Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Film and TV, Mental Health, Sex and Relationships, Golden Globes
Demi Moore has opened up about the preparation for the 'vulnerable' nude scenes in the movie she won a Golden Globe for.
After being told by a producer she was a 'popcorn actress' around 30 years ago and believing it, Demi Moore 'really wasn't expecting' to end up winning a Golden Globe at this year's 82nd Awards Ceremony.
The 62-year-old actor gave an incredibly moving speech about her experiences as an actor and has since opened up about what it was like tackling some more of the 'vulnerable' scenes in the movie she accepted the award for.
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In The Substance, Moore stars as fading celebrity Elisabeth Sparkle who takes a black-market drug after being fired by her ageist producer (Dennis Quaid).
Alas, the drug has some unexpected side effects and well, there's a reason the film has been branded 'disturbing' as well as 'utterly captivating' and 'f**king awesome'.
Within the movie, there are multiple scenes which see Moore stripped down and she admits to Woman Magazine that it was 'a very vulnerable experience' with 'a lot of conversations around it'.
"But it was taking you to the raw place that you needed to [go]," she explained.
The actor added that 'on [her] end' she felt like the nude scenes weren't 'sexualized' because 'so many of [the] scenes were about the experience of being with yourself'.
Moore continued: "And often we are with ourselves nude and it's those moments of our own personal gaze, and self-judgement. I think the depth of the vulnerability and where it took me is, in a way, what was needed to help me tap into my own vulnerability."
Moore added she believes her character's feelings of 'despair' and 'rejection' are probably emotions 'not just women' but everyone 'can all connect to on a human level'.
She said: "I've certainly walked through that at different times in my life, where I too have placed too much value on my external self, and not enough on my insides, and where I gave my power away based on being validated on what I look like.
"Ironically, it was when I was much younger. In particular, the scene where [my character] is at the precipice of being able to get out of her self-imposed prison by going on the date [...] I think that idea of going there or changing your
outfit and trying to make it better - you can make it worse.
"Again, I think we've all had moments like that. Haven't we?"
On top of that, Moore added the film also deals with how 'women have been kind of relegated to being sidelined as they age'.
She resolved: "Or, as in the film, once your fertility fades, that somehow you are less desirable. And the reality is, we all kind of agreed to that, and it's just not true."
