Demi Moore isn’t terrified of growing old like her Substance character, Elizabeth Sparkle. “Once we chase one thing out of the drive of all that we’re not, once we deal with that, then we will’t be celebrating all that we’re,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2024.
In The Substance, Moore stars as a fading movie star who, after being by her producer because of her age, makes use of a black market drug that creates a youthful model of herself. Whereas Moore feels completely different about growing old now, she confessed that her mindset hasn’t at all times been like this. “I checked out these compilation reels [montages highlighting her work at recent award ceremonies] going, ‘Oh wow, truly I used to be cute,’” she mentioned. “However I also can look again and bear in mind how important I used to be, all of the issues that I discovered unsuitable with myself. So it’s one thing that can be a job that has to begin from inside.”
She additionally famous the variations and similarities between her and Elizabeth. “Elizabeth Sparkle and I are very completely different,” she mentioned. “In the event you discover, she has no buddies, she has no household, she has no stability in her life. Her total reflection of worth is just on the exterior. What I did relate to shouldn’t be what was being finished to her, however what she did to herself. As a result of once more, I’ve skilled it in many alternative methods. It’s not that I don’t nonetheless expertise it. The distinction immediately is I’ve completely different instruments. I’ve a distinct approach of catching it and shifting it and figuring out what’s actual and what’s not actual, and that the worth of who I actually am isn’t just my exterior self. I feel that that’s one thing that comes with chronological time on this earth. However that rejection and ache, out of a want to hunt some sense of perfection, I actually understood.”
Whereas Moore hasn’t confirmed whether or not she’s ever had any beauty procedures, a supply advised Life & Fashion in February 2025 that she had her cheek filler dissolved forward of the 2025 Oscars. “Demi is drawing consideration, as a result of she’s clearly had some issues eliminated,” the insider mentioned. “She’s easing up on the nip/tucks, her cheeks look extra pure, so she might have had her cheek filler dissolved.” The supply continued, “There could be some left, but it surely’s not as apparent as earlier than. There are different telltale indicators she’s stress-free on the fillers and Botox.”
Regardless of cosmetic surgery rumors, Dr. Mark Solomons, who stars on Channel 4’s 10 Years Youthful and has not handled Moore, advised Hiya! journal that he believes her youthful look is because of her “unimaginable bone construction” moderately than a ton of beauty procedures. “Demi’s a pure magnificence,” Life & Fashion’s supply added. The insider continued, “It’s a Hollywood development that’s gotten approach uncontrolled and fortuitously Demi isn’t falling for it, a minimum of not like she was. She’s nonetheless centered on sustaining her youthful glow, however she’s choosing much less invasive issues like micro needling, facials and simply taking good care of herself with food plan, train and getting loads of sleep.”
In her interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Moore defined that she believes the stress of growing old impacts everybody, irrespective of their gender and the way previous they’re.
“I received a name from my agent saying, ‘There’s this script. It’s received numerous curiosity. It’s positively actually completely different,’” she mentioned of how she was forged in The Substance. “He began to say one thing else after which mentioned, “However what? I truly don’t need to say something.’ And I understand now, what may he have mentioned? He mentioned, ‘I simply suppose you must learn it and see what you suppose.’ There was maybe just a little couching out of the sensitivity of coping with growing old. Everyone is completely different of their relationship to that and their very own sensitivity to it; someone may really feel it hits too near house. However for me, I used to be fairly blown away after I learn this.”
She continued, “It actually captivated me, the best way by which it was exploring this topic of growing old and, particularly, that violence that we will have towards ourselves, the best way by which all of us — women and men alike — can dissect and criticize our personal reflection. It simply felt so relatable, on a human stage. The opposite a part of it was new territory for me — a physique horror movie. However as an actor, there have been so many fascinating challenges, not simply the bodily facet of it, with the prosthetics, however the emotional rawness needing to be conveyed with little or no dialogue.”
She additionally advised the journal about how she was advised she appeared each too younger and too previous when she returned to performing after taking a break to look after her three younger kids within the 2000s. “I appeared too good to play older, and was not younger sufficient to play the others.” She now elaborates, “I didn’t fairly know the place I match or the place I belonged,” she mentioned. “I actually did hit a degree the place I began to surprise, not like, ‘Is that this over?’ However, ‘Is that this truly full? Have I finished what I used to be speculated to do on this?’”
