After having distinguished herself in cult films like Ghost,
Striptease, St Elmo’s fire or Charlie’s angelsDemi Moore has been discreet in the cinema for around twenty years. But here she is back in a leading role with The substancea film by French director Coralie Fargeat in which she plays an aerobics teacher fired on her 50th birthday due to her age. Disappointed, Elisabeth (the name of her character) sees hope when a laboratory offers her a mysterious substance that can offer her the best version of herself, “younger, more beautiful, more perfect”.
Demi Moore explains how she deals with getting older
A critically acclaimed film that Demi Moore came to defend on the set of C à Vous this Tuesday. Obviously, the opportunity was too good not to question the actress on the subject that the feature film denounces, namely the place of women past a certain age. “Getting older and getting older is no fun for anyone. But how do you experience it?”, asks Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine of her guest, who will celebrate her 62nd birthday on November 11. Then to add, focusing on the physique of the actress: “We don't have the same strengths, eh!”
“Yes, society imposes standards on us, there is a collective conscience which accepts that people of a certain age are set aside”, concedes Demi Moore. “But if we really want to make a change, it happens through the way we behave. When we change from within, when we support our values, when we see our beauty, then society will change too”, assures the actress before concluding: “It has to start with us”.
Demi Moore: the actress' physique was already talked about 30 years ago
And Demi Moore didn't wait until she was over sixty to undergo
the look of Hollywood. Considered a sex symbol in the 90s, the actress shocked the world by proudly embracing her pregnancies at a time when famous women preferred to hide them. Its An emblematic Vanity Fair in 1991 in particular, when she was pregnant with her second daughter, had unleashed puritan America, so much so that several brands at the time refused to distribute the magazine.
