is looking back on the attention she got from her bikini scene. In a conversation with Michelle Yeoh for magazine, published Tuesday, the actress reflected on feeling like there wasn’t a place for her in the industry amid the “heightened” conversation about her physical looks. Moore was 40 years old when she filmed the 2003 sequel to and recalled struggling with her identity given the attention she received for that bikini scene.
Moore is 61 now. “I had done , and there was a lot of conversation around this scene in a bikini, and it was all very heightened, a lot of talk about how I looked. And then I found that there didn’t seem to be a place for me.
I didn’t feel like I didn’t belong. It’s more like I felt that feeling of, I’m not 20, I’m not 30, but I wasn’t yet what they perceived as a mother,” Moore explained. When Yeoh added the question that possibly arose, “Where do I fit in?”, Moore agreed.
“Yeah, where do I fit in? It was a time that felt, not dead, but flat,” she said. Yeoh chimed in adding: “Hollywood is cruel to women of that age, where you don’t find the scripts or the characters that resonate with you anymore. It’s either, you are the mother or you’re old enough not to be sexy in their eyes.
It’s like, why can’t a 45-year-old, a 50-year-old or 60-year-old, be sexy? But that whole perception is undergoing a lot of change because people like you and me won’t sit back and just take it.” “No. And I don’t know if I.