Who's afraid of old people?
This is the title of a fascinating investigation that we tell you about in this article. But this is also what Demi Moore is asking herself today in a very resonant way. On the set of C à Vous, the sex symbol of the 90s, finally in a return in the shock film of November, The Substance (a feminist gore fable crowned at Cannes!), raised his voice.
Facing “Babeth Lemoine”, the star of Ghost and Striptease reveals everything about his journey from the desert to Hollywood. From the age of forty, she explains, she was already perceived as a problem within this very patriarchal system: not young enough for certain roles, and still “too much” for others. At the beginning of the 2000s, she understood that the industry was banking on “glamorous capital” that it no longer had.
She says: “As soon as I reached my forties, I felt like I was still too young to carry certain stories and on the one hand… Too old to be attractive. I was in the middle of nowhere, in no man's land, and I didn't know where I belonged“
What Demi Moore is denouncing here is ageism.
An exclusion of “elderly” women that we dissect in this investigation into Terrafemina. And to this, Demi Moore ended up retorting… Very physically.
From her bikini at 40 to this nude scene at 60: how Demi Moore erects her body into a political symbol against “anti-old sexism”
While speaking, Demi Moore brings up a very specific example.
“When I wore a bikini for the movie Charlie's Angels 2 20 years ago, I was criticized for no longer being the right age for the role“, saddens the star within the famous France 5 talk show. Indeed, this sequence in a very glamorous swimsuit had shaken up within the set, and elsewhere, some judging the actress too old to stroll like this on the beach, at the alongside Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Drew Barrymore At 40, Demi Moore would be “too old to be sexy”.
She testifies to this in this article. And if this very glamorous extract seems anecdotal, it is not. Demi Moore expresses herself through her body and her sexuality. She makes it a language that she reappropriates. 20 years later Charlie’s Angels 2the actress literally bares herself in a very daring scene from The Substance.
In this scene from the film released in theaters this week, Demi Moore is revealed in her Eve outfit, facing the camera head-on. This is what we call a “full frontal”, and a crucial narrative spring (these shots will subsequently be diverted in the film, enriched with a new meaning), but above all, it is an intimate and policy.
Sixty-year-old, the actress debunks those who consider her “too old” for this type of scene. Through her own physique, she serves the feminist discourse of Coralie Fargeat's film. The story of a “has-been” ready to do anything to find eternal youth, even if it means sacrificing… Well, her body, precisely. Facing the mirror, naked, Demi Moore embodies a character and yet, it is herself that she seems to be playing. We tell you everything about the details of this plan in this article.
Another “baring” sequence is extremely important in this film: when the actress prepares for a long time for a “date”, puts on makeup, puts on makeup, takes off makeup, tirelessly, until she goes crazy. The lipstick that she adds or removes then disfigures her. As an indication of the horrific flashes of this very radical UFO.
These are two refined, immodest, and powerful scenes. From her bikini at 40 to this nude scene at 60, Demi Moore erects her body as a political symbol against “anti-old sexism”
Morbid tale about youthism, the exclusion of so-called “elderly” women in the industry and the dictatorship of beauty, The Substance is a slap in the face. We explain why here.
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