The fact that the person answering that question wasDemi Mooremultiplied the meta factor hundredfold.
Here, this newer, younger, better version gets an opportunity, and she repeats the same pattern.
Shes still looking for external validation.
Demi Moore in ‘The Substance.‘Christine Tamalet/Mubi
The idea is to reclaim her space within the industry via a pretty doppelganger.
It quickly gets ugly.
Its an often sharp satire that still skews broad, swinging wildly even when it lands its punches.
Part of what makes the movie work so beautifully, however, is the casting.
Not for nothing is the lead named Elizabeth Sparkle.
Hollywood, and a real one who gradually allowed herself to step out of the frame.
After starring inIndecent Proposal,i.e.
Its even worse than it sounds.
The narrative quickly became Well, shes only getting paid that number because shes playing a stripper.
It hit me really hard.
When she pulled a 180-degree turn and played a female soldier in the mans world of the military inG.I.
Going back to thatCharlie Angels: Full Throttlesequence that kicked off a minor resurgence of Demis back!
Moore has not been cancelled by her age shes become comfortable with it.
In fact, the key to understanding what shes doing inThe Substancemay not be those early-to-mid-1990s roles at all.
It may rest in another, far more brief appearance she makes in a 2024 movie.
When he gets to hisSt.
More than anything, she seems remarkably at peace with herself.
You immediately get the sense that she has no need for making herself a celebrity commodity anymore.
