In what could end up propelling her upcoming Oscar campaign, Demi Moore took home the Golden Globe for best female actor performance in a comedy or musical for her performance in The Substance. In a rousing speech that brought the house down, Moore told a story of how she thought she was almost done until this script fell in her lap.
“Thirty years ago I had a producer tell me I was a popcorn actress and at that time I made that mean that I wasn’t allowed to have this, that I could do movies that were successful and made a lot of money but that I wouldn’t be acknowledged and I bought in and I believed that,” Moore said. “A few years ago I thought that this was it, maybe I’ve done what I was supposed to do and then I had this magical bold courageous out of the box absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance and the universe told me you’re not done.”
Other nominees Moore beat out included Mikey Madison in Anora, Cynthia Erivo for Wicked, Zendaya for ChallengersAmy Adams for Nightbitch and Karla Sofia Gascon for Emilia Perez. This marked the first win of the night for The Substance.
Moore would finish her speech by saying what this win means going forward and how she did belong now.
“In those moments when we don’t think we are smart enough or pretty enough, or skinny enough or successful enough or basically just not enough, I had a woman say to me just know you will never be enough, but you can know the measure of your work if you just put down the measuring stick. I treat this as a marker that I do belong,” Moore said.
