In a 2015 New Yorker interview with John Lahr, May December star Julianne Moore explained her acting strategy: “I always have to find the place where a character cries,” she said.
I became so annoyed by Todd Haynes’ half-campy, Savannah-based domestic drama that I quickly stopped caring why Moore’s character, Grace, who is somehow able to afford a fairly flush lifestyle in a beautiful seaside home on the modest earnings of a dessert-baking business, was upset about anything.
But Moore’s first crying scene is definitely weird because she’s weeping hysterically over one of her clients canceling a cake order. My first thought was “a cancellation hiccup causes a major meltdown? God, she’s a borderline psycho.”
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