Julianne Moore: Red Delicious On Redbook

The always beautiful actress Julianne Moore, 48,graces the cover of Redbook’s February issue, and she talks about family, being a working mom and her charity involvement with Save the Children.

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Here are a few highlights from the interview:

How she balances work and motherhood:

“I try to work in the summer, or shoot in New York City. I’ll try to come back every weekend, or schedule around school breaks. No one likes it, but you’re trying to make a living. People say, ‘Then don’t do it,’ but I do have a career. Every woman I know strives for flexibility, and I fortunately have a tremendous amount of it.”

Who’s more strict – Julianne or husband writer-director Bart Freundlich?

“We both are. But I think mums and dads get angrier at different things. When I talk to other mothers, they say that sometimes dads get mad at things that kids can’t help. If a kid is having a tantrum, dads will be, ‘Stop that right now.’ Mums will be like, ‘He’s out of control. You can’t discipline; you have to find a way to contain it.’ Whereas mums get angry if someone breaks a rule. The rule is: Don’t wipe dirty hands on the wall, and dads will say, ‘What’s the big deal?’”

How has becoming a mother changed her?

“You do learn a tremendous amount of patience. Children’s pace is glacial, and you can’t change that. Literally, just walking down the street with them, I thought I was going to tear my hair out, but that’s where they are. It’s not difficult to take care of a child; it’s difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying to clean up the kitchen after you’ve had a baby is a nightmare. You have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you’re exhausted, you don’t want to clean up the kitchen now. My kids still don’t like me to read the newspaper in the morning. I’ll be making their breakfast, and I’ll have The New York Times there and want to read it, and they’ll be like, ‘Mummy, Mummy, Mummy.’”

About her daughter Liv, 6:

“She’s incredible, so smart. She’s in first grade. I have these pictures of her at kindergarten, I’m sitting on a chair and she’s sitting on my lap and I’m talking in her ear and she looks so worried. Kindergarten is the hardest for me — that’s the year I cry. I walk out of that classroom and I burst into tears. They’re entering the school world.”

On11-year-old son Caleb’s braces & his birthday trip to Paris:

“My son had to go to the orthodontist to have his braces off yesterday. We celebrated by chewing gum.” And about his birthday:

“Two months ago, apropos of nothing, my son said, ‘Mummy, for our birthdays, instead of a party, let’s go to Paris, just the two of us.’ This is probably the last time in his life Cal will want to go somewhere alone with his mother. I was flattered and thrilled.”

On her charity work with Save the Children:

“A friend of mine is their artist-ambassador person. She gets people involved. I didn’t realise Save the Children had a U.S. program; it reaches communities through the public school system with after-school programs in nutrition, exercise, literacy. We moved a lot when I was little because my dad was in the military, and I went to one public school after another. I lived in Lincoln, Nebraska; Fayetteville, South Carolina; Juneau, Alaska; Falls Church, Virginia. In Juneau — I’ve told this story many times; it was a formative experience for me — there was a girl in my class. She looked different, very small for her age, very thin, eyes very wide; there was something wrong but no one knew what. I now realise she had fetal alcohol syndrome. It makes me want to cry. I look at our public school system and think there’s so much we can do to pick up the slack. So now I’m Save the Children’s U.S. ambassador.”

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