A-List Actress Mocked For Saying She’s Over ‘Explosions And Guns’ In Movies

Actress Julianne Moore says she’s about done doing movies that have any major action elements or conflict, because the world is just too scary.

The 65-year-old “Hannibal” star made the revelation during a Kering Women in Motion Talk at Cannes on Saturday, as Variety reported.

“I’m less and less interested in tragedy, I would say,” she said while accepting Kering’s Women in Motion Award. “Particularly now at a time when things are rough globally, it’s hard for me to invest in a story that I think is pretend, where I feel like the depth of the emotion doesn’t measure up to what’s happening in the world.”

“I don’t like someone being murdered,” Moore added. “I don’t like explosions and guns. I don’t like histrionics. I don’t like things that raise the stakes without real feeling underneath. I mean, that actually bothers me because that’s like noise. I don’t know how to play it. I don’t want to watch it.”

Fans were quick to mock Moore not just for her stance, but for making her career on these exact types of films she now claims to despise. 

“I’ve lost count how many movies she’s done with guns,” one commenter wrote. 

“Funny how artists forget their own catalog until it’s time to virtue signal,” another agreed. 

A third person wrote, “That’s great! Now playback all the degenerate, violent entertainment Julianne has happily participated in throughout her career.”

At the same time, Moore said she is disappointed by a reported lack of representation of women in films and behind the scenes in the movie-making business and beyond, saying it’s “not endemic just to the film industry, it’s global.”

“I mean, there’s not representation in C-suites, there’s not representation in media, there’s not representation in higher education. There are lots of places where we don’t have the representation we deserve. So I feel like it’s a bigger problem,” Moore said of lead roles for females reportedly dropping by to 37% in the top-grossing movies of 2025, down 10% from 2024. 

She advocated for more women telling female-centric stories in Hollywood. 

“It’s like, we are the ones who have each other’s backs, we are the ones who hire each other, we are the ones that write stories about ourselves,” Moore said at Cannes. “And that actually goes back to point of view, too. Like, who is telling that story? Whose point of view is it? Is it a female point of view?”