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Julianne Moore has recently expressed shock and sadness over her book, Freckleface Strawberry, being banned from schools run by the Department of Defense. This decision was reportedly made under Trump’s administration.
The Magnolia actress shared the news on her Instagram account, stating that she never expected to see such a ban in a country where freedom of speech is a constitutional right. She reflected on her own experiences of growing up as a child whose father served in the military. She wrote,
“I grew up with a father who is a Vietnam veteran and spent his career in the #USArmy. I could not be prouder of him and his service to our country.”
She added that she is disappointed to see that the children with a similar background,
“Will not have access to a book written by someone whose life experience is so similar to their own.”
Her father, Peter Moore Smith was reportedly a military veteran who fought in the Vietnam War. As per a report in Today, he was a paratrooper in the U.S. Army.
According to a report in the Culturs magazine she mentioned that because of her father’s profession, she moved throughout multiple countries which helped her to become a better actor. Her mother, Anne Love Smith, was Scottish. She was reportedly a psychologist and social worker.
Julianne Moore is a renowned actress, but do you know how moving from place to place helped shape her career? Let us understand it in detail.
Julianne Moore’s father’s profession as a paratrooper played a major role in her career
According to a report in Today which was published in 2021, Julianne Moore shared that “her globetrotting childhood helped her become a better actor.”
The 64-year-old actress was born at Fort Bragg, the U.S. Army installation in North Carolina, as per the report. Her family frequently moved due to her father’s profession who was a paratrooper in the US Army.
“For me, I think what I saw was that people believed that identity was solid and somehow about where you were from. It's like, ‘You are this,’” Moore said in her interview with Willie Geist.
She added:
“We define ourselves by the town we're from, where we grow up, where we go to school, who we are friends with and it feels like that's somehow you and it's not, because its changeable, its mutable.”
The report added that since Moore had to frequently change schools, it allowed her to study different characters of people.
“Because you go to another town and people have others kinds of behaviors, that doesn't mean that they're different from you. It just means their behavior is different, so you're always looking at behavioral differences and then you're looking for a universality of experience.” She said.
In a 2006 interview with Time magazine, when Moore was asked how her moving to places helped her connect with her role as Nadia in her Broadway debut, The Vertical Hour, she said,
“I certainly have a sense of the world being much bigger than my own experience of it. There’s a global sense I have because of the way I was raised.”
In another interview with Elle magazine as stated in a report in Culturs magazine, Moore shared how reading too played a significant role in acting while she was growing up. She said,
“When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.”
Her initial plans were to become a doctor but her avid reading led her to the theatre.
In her interview with WebMD, the actress learned about the economic struggles of education in schools.
“We lived in Nebraska for a while, and I saw what schools were like in areas that were just strapped. Then I went to school in Alaska, where the public elementary school served an array of economic needs.”
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This understanding influenced her decision to work with Save the Children on programs aimed at alleviating poverty among children in the U.S., focusing on literacy. Her book, Freckleface Strawberry, was reportedly published on October 16, 2007.
According to a report in Rolling Stones, the book became a New York Times bestseller when it was first released. The book is currently available at Barnes & Noble for $18.99 and at Amazon for $23.87.
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