Name: Julianne Moore Talks 'Freeheld'
Uploaded: 2016-08-23T13:30:03.000Z
Duration: 2 min 50 s
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- Let's talk about "Freeheld..." - Yes, please.

To-infinitive

everyone goes to see this movie. - Me too.

- It's so good. You're great. - It is. Yeah. Thank you.

- Ellen Page is great. Steve Carell is great.

- Yeah, it is the story of Laurel Hester and Stacie Andree,

the women who changed the Domestic Partnership Act

Laurel was a police detective who is diagnosed

with lung cancer and wanted to leave her pension benefits

- It's amazing 'cause she was not an activist,

and then she ran up against this thing when she's dying...

come out and speak out against this, you know...

lose her hou--our house... - That's right, our house.

- The house--the life that they had built together.

- Everything. Yeah. - And they really, you know,

Edie Windsor said that Laurel Hester was a hero

because she demanded to be treated like everybody else.

It wasn't like--and there was no special treatment involved.

It really was what, by all rights, should have been theirs.

this is a true story, and these are real people,

and also we're lucky enough to have the real Stacie Andree

and Dane Wells, who was Laurel's police partner,

They're sitting right there. - Yay. Where are they?

Congratulations. - Wait a minute, where are they?

and what they did for us, what Stacie and Dane did

with, you know, they basically opened their homes

and were on the phone with us and talked to us

because Ellen and I wanted to get it right. You know?

get it right. - It was, I mean, Portia and I

and especially when the real pictures came up

- It was--so Ellen--so it was at first, it's kind of like,

There was a big age difference between the two of you.

- And it's amazing 'cause Ellen Page had just come out.

- Yeah, exactly. - So, she actually got to

which would have been really tough for her

if she hadn't been. - I think so, and I think

it was a meaningful project because she had been attached

- And it meant so much to her personally,

and it was meaningful for me to talk to Ellen

about her experiences, and for her to talk about

what it means to be closeted and to then come out,

and what are the repercussions in your personal life,

It was a really special special experience.

- Yeah, it was great, and you had great chemistry.

I hope everyone sees it 'cause it is not--

I hope people don't think it's a gay movie.

- Yeah, it's about love. - It's just a movie about love.