Julianne Moore fully immersed herself in character while preparing for her upcoming role.

The 51-year-old Oscar-nominated actress portrays American politician and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in HBO’s political drama Going Rogue.

The film based on the eponymous book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin follows the 2008 US presidential election in which Senator John McCain invited Sarah to be his running mate against Barack Obama.

Julianne went all out to authentically depict the politician.

“I listened to her book on tape, Going Rogue, I went on YouTube and found all of her media appearances, all the speeches, debates, the convention speeches, and put them all on my iPod,” Julianna explained to host Jay Leno on his American late-night TV talk programme The Tonight Show Thursday. “I wiped everything off except for [Vanilla Ice's 1990s track] Ice Ice Baby, which is the song that my daughter ice-skated to.”

Julianne’s two children were mortified by the sounds emanating from their mother’s iPod.

“My 14-year-old son was really embarrassed by that,” Julianne laughed. “There is nothing worse than a mum who has nothing but Sarah Palin and Ice Ice Baby on her iPod. I’d put it on in the car, I’d listen to it when I was running. I’d listen to it constantly. It was really a total immersion.”

Julianne altered her physical appearance drastically for this film.

“Everything had to change – my skin tone, the shape of my face, my lips, my eyes, I wore contact lenses,” Julianne shared. “Everything was completely changed.”

Sarah Palin’s current and former aides have lashed out against the movie, complaining that Julianne’s portrayal is nothing more than caricature.

Julianne refutes this assumption, as the actress feels the film comments on broader American issues.

“It’s about the campaign. It’s also about how we elect our leader,” Julianne said. “It’s more of a portrait of this particular time in history, of this particular campaign, than it is about Sarah Palin.”

Going Rogue starring Julianne, Woody Harrelson and Ed Harris premieres on HBO in America on March 10.

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London: Julianne Moore has revealed that she was left stunned after discovering that the former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, whom she is portraying in her next film, was completely controlled by her advisors.

The Oscar winner portrays the one-time Vice Presidential candidate in the upcoming film ‘Game Change’, based on John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s book, which chronicles John McCain’s failed bid for the White House in 2008. The 51-year-old actress spent weeks perfecting her portrayal of the controversial politician. She also admitted that she was shocked to discover that Palin was told what to say and how to look throughout her campaign.

“In my portrayal, I tried to be as balanced and as fair as possible using the tools that we had. Obviously I am never going to be her. But I need to portray her as precisely as possible,” a leading daily has quoted her as saying.

“She was only allowed to talk with certain media outlets. Everything she said was prescribed. She didn’t understand why they had brought her in as a vice presidential candidate for her abilities and then not let her use them. I was not aware that campaigns were conducted that way. And I certainly wasn’t aware that people are educated, dressed, made up. That is much more like what we do in showbusiness,” she added.

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LOS ANGELES, Jan 14 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – Americans may be gearing up for the 2012 presidential elections, but HBO is revisiting the drama of the 2008 race to the White House in a TV film about Sarah Palin and John McCain.

“Game Change,” starring Julianne Moore as Palin and Ed Harris as McCain, is based on the 2010 book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin that documented the behind-the-scenes action of the presidential campaign four years ago.

But the new film, which will premier on March 10, focuses on the rise of Palin as McCain’s 2008 Republican Party running mate.

“We felt that story of Sarah Palin is truly one of the great American political stories of our time,” writer Danny Strong told television reporters on Friday.

Moore said that she spent hours working with a vocal coach to master Palin’s “idiosyncratic way of speaking” as well as reading Palin’s book and watching her TV reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”

“It’s a daunting task to play somebody who’s not only a living figure but also hugely well known. So for me, the most important thing was accuracy. We’re all very familiar with her and those iconic moments four years ago,” said Moore, who starred in movie drama “The Hours” and “The Kids Are Alright”.

Strong said he was given interviews with everyone he wrote into the film. Except for Palin. Instead, he used the former Alaska governor’s own book “Going Rogue” as one of his main sources.

“Her (Palin’s) situation was an extraordinary one. She was someone who was involved in state politics and suddenly thrust into international politics, and clearly wasn’t prepared,” said Moore.

“She was so incredibly charismatic and so unbelievably able to communicate, a true populist,” she said.

“Saturday Night Live” actress Tina Fey, whose Palin impersonations became one of the highlights of the 2008 presidential campaign, will also appear in “Game Change”, which incorporates news footage into the film .

“I really looked forward to the moment where Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, would be watching Tina Fey as Sarah Palin. I thought that would be interesting to the story,” said director Jay Roach.

Harris, who researched McCain in-depth before portraying him, said his respect for the Arizona Senator deepened.

“He’s a man of commended sense of honor and duty, and when he decided to go into politics, by his own admission, his ambition and his ego were constantly in conflict with his sense of honor and duty and patriotism,” the “Beautiful Mind” actor said.

Palin, 47, a favorite of the Tea Party movement, ended months of speculation last October by announcing she would not seek a presidential run in 2012.

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I’ve added 22 MQ photos of the panel Julianne attended yesterday. Hopefully we’ll find some in HQ soon!

Below you can view the teaser trailer for Game Change, are you looking forward to seeing Julianna play Sarah Palin?

Actress Julianne Moore does her due diligence in researching the characters she portrays on screen – and when it came to playing Sarah Palin, there was no exception.

At an event last week, the 51-year-old actress told the New York Daily News she “read every single thing” she could about the former Alaska governor and “watched every interview” in order to prepare for her role as Palin in next year’s HBO mini-series, “Game Change.”

All that information must have been eye-opening for Moore, right? Not so much.

When asked if she had developed a newfound respect for Palin after all her research, the actress raised an eyebrow and sighed deeply. “No,” she told the paper quietly.

In an interview with ABC News, Moore was asked about her thoughts with regard to the current political climate, now that she’s portraying Palin on screen.

She told religious correspondent Father Edward Beck that she’s most disappointed with how partisan it’s become.

“I think the entire idea of being a country of united states, the way we formed ourselves, is to be greater than the sum of our parts. And to work together to create a whole, that benefits the majority of the people,” she explained. “And right now, I feel everyone is so divisive, and so self-interested and so much about being re-elected, and special interests that I’m really disgusted. I really feel kind of ashamed.”

Moore went on to comment on the research she did on the way campaigns are conducted. “So much is about how do you get on the air, how do you get the most media attention, how do you make the most noise. When, in fact, what we’re all looking for is leadership,” she said. “We don’t want noise. We want people who are going to take care of us.”

For her part, Palin didn’t seem too thrilled about having Moore portray her. “I think I’ll just grit my teeth and bear whatever comes what may with that movie,” she told Fox News last March.

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The Julianne Moore fans out there know that the very talented, award-winning actress can do almost anything she wants. Her dramatic work is aces, to be sure, but that guest stint on “30 Rock” was amazing. Anyway, speaking of characters with pronounced accents, Moore recently wrapped filming “Game Change,” the HBO movie based on John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s best-selling book of the same name, in which Moore plays famous former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

When MTV News caught up with the actress recently, during the press day for “Crazy Stupid Love,” we asked her about the challenges associated with portraying such a famous personality.

Julianne was almost unrecognisable when she was spotted on the set of Game Changes, an HBO TV movie in which she portrays former U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Production assistants desperately attempted to shield the actress from prying eyes in order to protect the integrity of the film as she headed back to her trailer.

Last week a promotional picture was released by HBO, who are making the film, of Julianne dressed in the famous red suit jacked worn by Sarah on the 2008 presidential campaign trail.

The upcoming HBO film is based on the political tell-all book of the same name, which gives a behind-the-scenes look at the US 2008 general election.

Game Change productions started Wednesday, and People has posted the very first look of Julianne as former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Costarring Ed Harris as John McCain, the film follows the Arizona U.S. Senator’s 2008 presidential campaign from his selection of Palin as a running mate to their defeat in the general election. Woody Harrelson portrays Steve Schmidt, McCain’s senior advisor.

The film, directed by Jay Roach and written by Danny Strong, is based on the bestselling book of the same name. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are executive producers.