Julianne Moore wants to save your children from the next natural or manmade disaster. No, she has not been tapped as a superhero for her next role, but has joined on as the U.S. Artist Ambassador for Save the Children.
Moore came to Washington to speak about the organization’s latest report that exposes the fact that “only seven states are prepared to protect children” were a disaster to occur, and as a mother of two children, she was able to discuss firsthand her experience as a New York parent during the Sept. 11 attacks.
Speaking with Mark Shriver at the Mazique Parent Child Center on 13th Street Wednesday morning, Moore suggested that kids wear laminated emergency cards around their necks.
“Think about it before it happens,” she pleaded.
After wrapping up her remarks, the motherly Moore went over to the group of children that sat quietly throughout the event, gave them high-fives and told them they were the “best group of 4-year-olds [she had ever] met.”
In the evening, Moore was the star attraction at a cocktail party at Art and Soul hosted by Shriver and Hilary Rosen. The hook: a signing for Moore’s new kids’ book, “Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully.”
So, we had to ask, is the story autobiographical?
“Of course it is,” she replied. “Isn’t all fiction?”
And what did she think about her day in D.C.? A friend of hers asked if she got to meet all the famous senators, she said, before adding, “The only famous ones are the ones on TV. We don’t know the rest of them.”
Photo: Carrie Devorah
