Movie a family affair for Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore, above, is accustomed to working with her husband, director Bart Freundlich, on set, but it was a real family affair when their daughter joined them for their latest collaboration.
Liv Freundlich, 17, was a production assistant on “After the Wedding,” which was released earlier this month.
“We loved having her around more than she loved being around,” Freundlich said. “The best part of it was just getting to be with each other constantly.”
The film, written and directed by Freundlich, is a remake of director Susanne Bier’s hit Dutch movie of the same name. To put his own stamp on it, Freundlich swapped the gender of the two leads to women, using Moore and Michelle Williams. Billy Crudup plays a role that was portrayed by a woman in the original.
In the movie, Williams plays Isabel, an orphanage volunteer living in India who comes to the United States to ask Moore’s character, Theresa, to fund her organization. She ends up attending a wedding for Theresa’s daughter and meets Theresa’s husband, played by Crudup, whom she has a history with. Moore also served as a producer.
“I’m usually used to going home and dropping it,” Moore said. “But for a director it’s constant. The amount of work that they have to do is really extraordinary. So, we would talk about it in the car on the way home, we would talk about it before we would go to bed, we would talk about it first thing in the morning. But, like I said, it was a shared passion, too, so that was wonderful.”