| “I have to find the place where the character cries,” the actress Julianne Moore told the New Yorker writer John Lahr, in 2015. “I have to find the place where she’s hurt.” This week, Moore’s latest movie, “May December,” arrived on Netflix, the latest showcase of her ability to penetrate a subject’s deepest core. Moore plays a teacher who engaged in an illegal relationship with a student; the film, co-starring Natalie Portman, reunites Moore with Todd Haynes, who directed “two of her greatest performances,” Lahr wrote, in “Safe” and “Far from Heaven.” To study Moore’s ability to disappear into a role, Lahr observed the actress at her home, in the West Village, and at work, including on the set of “Maggie’s Plan,” in which she portrayed an anthropology professor mired in a messy divorce. The most interesting characters, Moore says, often represent extremes in human behavior, a striking contrast to her own normality offscreen. The director David Cronenberg attributes Moore’s potency in part to her supreme self-awareness in relation to the lens, while the actress cites her aversion to rehearsal—which isn’t to say a lack of preparation. “She is protecting something extremely vital and untamed,” Haynes tells Lahr, “that she can unleash on camera.” | 
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