Demi Moore recalled feeling like an outsider as she struggled to land a role in movies after making history as the first woman to be paid a whopping $12.5 million for a movie.
While appearing on a new episode of The Hollywood Reporter Chat Podcast AwardsThe star, 62, said she began to wonder if her career was “over” as her acting opportunities began to dwindle.
The stagnation of his career coincided with a series of unsuccessful films beginning with The Scarlet Letter (1995), then the coming-of-age drama Now and Then and the thriller The Juror (1996).
This led her to discover that she “seemed too good to play an older woman and wasn’t young enough to play the others.”
“I didn’t really know where I fit in or where I belonged,” she explained, leading her to ask herself, “Have I done what I was supposed to do in this?”
He ultimately scaled back film production, aside from a handful of supporting roles, such as his cameo in Charlie’s Angels: Full Speed (2003) and, most recently, starring in The Substance, for which he garnered critical acclaim. and the Oscar. buzz.
Demi Moore recalled feeling like an outsider as she struggled to land a role in movies after making history as the first woman to be paid a whopping $12.5 million for a movie; seen in november
Immediately after reading the script for her latest project, the mother of three recalled feeling “pretty impressed.”
“I was really captivated by the way this topic of aging was explored… it seemed so relatable, on a human level,” she said. “The other part was new territory for me: a body horror movie. But as an actor, there were a lot of interesting challenges, not just the physical aspect, with the prosthetics, but also the emotional rawness that had to be conveyed with very little dialogue.”
Despite empathizing with her character, Elisabeth Sparkle, in The Substance, which explores the challenges of aging before the public, Moore pointed out their differences.
“Elizabeth Sparkle and I are very different,” he told listeners. ‘If you look, she has no friends, she has no family, she has no balance in her life. All its reflection of value is only in the external. What I did relate to is not what they were doing to her, but what she did to herself.
Moore continued: ‘Because, again, I’ve experienced it in so many different ways. It’s not that I haven’t experienced it yet. The difference today is that I have different tools. I have a different way of grasping it and changing it and knowing what is real and what is not real, and that the value of who I really am is not just my external self.’
While attending the 2024 Gotham Awards on Monday night, Moore spoke to People about how her relationship with aging has changed as she’s gotten older.
“I can look back at 20, but at 30 I found things that weren’t good enough,” he recalled. “My relationship with (aging) now is much more one of joyful acceptance.”
Still, she admits that she occasionally thinks “oh, I wish it wasn’t like that,” but, typically, she sees herself in “the fullness” of who she is versus the “external idea” of who she is.
While appearing on a new episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, the star, 62, recalled beginning to wonder if her career was “over” when her acting opportunities began to dwindle; seen in 1996
The stagnation of his career coincided with a series of unsuccessful films beginning with The Scarlet Letter (1995), then the coming-of-age drama Now and Then and the thriller The Juror (1996); photographed in 1993
In The Substance, Moore plays a movie star whose career is in decline due to his 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.