The Cut - Julianne Moore’s Dangerous Housewives

It’s one of those miserable cement-gray December afternoons in Manhattan when no one wants to leave the house, so of course there’s just one other person in the Greenwich Village restaurant where Julianne Moore and I meet for lunch: a petite older woman having a pot of tea. Even so, the construction noise outside is distracting. Moore gets up to ask the host if there’s anything we can do to improve our chances of hearing each other, when suddenly squeals of reunion abound. I can hear snatches of the conversation — Moore updating the stranger on the sizes and ages of her children (so big!), the welfare of her husband (really good!), how everything’s been (not bad!). In the 40 seconds since we last spoke, Moore discovered the tea drinker is actually one of her friends: the Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Blythe Danner.

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