A major Hollywood director harshly criticized Golden Globe winner Demi Moore for her behavior on the set of her film.
Adrian Lyne, who directed the 1993 hit Indecent Proposal, said. The screening audience in Manhattan Moore, 62, was “strange.”
“There’s no way on God’s earth we can top this,” Lyne admitted he thought while filming was processing.
But he said he had to put the conflict out of his mind and “think about the weather, think about what would make me laugh.”
Lyne, 83, made the comments during a screening of his 1990 film Jacob’s Ladder at the Roxy theater in midtown Manhattan in November.
He joked with the audience. “I’m not going to say who the actress was,” he said. ‘Except it was Demi Moore!
Demi Moore, 62, won the Golden Globe for Best Female Actress in a Comedy or Musical on Sunday for her comeback film The Substance.
Adrian Lyne directed Moore, 62, in Indecent Proposal. He revealed their heated confrontations on set at a screening and called her “strange.”
Lyne recounted a moment during filming when he told Moore that he didn’t like her and that she didn’t like him, but that they had to “get over this piece of s**t.”
‘I remember sitting down with her and saying, ‘Listen, you don’t like me and I don’t like you, but we have to get over this shit!’
And after that it worked! It kind of worked, really.
Moore had never won a major acting award before Sunday, when she went home with the Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for the film The Substance. She was a big favorite for her portrayal of a fading actress who takes a black market pill to look younger.
Critics called it the best performance of his career.
Although Moore had never before addressed the specific confrontation with the Englishman Lyne.
But she did describe her discomfort with him in Indecent Proposal, in which she starred alongside Woody Harrelson.
Moore starred in Indecent Proposal alongside Woody Harrelson. The film was hugely controversial due to its raunchy sex scenes, but it was a box office success.
Moore wrote in her memoir that filming Indecent Proposal was a ‘job’ and how ‘creepy’ her experience was filming sex scenes on set.
Moore said Lyne wouldn’t stop talking during the film’s sex scene and alleged that she screamed ‘Damn, obscene! Oh God, I was bored with that!’
It told the story of a couple who, after losing big bets in Las Vegas, accept the offer of a billionaire, played by Robert Redford, who promised them $1 million if he could sleep with Diana, Moore’s character.
Moore argued with Lyne about a variety of issues, including filming sex scenes and her weight. Moore recalled in her memoir Inside Out that Lyne had told her, “You’ve lost a lot of weight” between the time she was cast and the film test.
“At first, I took it as a compliment and explained that I didn’t want to feel self-conscious about all the love scenes coming up, so I had been working hard on my body,” Moore wrote.
“I don’t think he heard a word I was saying. He just kept looking at me with a disturbed expression on his face.
Finally he spat out, “I don’t want you to look like a damn man!” My head was spinning as I left his office.
Moore added: “Very reluctantly, Adrian backed down.”
But weight problems caused by Lyne’s response to Moore’s exercise regimen continued to affect her during filming.
“The look on his face every time he saw me in sneakers or on a bicycle was one of disapproval, almost disgust, and no matter how much I recoiled, it began to affect me,” he reflected in his memoirs.
“By the time we finished the movie, he had managed to get into my head, to the point that I had gained all the weight he wanted me to gain in the beginning.
“I felt almost unbearably uncomfortable with it,” she said.
Moore also wrote that filming Indecent Proposal was “hard work” and described her “creepy” experience filming sex scenes on set: “I knew Glenn Close, and she warned me that Adrian was a strange guy to work with on sex scenes. love… Adrian is a true voyeur, which partly explains why his films are so interesting and powerful.
Moore became the highest-paid actress in film history when she received $12.5 million for starring in Striptease, but was nicknamed ‘Gimme Moore’ for her extravagant demands on set.
“But on set it’s very strange: he literally wouldn’t stop talking, he was practically screaming! The whole time we were filming the sex scenes. “Damn, obscene! “Oh God, I went crazy with that!” he shouted.
‘”Come on, grab his penis!” It was creepy at first: there was this guy with that kind of long-haired British rocker look, sweating and getting excited, yelling about motherfuckers.
“But once I got used to it, I saw its advantages: Adrian continuing in that way made me focus on my own discomfort because it was so exaggerated… I knew not to take his outbursts at face value.”
In the end, the couple reached a compromise regarding filming the sex scenes, agreeing that “he would be free to film the sex scenes however he wanted, but in the end I was able to review the footage and if there was anything I felt, it was too much.” . invasive or gratuitous, I would cut it.’
But she concluded: “As crazy as Adrian and I went, I have to say I’ve never been photographed more beautifully.”
Lyne admitted during her talk at the Roxy Cinema that she has found it ‘difficult’ to film sex scenes.
Lyne admitted during her talk at the Roxy Cinema that she has found it “difficult” to film sex scenes, despite Moore’s description of her alleged on-set behavior during filming.
Before she was given the opportunity to star in The Substance, Moore believed her career was winding down and reflected in her award acceptance speech about a moment when a director called her a “popcorn actress.”
He said: “I always find it hard to isolate sex and what makes me angry, and it happens to me a lot, is when they talk about sex being smut, this word ‘smut’ endlessly… I just try to make it real. really and fun. .
‘I think in a sexuality scene you always have a place where you can laugh with them. Because if you don’t have that, people tend to get embarrassed and laugh at the scene, and then you’re dead.’
Indecent Proposal was a huge box office hit, grossing more than $250 million worldwide, and following Moore’s other leading roles in Ghost and A Few Good Men, it reinforced her status as one of Hollywood’s leading ladies of the ’90s. .
The film – and its controversial premise – divided critics upon its release. Some praised the sordid nature of the story, while others criticized it for its “sexist” depiction of women.
rolling stone described the film as “sexist propaganda”, calling it “candy with malice”, while feminist author Betty Friedan criticized the film’s plot, insisting that it was going to teach 13-year-old girls that they “don’t need to bother” with their homework and instead just “diet enough to be anorexic, get some silicone and go for that.” . reclusive billionaire,” according to the LA Times.
However, Moore, who was married to Bruce Willis at the time, defended the film and said vanity fair about the film’s controversial plot.
Moore and her The Substance co-star Margaret Qualley spoke onstage at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday.
Moore was married to her second husband, Bruce Willis, at the time she was making Indecent Proposal. She defended the film’s obscenity amid accusations that it was “sexist.”
She said: “I never felt like it was derogatory…her body, to me, was the least important sacrifice she made, compared to the potential loss of her marriage, which was something she valued more than anything.”
In 1996, she became the highest-paid actress in film history when she received $12.5 million for starring in Striptease. But Moore also received the nickname ‘Gimme Moore’ for his extravagant demands on set.
In Moore’s award acceptance speech on Sunday, she revealed that before landing her role in The Substance she feared her Hollywood career might be over.
During her speech, she recounted a memory from 30 years ago when a director called her a ‘popcorn actress,’ and said, ‘…that gnawed at me over time, to the point where I thought, a few years ago, that maybe this was all. Maybe it was complete. Maybe he would…he had done what he was supposed to do.
‘And because I was at a low point, I found on my desk this magical, bold, brave, innovative, absolutely crazy script called The Substance. And the universe told me that you’re not done yet.’
He concluded his speech by saying he was celebrating “this as a marker of my fulfillment and the love that drives me, and for the gift of doing something I love and remembering that I belong.”
Moore said in her acceptance speech Sunday that when she received the role in The Substance it was “the universe” telling her that she wasn’t done with her career yet.
In contrast to Moore’s hot streak, Lyne has made just one film in the past two decades, 2022’s Deep Water, starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.
He admitted during his talk at the Roxy Cinema that he had mixed feelings about cinema.
Lyne said: ‘I hate the film-making process. I think it’s just horrible. All of this combines to scare people: the bell rings, the clapperboard rings, and someone shouts for silence. By then everyone is scared.
But he added that he still hoped to film a new movie titled One Neck, a serial killer thriller set in the wealthy Long Island enclave of the Hamptons.