Week 4-Julianne Moore: Oscar winning Still Alice role taught me that Alzheimer's can't kill a person's soul
09:00, 6 March 2015 By Alun Palmer
When her moment of glory arrived it was well overdue.
Nominated four times before – for Boogie Nights, The End Of The Affair, The Hours and Far From Heaven – Julianne Moore finally bagged a Best Actress Oscar last month.
In Still Alice, she plays a highly respected Columbia University linguistics expert who starts to get lost on her regular jogging runs and, ironically, begins to grasp for words.
In a devastating diagnosis, she finds she has early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
Since the film’s American release she has been touched by viewer’s reactions.
She said: “I got a note from a friend of mine’s wife saying she’d had a family member with Alzheimer’s too, and she suddenly felt close to her and felt like she understood something about the experience.
“For me, after all the research that I did, people have this notion that with Alzheimer’s, somehow the ‘self’ disappears. They’re like, ‘That’s not the person I knew,’ and ‘Somehow the self has gone away, somehow they’re not present anymore’.
“But in all my research and dealings with people, I’ve found the opposite. The people, they were changed, certainly, but their personality somehow remained. That was really, tremendously moving to me.”
Moore, 54, spent four months researching the role, speaking to sufferers and their relatives, immersing herself fully into the disease.
“I started watching everything I could get my hands on,” she said.
“Every film, documentary and interview. The head of the national Alzheimer’s Association talked about her
experiences and then they set up these Skype calls with three women across the country — all who had been diagnosed with early onset, or what they call ‘younger onset’, which means before the age of 65.
“And the youngest person I spoke to was a woman who was diagnosed at 45, which was astonishing.”
● Still Alice is released today.
Source:http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/julianne-moore-oscar-winning-still-5280850
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WHAT-Julianne Moore finally bagged a Best Actress Oscar last month.
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Keywords：
1.Alzheimer’s disease 阿茲海默症
2.linguistics 語言學
3.documentary 記錄片
4.onset 發作
