“Americans are really very uptight!” said Hollywood actress Demi Moore at the Paris premiere of “The Substance”, a trashy horror film about the tyranny of beauty and youth.
“America is built on puritanism,” declared the star during a presentation at the Cinémathèque Française of this film, in theaters Wednesday, where it explodes the shackles of Hollywood modesty. “Generally speaking, sexuality remains a taboo. There is a lot of fear around the body in America, which I never understood,” she continued.
At 61, “The Substance”, signed by a Frenchwoman, Coralie Fargeat, could offer Demi Moore an unexpected ticket to the Oscars ceremony, judges the American press.
“I would like (the cinema) to stop taking women for objects, these are old clichés, old and worn out,” added the actress revealed in “Ghost”, who played opposite Robert Redford in “Proposal indecent” or played a GI in “On Equal Arms”.
Winner of the screenplay prize at Cannes, “The Substance” features Demi Moore as a former fitness star on TV who is prey to the injunction to age while looking “young”.
Demi Moore said she was drawn to the fact that the film was about “being an aging actress in the film industry” and “the harshness that (women) inflict on themselves.”
The Hollywood star, who shot this film in France before presenting it in Cannes, also had a few words in the form of a wink for his dog, a pocket model favored by photographers.
“His name is Pilaf the little mouse, he weighs 700 grams and is easy to transport!”, she joked. “He has come to Paris 17 times so he is very comfortable in French. More than me!”
published on November 5 at 10:30 p.m., AFP
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