Sarah Palin Is Lucky To Have Julianne Moore Portray Her In New HBO Film

By Emily Hall Posted Mar 11th 2011 05:58PM

It could have been worse. Obvious choice, Tina Fey? Or, hey, lefty activist Susan Sarandon?

Instead, beautiful actress Julianne Moore has been selected to play one-time Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in the upcoming HBO film 'Game Change.' This is the screen adaptation of the best-selling 2008 tell-all tome written by accomplished political reporters Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.

"Julianne Moore is a fine actress and was a good choice for this role," a Hollywood film executive tells PopEater. "She delves into her diverse roles and does her homework. She even wore glasses in grade school!"

A classy liberal who voted for President Obama and isn't afraid to speak her mind, Moore, 50, is a true professional and takes her film roles very seriously.

Palin, the bespectacled former governor of Alaska who became John McCain's vice presidential running mate during the last election, isn't so sure how the film will turn out because the book portrayed her as an empty-headed disaster and revealed damaging secrets from the campaign trail.

When FOX News' Sean Hannity asked Palin how she felt about the film, she said, "I think I'll just grit my teeth and bear whatever comes what may with that movie."

No matter how Moore feels personally about Palin, she should be able to play the feisty politician with aplomb.

In fact, the actress has had some experience with Palin's pro-gun and geography issues. In 1992, Moore had a supporting role in the comedy 'The Gun in Betty's Lou's Handbag.' Then, seven years later, she played a grieving mother in 'A Map of the World,' where she had plenty of time to see Russia from her house.

And Moore has even lived in Alaska -- Juneau, to be exact -- where she attended school from 1971-72.

Unlike Palin, the Boston University graduate is a pro-choice advocate, but Moore does share the politician's love for having children, revealing having her own has been the "most wonderful experience" of her life.

As for physically becoming an on-screen Sarah Palin for the duration of 'Game Change's' filming, Moore admits that when acting she becomes a different person, but it gets heady when she is limited by her physiognomy.

"You desperately try to look different, but it doesn't always work," she has said. "There are some things that you can change, but unfortunately you're always left with the same face."

Tags: julianne moore, Sarah Palin

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Friday 11 March

By KS.

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lmao..funny one there Joe. Palin as President. So funny...what a hoot...lol!!!

By Rick

Great idea.

The greatest movie never made.

By TONY

PRESIDENT OF WHAT COUNTRY,,,LIBYA

By amused

You'll have to make that Post Presidential movie in your dreams. She's got about as much chance at being elected president as Pee Wee Herman.

Tuesday 15 March

By HOHODADDY

How do you make a move about someone that doesn't have a brain?

By joe

I know she will never be president,thats my point. If they wait until after she is president to make a movie about her,there will never be a movie either.

By dnkrpd

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They made "W", about George W. Bush.

By Kat

All the more Sarah gets condemned all the more I love her and all the more I pray for her. I talked to her and no one knows unless they see her up close how beautiful she is. The tellee does her no justice.

It is very telling that the only positive thing that you can say about her is that she is physically attractive. It is telling about what she has to offer as a politician. And it is telling about you that this is the reason you support her.

By nks55s

FOR THE SCARED PALIN HATERS THAT DO NOT EVEN KNOW HER so how can you hate someone like you do ? YOU MUST BE RELATED TO PELOSI AND HARRY REID THEY DO NOT READ ANYTHING EITHER BUCH OF PARROTS. NPR AND STALIN WOULD BE PROUD OF YOU ALL.

I do not hate anyone. But yes, it is very scary to even imagine Palin as president. Pray IT never happens...

You cant read either OR UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU READ. WHICH IS IT, bd, bd, bd thats all folks.

By cleanfreaks2

Do you even know what NPR is?

By Linda jones

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Why are SO MANY " INTIMIDATED" about Sara Palin?? Please give credit where credits due?? She was a Wonderful Governor. She has
NOT taken the Stimulus money for her State.She's a wonderful
wife, mother & grand mother, SportsLADY, & family-orientated individual. She has a LOVING FAMILY!!!She speaks up for what she
truly believes in! ( and she made the Democrats nervous when she
ran for Vice-President)pLUS she is nice looking. TELL ME :"what have YOU DONE FOR YOUR COUNTRY, LATELY?

By Roberta

Well, Sarah quit her job as Governor...that's what she did for her state. Now what she could do for her country is just GO AWAY!

It's a toss up between her and Paris Hilton for who is the most famous for doing nothing. She served 1/2 a term as governor of a state filled with drunks and cast offs. oh, I forgot, she was a weather girl and oh yeah, beauty queen from a town who's hot spot is the local dump.

By Mike

That's a much more impressive resume than Barack Obama's and HE got himself elected President!

By J.

Yeah Mike I agree - Columbia University, Harvard Law and the title of Senator on your resume looks bad. LOL - Mike you are as dumb as Palin. hahahahaha

By jo

Obummer is a toss up between himself and Paris Hilton, Paris Hilton just destroys herself, Obummer is trying to destroy the country!

By David

Do we really NEED to see a movie about Sarah Palin?? I mean really. Palin is just not interesting at all. She picks her little cat fights and spews hate. Has no depth to her conversations, she uses those little refrigarator magnet sayings over and over, that gets old. "only dead fish, go with the flow" big whoop. GO BACK TO WASILLA...

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