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Watch: Julianne Moore acts for spare change in Times Square

By Nick Bond

We’re longtime fans of Billy Eichner and his hilarious pop culture quiz show Billy On The Street here at Attitude – and his latest segment may be his best yet.

Eichner enlists Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore to quite literally act for tips in a madcap race around New York’s Times Square, approaching strangers and offering to recite some of her award-winning monologues for spare change.

“SIR, SIR, GIVE US A QUARTER – SHE’LL DO SOMETHING UNDERSTATED,” Eichner bellows as Moore – an incredibly good sport – delivers emotional readings of lines from The Kids Are All Right, Magnolia and The Big Lebowski:

“Do you want me to cry on cue?” Moore asks one confused tourist, who clearly has no idea who she is. Before he even responds, she’s staring intently into the middle-distance, eyes watery:

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GIVE JULIANNE MOORE ALL THE ACADEMY AWARDS.

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