Julianne Moore Recalls Soapy Past While Accepting SAG Award

Kevin Polowy
·Senior Correspondent, Yahoo Entertainment
Updated

Soap operas can lead to SAG Awards. That was one lesson we took away from Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, which featured a charming speech by Julianne Moore in which the actress recalled her daytime beginnings on As the World Turns.

Accepting the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, the Still Alice star opened her speech by shouting out to the defunct CBS soap opera to hoots and hollers from the crowd. It was all to set up what Moore took from her experience on the daytime serial: “I was so excited when they wrote two parts for me, the classic twin sister role, the good and the evil one,” said Moore, who appeared on the soap between 1985 and 1988 as Frannie Hughes and her twin Sabrina. “I couldn’t wait to do it, and I was so excited. And then I realized that it was super boring to act by myself.”

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"And what I really loved, what I really craved, and what was most exciting for me was being with another actor and feeling that intimacy and that excitement and that thrill of getting to know somebody in that way. And that’s what keeps me coming back to acting again and again and again."

In that spirit, the actress went on to thank her Alice co-stars, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Hunter Parrish and Kate Bosworth, among them. Moore leads the ensemble as the title character, a happily married author and college professor whose life slowly unravels when she’s diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s.

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Moore isn’t the first former soap opera star to go onto SAG glory: Other famous alum of As the World Turns, which ran from 1956 until 2010 include four-time SAG winner Martin Sheen (The West Wing), SAG nominee Amanda Seyfried, and SAG’s 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, James Earl Jones.

Watch a clip of Moore on As the World Turns:

And then see a clip of her on the soap when she returned for a cameo in 2010:

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