Q: We have seen you in so many serious roles lately; I have to know, what took you so long to do a comedy? You were very funny.
A: I've done comedies before but I haven't done physical comedy. Cookie's Fortune and The Big Lebowski were more behavioural and Nine Months was pretty funny, I thought at least, but looking back at it I was always depressed in that. So this is the first time to do stuff where I fall down.

Q: What was your reaction to seeing yourself doing this kind of physical comedy?
A: I love falling down in general. I think it's always funny when people trip and fall as long as no one gets hurts — just one of my most favourite things. It was just a neat thing to be able to do and it was different seeing myself doing this kind of stuff.

Q: Was it a conscious move to make a film like this? Let's face it, lately we've seen you in some pretty dark roles. It must have been freeing to do this movie.
A: Yes, I definitely went for it when I was first presented with the script. When Ivan Reitman and I first met, he said what do you think about this character and I said I don't think she's funny and he said you're right. She's not, and so that's why I said can we have these prat falls, and it gave me something interesting to do.

Q: What was it like for you being the lone female amongst a set filled with guys?
A: They were pretty sensitive guys. They may act and behave otherwise and try to be Mr. Macho but you have to remember they are actors.

Q: Oh, okay.
A: (laughing) Come on, actors are kind of sensitive! I loved these guys so much they were fun and great to be with. Usually in a film the ratio of men to women is always kind of like that anyway. It's usually you and maybe one other girl. In this case, it was just Seann William Scott and I!

Q: Poor Seann, everybody seems to be picking on him.
A: Lovingly, of course.

Q: How did you keep a straight face or not crack up on a set like this?
A: Oh, you do crack up. Crack up when you get yelled at. Ivan was constantly yelling, stop it, and I'd keep apologizing.

Q: What makes Ivan Reitman such a good comedy director?
A: He has a real ear for it. He was a musician before he started to direct and he really can hear the melody and rhythm of comedy and knows exactly where the joke happens and where it breaks up. He is very sophisticated.

Q: You have been so busy, but you had a chance recently to shoot The Shipping News in Newfoundland.
A: Canada is so beautiful. We shot first in Halifax and then we went to Trinity, Newfoundland.

Q:. How did you like it?
A: It was exquisite. It is very remote but so beautiful. I might add, we didn't even get Toronto TV over there! We got Boston TV, which really threw us off. We'd be watching traffic and weather reports and we'd only get Boston news. Here we were in Trinity thinking, what's going on?

Q: You seem to be so busy. I was wondering how you balance being a mom? Do you take Caleb with you on shoots?
A: He comes along or I try to go home too. We go back and forth so we don't spend too much time apart. I am ready to take a break right now. It will be nice to hang out and spend some real quality time together.

**Note: Julianne Moore is expecting her second child with director/partner Bart Freudlich in the New Year.