Julianne Moore on Working With Sydney Sweeney, Loving Birds, and Debuting Louise Trotter's Bottega Veneta

Vogue

2 days ago

CM: We've had a lot of discussion in our office about the clothes on Sirens. One of our writers spoke to the costume designer about nailing the sort of exaggerated, almost camp preppy aesthetic. But I feel like Michaela's clothes were the only wardrobe one really coveted from the show.
JM: [Costume designer] Caroline Duncan and I worked on that pretty closely. It's like [Michaela] has a higher fashion pitch than everybody else. She's the queen bee, so she wants to differentiate herself and signal her power. So we talked about keeping her in ivories a lot, cream colors. And stuff that's not particularly practical.
CM: Did you keep anything?
JM: I did. The outfit that I kept was the one that I wore at the very end of the show, when she's on the ferry, because I was like, That, I'll wear. That was a suede Khaite jacket. I loved it. And a pair of The Row jeans that I loved, and this great sweater.
CM: Do you often, or ever, bring any of your own clothes onto set?
JM: I try to avoid it. Sometimes I bring shoes 'cause I'm really particular about how my shoes fit and whether or not I can walk in them. But, you know, costumes get dirty, you get makeup on them, you're kind of in dirty places. And so if you have something really nice, you don't wanna bring it to work. [Laughs.]
CM: I wanna know if Michaela's life at Cliff House has any correlation to Julianne's life in Montauk.
JM: Oh, no, no. As a matter of fact, I went to the beverage store in Montauk last weekend to get my case of lemon LaCroix and my mini Diet Pepsis and stuff, and the woman that I know from the beverage store was saying, 'I really love that show, but wow, she's not like you at all.' I was like, I don't think Kiki buys her own mini Diet Pepsis.
TA: You started by saying that you notice that everyone's watching this show. You've been in a lot of big, blockbuster-y movies that have big premieres and box office numbers, and now we're in a new era where something like Sirens starts to dominate the conversation. What are your thoughts on that?