Julianne Moore plays another powerful role in Freeheld

Another powerful role has Julianne Moore playing a real-life policewoman who campaigned for the rights of same-sex partners, writes Helen Barlow

ONE might think that after her Oscar-winning portrayal as an Alzheimer’s-afflicted academic in Still Alice that Julianne Moore might have had enough of fading away before our eyes on screen. Yet here she is in Freeheld playing terminally ill with lung cancer as the real-life decorated New Jersey detective Laurel Hester, fighting so that her earned pension benefits can go to her partner Stacie Andree (Ellen Page).

“I think it’s a coincidence,” Moore admits. “I was just so happy to get these two great roles.”