Julianne Moore Did Extensive Prep For Emotional Alzheimer’s Drama ‘Still Alice’
“Still Alice”, in which Moore’s Columbia University star linguistics professor Alice Howland suffers through early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, has no shortage of sadness. With no personal connections to anyone who’d experienced dementia, Moore, 54, poured extensive research into the job. “People were so incredibly generous with their time and their knowledge,” she reports. “I started with the head of the National Alzheimer’s Association, and they set me up with three different women all across the country who had been diagnosed with early-onset, then I met with the head of the research department at Mount Sinai in New York.
- Dr. Mary Sano, PhD, Professor, Psychiatry, Associate Dean for Clinical Research, Director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai