Demi Moore has revealed her true feelings about the close-up of her bare buttocks in her new horror film The Substance.
The 62-year-old rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s and was widely recognized for her brave attitude while being naked on screen.
This year she broke boundaries by appearing in a full-frontal nude scene at the age of 61 in The Substance, which became a sensation at the Cannes Film Festival.
Now, however, she has spoken candidly about the misgivings she harbors whenever she sees the low shot of her bare bottom in the image.
“It’s like, ugh, it bothers me so much,” Demi said in a new cover interview with she – and at the same time revealed why he didn’t insist that the scene be changed.
“I didn’t ask for any adjustments because I knew I was in service to something that was more important than me,” he said.
Demi Moore has revealed her true feelings about the close-up of her bare buttocks in her new horror film The Substance (pictured)
“It’s like, ugh, it bothers me so much,” Demi said in a new cover interview with Elle, while also revealing why she didn’t insist the scene be changed.
“I felt like any hardship, any exposure of my own insecurities, would be worth it if I were part of the conversation,” she said of The Substance, which offers a gripping insight into the social expectations surrounding older women.
Demi radiated movie star magnetism on her latest cover in a sparkling strapless floor-length dress that hugged her enviable svelte figure.
Inside the magazine, she modeled a wine-colored suit that allowed her to show off her statuesque legs to the fullest.
Demi has been known for flashing flesh since her ‘Brat Pack’ days, when her sex scenes with Rob Lowe in the 1986 film About Last Night… sent audiences into a frenzy.
She has stripped naked in films ranging from the 1993 erotic drama Indecent Proposal to the 1995 historical romance The Scarlet Letter and the 1996 comedy Striptease.
In 1991, she broke ground and sparked controversy by posing nude on the cover of Vanity Fair while seven months pregnant with her then-husband Bruce Willis.
Demi became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood when she received $12.5 million for leading the cast of Striptease.
Although the film was derided by critics, it managed to turn a respectable profit, thanks to the appeal of Demi’s topless scenes.
“I didn’t ask for any adjustments because I knew I was in service to something that was more important than me,” he said.
Inside the magazine, she modeled a wine-colored bodysuit that allowed her to show off her statuesque legs to the fullest.
“I felt like any difficulty, any exposure of my own insecurities, would be worth it if I was part of the conversation,” he said of The Substance.
However, the film was a critical bomb that affected Demi’s career, fueling criticism that she was flaunting her body excessively.
Demi, who has now confessed that “dancing” in Striptease “was tremendously uncomfortable for me,” reacted to the disgrace by changing the subject.
He developed a muscular, military figure and shaved his head completely for the 1997 action film GI Jane, which inspired the prank that led Will Smith to slap Chris Rock at the Oscars two years ago.
“I changed my body several times through different roles, and I think I chose those roles, whether consciously or not, for the opportunity to find some peace and self-love,” she has now said. “And when I found that out, it was just really surrendering and letting go of what the outside was going to be like.”
However, she has confessed that she underwent many body-related “torments” early in her career, including an eating disorder.
‘The perfect example is when I was told to lose weight several times. The producer took me aside. “It was very embarrassing and humiliating,” he said.
“But that’s just one thing,” the St. Elmo’s Fire actress added, noting: “How I internalized it and how it led me to a place of so much torture and harshness against myself, of really extreme behaviors, and that I put almost all the value of who I was in my body in a certain way, that’s up to me.’
Demi leads the cast of The Substance as Elizabeth Sparkle, a movie star whose career is in decline due to her advanced age.
Sue, played by Margaret Qualley, emerges as the new, youthful version of Elizabeth, who has to move her mind back and forth between young and old bodies on a weekly basis.
Demi leads the cast of The Substance as Elizabeth Sparkle, a movie star whose career is in decline due to her advanced age.
Elizabeth discovers a fluid called The Substance, which she can inject to create a younger version of herself that can act in her place.
Sue, played by Margaret Qualley, emerges as the new, youthful version of Elizabeth, who has to move her mind back and forth between young and old bodies on a weekly basis.
However, the process of keeping Sue’s body functioning causes Elizabeth’s original body to age dramatically and extremely quickly.
“There was an incredibly freeing aspect of going into this really emotionally and physically vulnerable and exposed place,” Demi said.
“The movie gave me a chance to see where my ego was running the show, where I was giving up my power, and it pushed me to find a little more gentleness and acceptance of myself just as I am.”