debut” (December 11), we talked in a hotel meeting room.…