Worrying is part and parcel of being a parent and it seems that it’s no different when you’re a Hollywood A-Lister. Speaking to The Mail on Sunday, actress Julianne Moore confesses that she monitors her children very closely - particularly when they’re online.
Moore has two children with husband Bart Freundlich – son Caleb, aged 16, and daughter Liv who is 12.
“It’s a scary world out there. I’m all over it with my kids,” she says. “My son has a Facebook page which he uses but he also knows that his father and I – what they call, lurk – on it so that if we see something untoward we can talk to him about it. In my opinion you don’t get to have privacy when you’re only 16!”
She adds: “My daughter has an Instagram account on my phone, which is quite boring at the moment because I keep having to look at her pictures, which are all of kittens and cupcakes, but it’s what you do.”
She’s cautious in the real world too, but she realises when it’s time to back off and let them do things on their own. “When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and then we had to stop following him and let him do it by himself.”
Moore has recently finished filming her latest film Non-Stop with Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery – and being a huge fan of the show, she wanted all the gossip! “I wouldn’t leave Michelle alone when we were making this movie. Every single day, I’d try to get out of her what was happening on Downton,” she tells The Mail on Sunday. “I’d say to her, ‘Come here, come on and sit down by me.’ And as soon as she was sitting down I’d start, ‘What’s she like, O’Brien? Is she mean in real life or is she nice? What’s going to happen to this character?’”
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Posted by Laurie Clifford.