{"id":85694,"date":"2024-01-15T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T01:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=245450"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T13:19:32","slug":"2024-critics-choice-julianne-moore","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/2024-critics-choice-julianne-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimme Moore: Julianne Moore Is Back In Chanel On The Red Carpet After A 5 Year Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julianne Moore at The 29th Critics’ Choice Awards held at The Barker Hangar on January 14, 2024 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk\/WWD via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

How to measure a period of five years, you ask. It\u2019s almost the length of time it took Bradley Cooper to create Maestro<\/em><\/a>. Or, more fittingly, the span between the most recent and last times Julianne Moore<\/a> wore Chanel on the red carpet. After a half-decade hiatus, the 63-year-old legendary actress has returned to the French luxuriate, opting for a Haute Couture creation worthy of every second of screen time.<\/p>\n

Taking to the 29th annual Critics Choice Awards<\/a>, Moore evoked the essence of Karl Lagerfeld\u2019s tenure at the French luxuriate with a strapless purple charmeuse gown adorned with a gilded crucifix. The statement bejewelled fixture was quite literally the centrepiece of Moore\u2019s ensemble, with the cross littered with high-octane precious gemstones and dropped pearls.<\/p>\n

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SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 14: Julianne Moore attends the 29th Annual Critics Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on January 14, 2024 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Critics Choice Association)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moore walked the red carpet ahead of the highly-anticipated ceremony where she is nominated for her portrayal as \u201cGracie\u201d in Todd Haynes\u2019 critically acclaimed May December<\/em><\/a>. Her performance may be one of the most internationally lauded, but on the red carpet, Moore decided to sartorially reference the January blues in her indigo gown.<\/p>\n

Moore\u2019s co-star, Natalie Portman<\/a>, did not attend the critic-determined event, leaving Moore to represent the film with her on-screen husband Charles Melton. Earlier in the week, Moore and Portman dismissed the disapproval of Vili Fualaau who claimed that Haynes \u201cchose to do a ripoff of my original story\u201d.<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated, May December<\/em> is an original story partly inspired by Fualaau\u2019s relationship with his late ex-wife and former school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau. The couple began an illegal sexual relationship in 1996 when Fualaau was only 12 years old. Letourneau was 34 at the time and was subsequently arrested and convicted of second-degree rape of a child for the crime.<\/p>\n

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Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore in Todd Haynes’ May December<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fualaau, now 40, told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> that he was \u201coffended by the entire project and lack of respect given\u201d to him. \u201cI\u2019m still alive and well,\u201d he added. \u201cIf they had reached out to me, we could have worked together on a masterpiece. Instead, they chose to do a ripoff of my original story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding to his concerns, the film\u2019s leads denied the claim that May December<\/em> appropriated his life, with Portman asserting that the film is \u201cits own story \u2014 it\u2019s not meant to be a biopic\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not based on them,\u201d the Dior ambassador continued. \u201cObviously their story influenced the culture that we all grew up in and influenced the idea. But it\u2019s fictional characters that are really brought to life by Julianne Moore and Charles Melton so beautifully.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore also added that Haynes \u201cwas always very clear when we were working on this movie that this was an original story.\u201d \u201cThis was a story about these characters,\u201d she noted. \u201cThat\u2019s how we looked at it too. This was our document. We created these characters from the page.\u201d<\/p>\n

May December<\/em> arrives in Australian theatres next month on February 1st. To acquaint yourself with the subject matter, read GRAZIA\u2019s deep dive into the film\u2019s true story here<\/a>, and watch the trailer below.<\/p>\n