If Demi Moore is an actress who needs no introduction, at 62 years old, the film “The Substance” definitely gave a second wind to her career. After years of playing supporting roles, the American actress won a Golden Globe for the first time in her career, during the ceremony on January 5, 2025. An award which is also the first major award of her career.
Several unsuccessful nominations
Demi Moore was nominated for the Golden Globes for the first time in 1991. That year, she starred in the film “Ghost”, but did not win the distinction. Subsequently, she was also nominated in 1997 for “If These Walls Could Talk”. Without success. Also, the award received for “The Substance”, by Coralie Fargeat, was a real consecration for her.
Moved when receiving the prestigious statuette, she said she was “in shock”: “I have been doing this job for a long time, more than 45 years and this is the first time that I have won something as an actress .I’m just so humbled and so grateful.”
The harsh words of a producer that marked her
The American star took the opportunity to, as usual, denounce the bad behavior that is rampant in Hollywood, and which is also the subject of the film “The Substance”. “30 years ago, a producer told me that I was a ‘popcorn’ actress. At the time, I told myself that even if I made films that were successful and brought in a lot of money, “Money, I will never be recognized by my peers”, she confided with emotion.
“I believed in it and it destroyed me over time. So much so that I thought, a few years ago, that perhaps I had reached the end of what I knew how to do.”
The arrival of the script for “The Substance” changed everything: “I was truly at my lowest when this daring, courageous and completely crazy script arrived on my desk, the universe told me that it was not finished for me.”
Demi Moore’s lack of self-confidence
This is not the first time that Demi Moore has confided how the criticism she received had an impact on her morale. In an interview with Interview magazine in August 2024, she notably mentioned the criticism of her body, after a bikini sequence in the film “Charlie’s Angels”, when she was 40 years old.
“What’s interesting is that I felt more criticism about my appearance when I got into my 40s. I had done ‘Charlie’s Angels,’ and there was a lot of conversation around that bikini scene , and a lot of discussions revolved around my body, my appearance, I had the impression that there was no longer any place for me in Hollywood,” she emphasized. “I no longer felt like I belonged. I was no longer 20, I was no longer 30, but I was not yet seen as a mother.”
A statement that says a lot about the dictates of age and femininity in the world of showbusiness.
