When Julianne Moore took on her role in Still Alice , as a woman afflicted by early-onset Alzheimer’s, the one for which she’s already earned a Golden Globe and is expected to receive a best actress Oscar nomination , she didn’t want to portray anything she hadn’t seen. But she made sure she saw a lot. Moore told a group of reporters at Tuesday night’s New York screening of the film that she did roughly four months’ worth of research, in which she “basically talked to everybody I could.”