“I’ve reached a point where – I don’t want to say failed, because I’m not failing, I’m not even desperate, but I’m just kind of flat, neutral,” Demi Moore she said while sitting in her Beverly Hills home recording an episode hollywood reporterof Awards chatter podcast.
Accompanied by a teacup Chihuahua, the 62-year-old recounted her previous career status substancenew Coralie FargetIn the film she directed, she played out the life of a Hollywood star who becomes increasingly abandoned as she ages and takes extreme measures to try to retain her youth and beauty.
“Then,” she continued, “I got a call from my agent saying, ‘There’s this script. There’s a lot of interest in it. It’s definitely very different.’ He started saying something else and then said, ‘But you You know? I actually didn’t want to say anything. I realized now, what else could he say? He said, “I just think you should read it and see what you think. “It’s a little vague, perhaps out of sensitivity to aging. Everyone’s relationship to this and their sensitivity to it is different; some may feel it hits too close to home. But for me, I was shocked when I read this article.
“It really fascinates me,” she emphasizes, “the way it explores the subject of aging, particularly the violence we can inflict on ourselves, the ways in which all of us – men and women alike – can dissect and critique our own Reflection. On a human level, it felt very relatable. The other part of it was new territory for me – a body horror movie, but there were a lot of interesting challenges as an actor, not just in terms of the prosthetics. , and the emotions that need to be conveyed with very little dialogue.
Moore, of course, has been a movie star and sex symbol for 40 years. this new york times used to describe her early films, such as the 1985 st elmo’s fire1990s ghost1992 some good men1996 striptease and 1997 U.S. Army Jane“helped define the 1980s and 1990s.” She was also nominated for an Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Golden Globe Awards. But she is like this now, thanks to her substancealso began to be widely praised as a great actress. In fact, her performance in the film will likely lead to her first Oscar nomination.
Moore’s own journey to Hollywood has been a roller coaster ride. Early on, she made a rare string of top-grossing blockbusters. But after she became the first actress to earn $12.5 million, stripteasethere seems to be some target on her back. “Anyone who moves first will be hit,” she explained.
She has since received a disproportionate number of negative reviews and a Golden Raspberry Award. Her mother died. She and her then-husband bruce willy Breakup and eventual divorce. She came to the conclusion that she needed to take time off from work to focus on her three young children, with whom she moved to Idaho.
About five years later, when she was ready to return to acting, the foundations of her career had changed. As she once said, “I look too good to play someone older, but not young enough to play anyone else.” She now elaborates, “I don’t quite know where I fit in, And not knowing where I belonged,” she added. “I did start to think, rather than, ‘Is this over? ‘” But, ‘Is this really done?’ Did I do what I was supposed to do in this matter?
Elisabeth Sparkle, Moore’s character in the film substanceare forced to face similar problems and seek quick external solutions. Moore says that, thankfully, she approaches aging differently: “When we chase something from our own motivation that doesn’t exist, when we focus on it, we fail to celebrate all that we are.”
That’s not to say she doesn’t suffer from the same concerns that plagued Sparkle, just that she’s found ways to deal with them. “I read these compilation scrolls [montages highlighting her work at recent award ceremonies] Go, “Oh wow, actually I was Lovely. But I can also look back and remember how picky I was and all the things I saw wrong with myself. So this is really a job that has to start from within.
Moore’s life also differed from Sparkle’s in other important ways. “Elizabeth Sparkle and I are very different,” she stressed. “If you notice, she has no friends, no family, and her life is unbalanced. All her worth is in appearance. What concerns me is not what people do to her, but what she does to herself. Things to do. Because again I’ve experienced it in many different ways. It’s not that I don’t. still Experience it. The difference today is that I have different tools. I have a different way of capturing it and changing it, knowing what is real and what is not real, that my true value is more than just my outer self. I think this comes with the order of time on earth. But of course I understand the rejection and pain that comes from pursuing a sense of perfection.
