“Americans are really, really stuck” says Demi Moore

(Paris) “The Americans are really very stuck! “, launched Hollywood actress Demi Moore on the occasion of the Paris premiere of The Substancea 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’s a lot of fear around the body in America, which I never understood,” she continued.

At 61 years old, The Substancesigned 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 Ghostwho opposite Robert Redford in Indecent proposal or played an GI in G.I. Jane.

Screenplay Prize at Cannes, The Substance features Demi Moore as a former TV fitness star plagued by 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 at 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! “.