PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVID ROEMER/TRUNKARCHIVE.COM/SNAPPER MEDIA; SPLASH NEWS; GETTY IMAGES.68 marieclaire.com.aupicket fences, there is marital murder
and mayhem. But it’s the film’s backdrop
that intrigues. An African-American
family move next door to the Lodge
household, sparking violent racial con-
flict. It’s inspired by real events that took
place in Levittown, Pennsylvania, in- “You see what happens when peo-
ple are exclusionary and pursue their
own desires to the bitter, bitter end,”
says Moore. After the recent racial
clashes in Charlottesville, she laments
that the film has “turned out to be
remarkably prescient”.
Moore is not afraid to talk politics.
A Democrat, Hillary Clinton supporter
and very much a part of Hollywood’s
liberal elite, she has spoken out on
everything from gun control to gay rights. After
Donald Trump became America’s President
earlier this year, she went on the Women’s
March in Washington D.C. with her husband
and daughter. “It was important for me as a hu-
man being to go to the Women’s March,” she
says. From the President’s plan to defund wom-
en’s health clinic Planned Parenthood (Moore is
a board member) to repealing Obamacare,
Moore says his presence has gone beyond a joke.
“I don’t feel you can ever poke fun at Trump,”
she says. “I don’t think Trump is funny at all.
I never thought he was. I never thought he
was during the primaries. I never thought
he was when he got the nomination. I always
thought he was dangerous and someone who
should be eradicated from our government. You
need people who have ability. He doesn’t have
any ability to be President. [We need] people
who have experience and ... a
clear and calm head, but he’s
irrational and dangerous.”
When it comes to the gender
equality and pay-gap issues in
Hollywood, Moore sees things
“I don’t think
Trump is funny at
all. He’s irrational
and dangerous”in wider terms. “This is something that’s
endemic to the whole world,” she says. “Unfortu-
nately, they just voted down a measure to have
business’ payrolls examined. Ivanka Trump was
one of the people who was opposed to it, and she
is someone who is supposedly a proponent of
equal pay for work. I do think that all of us have
to be held responsible for our actions. As 50 per
cent of the population, we deserve to be paid the
same. In every endeavour.”
In 2012, Moore won an Emmy for playing
the controversial Republican Sarah Palin in the
TV movie Game Change, and she admits art is a
great way to tackle political and social issues.
But, for now, Moore is content to let her
world play out as it will. “I think for any of us it’s
impossible to plan. But I do look forward just
because I know there have been so many chang-
es in my life. Every 10 years there are different
changes. Now my children are 15 and 19. In 10
years they will be 25 and 29.” She
smiles at the thought. “That’s a
whole other stage of life for them,
and for me and my husband.”
Suburbicon opens on Oct 26.
Wonderstruck is released Dec 14.Top left: Alexandre
Desplat, Matt Damon,
Moore and George
Clooney on the
red carpet for the
Suburbicon screening
at the 74th Venice Film
Festival in September
in Italy; and (above
left) Moore on the set
of Suburbicon in Los
Angeles last year.INTERVIEW