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"    Photo: Courtesy of Cinedigm   Julianne Moore dusts off her comedy chops in her latest film, The English Teacher, in which she plays a character who is a late bloomer, a spinster, and a book worm (we doubt any casting director saw that combination coming). &amp;quot;My favorite scene is when [my character] Linda gets money from the ATM and pepper sprays [Michael Angarano&amp;#039;s character]. I could not stop laughing. It&amp;#039;s my absolute favorite thing,&amp;quot; Moore told us. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s really silly stuff\u2014with the pepper spray, hitting him over the head with the fake tombstone\u2014and it was really fun to do, [but] it&amp;#039;s all rooted in real fear and real despair.&amp;quot; When Linda shepherds a play production for her favorite student, her world is rocked by their unexpected romance. Moore&amp;#039;s Linda dares a path that would make Jane Austen, the Bront\u00EBs, and Bridget Jones proud.   With The English Teacher hitting theaters today, we sat down with Moore\u2014known as &amp;quot;Julie&amp;quot; to her co-star Angarano\u2014to talk spinsterhood, saying &amp;quot;yes,&amp;quot; and what profession she might have sought out in another life. It&amp;#039;s difficult to envision you as a homely spinster. Were the costume designer and makeup artist overwhelmed by that task? I wanted [my character] Linda to be someone who wasn&amp;#039;t particularly interested in how she looked. She wasn&amp;#039;t really concerned with her physicality at all. So, I didn&amp;#039;t wear makeup, we pulled my hair back, and I wore those glasses. Those glasses are amazing! Where did you find them? I chose them myself at Fabulous Fanny&amp;#039;s in NYC. They sell vintage frames. I felt like [Linda] cycled through many, many pairs and had just stopped changing her frames at one point. They were kind of late &amp;#039;80s, which is where I sort of had her stop.  How many screenplays do you read in a year\u2014over 100? Yes. You read a lot, very quickly. It&amp;#039;s interesting, because when I started out, everything was a hard copy. You used to have to go pick up your scripts, which was crazy. But now everything is digital, so I think you read more now, because people can send it to you in a flash and can have a look through it very quickly. Yeah, you read a lot to find the stuff you want to do. And that&amp;#039;s not counting your friends&amp;#039; scripts and other odds and ends that people want you to look at. And how many get &amp;quot;yeses?&amp;quot; I give answers very quickly. I remember with [A Single Man], Tom Ford ran into me at a party. He and I had been friends. He said, &amp;quot;Oh, my god. I have something I want to send you. I want to send you my script.&amp;quot; And I thought, &amp;quot;Oh, no. Here&amp;#039;s my friend with a script. What am I going to do?&amp;quot; He sent it to me, and I read, and thought, &amp;quot;Jesus. This is great.&amp;quot; I emailed him immediately and said, &amp;quot;Okay. I&amp;#039;ll do it.&amp;quot; I had to say that three times before he understood, because I think he thought it was going to be a longer process. But I loved the script immediately. And when that happens, I&amp;#039;m kind of just in. What made you say &amp;quot;yes&amp;quot; to &amp;#039;The English Teacher?&amp;#039; I found [Linda] to be incredibly easy to relate to. She&amp;#039;s not very different from me. I loved reading as a kid. I was pretty academic. So, I feel like in another life, I could have been Linda. I love her purity within the idea of story of what literature is, and about there being a beginning, middle, and an end. Her ideology is lovely and adorable, but it&amp;#039;s great when she opens up about how messy and unpredictable life can be.  There&amp;#039;s a line in the film\u2014&amp;quot;all great art comes from pain&amp;quot;\u2014 is that true? I don&amp;#039;t think it&amp;#039;s true at all. I think it&amp;#039;s a fallacy. Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. It doesn&amp;#039;t mean that those things are unhappy or that you have to come from an unhappy place to create them. And I actually think the more together and sane you are, the more you are able to imagine effectively. That&amp;#039;s been the case for me anyway. Your skin is flawless\u2014what SPF do you use? It depends. If I&amp;#039;m at the beach, I use a 50 on my body. On my face, I usually use a 15, and then reapply it, because otherwise it&amp;#039;s too stingy. Is there a specific brand? L&amp;#039;Or\u00E9al.  Photo: Courtesy of Cinedigm "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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