Julia Ormond : “I Made The Choice”

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    OUT18902048She has a classic beauty and her star shimmered in the mid nineties, she also hailed as the new Meg Ryan and Julia Robert.  She is Julia Ormond with simplicity and face without make-up, she still has the glorious in her way of beauty.

    The 46-years-old actress seemed to disappear after her three big movies, Sabrina with Harrison Ford, First Knight with Richard Gere and Sean Connery and Legends Of The Fall with Brad Pitt, such was not suitable for her to be superstar.

    “People always ask me what is it like to kiss Brad Pitt. I wonder if they would ask him what is it like to kiss Julia Ormond,” she laughs

    Born in Epsom, Surrey, Ormond wanted to be a theater actress, not  a celebrity. She was try to reinvent herself, making a documentary about Bosnian women in Serbian detentions camps, involved in anti-slavery activism and devoting herself as single mother to her daughter, Sophie, 7-years-old.

    She has found something that suit for her which is taking supporting roles in independent movies. Being a center of attention seems not easy for her.

    On her new film, she plays as Vivien Leigh in My Week With Marilyn. The movie is based on Colin Clark‘s memoir The Prince, The Showgirl and Me.

    “I was glad to be asked to play Vivien Leigh. It’s a supporting role and it’s about her husband, Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh), and Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams).”

    Married for the first with Rory Edwards. then ended in 1994, just before her career rise. Then she met her second husband, an entrepreneur and political activist, Jon Rubin, married in 1999 and moved to Los Angeles to starting a family.

    Sophie was born when she was 39-years-old. She would have liked more children but at age 46, she says this is not likely. And she and Rubin split up after nine years of marriage.

    “Having a child makes a certain level of prioritizing crystal clear,” she says. “I’m enjoying doing supporting roles. They are more interesting. So much of the business is based on hitting a commercial note that’s around youth. When you are at the age when you feel you can deliver something more easily because you’re more experienced, there is less of it.”

    Rather than feel resentful, she is finding freedom. “I made the choice to have a family and do other stuff and confront it head on,” she says.
    She is not looking for a significant other. “But I’m open. I’ve had great relationships and I don’t want to settle for something that is less.” Julia lives in Los Angeles, but as she gets older she’s increasingly drawn to Britain.

    “I got to go home to work on Marilyn and another film, Albatross,” she says. “I thirst for it more and more. My dad lives in the Isle of Man so it was nice to be there filming Albatross. He is a software designer. Mum used to be a lab technician.”

    However, there is no permanent return planned. “Not while the little one is still at school. People come out to see us in LA and I like it there.” In Hollywood, actors are expected to look perfect all the time, but Ormond has never been able to play that game.

    “I’m not good at the red carpet,” she says. “I am the kid who battled like crazy not to be put in a dress to go to church. I rarely wear dresses. But I know I have to deliver as part of the business side of what I do.”

    There’s very much a sense that doing an interview is an analogy for putting on a dress. She doesn’t want to talk in quirky soundbites or give throwaway lines about who is the best kisser. She wants to talk with honesty and analysis. She cannot sell herself. Yet she seems more content playing Vivien Leigh than being the new Vivien.
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    My Week With Marilyn is out in cinemas on November 25.