“Americans are really very stuck up!” said Hollywood actress Demi Moore at the Paris premiere of The Substancea trashy horror film about the tyranny of beauty and youth.
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“America is built on puritanism,” declared the star during a presentation at the Cinémathèque Française of this film, in theaters Wednesday, where she 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, Demi Moore could be offered an unexpected ticket to the Oscars thanks to The Substancesigned by a Frenchwoman, Coralie Fargeat, judges the American press.
“I would like [le cinéma] 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 who played a GI in On equal terms.
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 movie industry” and “the toughness that [les femmes] are inflicted 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!”
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