Moore originally gained notoriety with Brat Pack songs from the 1980s, such as “St. Elmo’s Fire.” In 1991, she received a Globe nomination for the popular romantic film Ghost. She became a Hollywood celebrity in the 1990s because to hits like “Indecent Proposal” and “Striptease,” which brought in a record $12.5 million at the time, and her marriage to fellow actor Bruce Willis.
However, she claimed at the Globes that the producer’s remark, which represented her being seen as only a commercial performance, “corroded me over time.” She had considered giving up acting, but she was drawn back in by what she described as “the magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script” for “The Substance.”
Academy voters aren’t usually drawn to gore, so Coralie Fargeat’s brazenly gory film “The Substance” was an unusual Oscar nominee. This year, however, was an exception: Fargeat received nods for both best director and best screenplay, and the film is in the race for best picture.
In “The Substance,” Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-list celebrity who now hosts a fitness program on television, as she is abruptly rejected by the business for being older. Elisabeth is able to give birth to a younger, more nubile version of herself (Margaret Qualley) thanks to the title’s enigmatic elixir. There are many grotesqueries, both real and symbolic.
Fargeat sought to criticize beauty standards and achieve an extreme, nearly hilarious degree of gross-out. She stated, “The Substance,” prior to the film’s win for best screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival last year, “is very much about what, as a woman, we have to conform to and how it impacts our life socially.”
She described how warped her sense of self was in her best-selling 2019 memoir, “Inside Out,” and how she battled compulsive eating and overexercising for years. In an interview last year, she stated, “I was giving other people’s opinions more power than myself and putting all of my value of who I was into how my body was and how it looked.”
She revealed from the Globes stage that it was one of the reasons “The Substance” spoke to her so strongly. “In the times when we feel that we are not smart enough, attractive enough, successful enough, thin enough, or simply not good enough.” “Just know, you will never be enough,” a woman once told me. But if you just put down the measuring stick, you may determine your own worth.
