Hollywood actress Demi Moore has said there did not seem to be “a place” for her in the industry when she was in her 40s. The Ghost actress, 61, reflected on her role in horror film The Substance, in which she plays a fading Hollywood beauty who turns back time with a new drug. Advertisement In conversation with Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh for Interview magazine, Moore said the way Yeoh had described the movie and how it explores self-loathing and the inability to accept who you are is what “moved” her when she read the script.
Dennis Quaid and Demi Moore at the photocall for The Substance during the 77th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes (Doug Peters/PA) She said: “It was such a unique way to be exploring this issue of aging, of societal conditioning, of what I also see as the pressure of the male-idealized woman that we as women have bought into. Advertisement Advertisement “At the core of it, what it’s really about is what we do to ourselves, and I loved that it was illustrated in such a physical way – showing that violence with what we do with our thoughts, how we attack ourselves and distort things.” Moore said Yeoh had reflected “the idea of remembering that we can define where we want it to go and who we are” in her Oscars speech.
When Yeoh, 62, won the lead actress award for Everything Everywhere All At Once in 2023, she told women to not “let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime”. Moore added: “To me, what’s exciting is, in.