Demi Moore presenting an award shortly after receiving her first Golden Globe for her role in The Substance.
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62-year-old actress, Demi Moore, was in shock as she won a Golden Globe for Best Film Actress, her first award for acting in her 45-year career.
When receiving her Award, Demi talked of how she’d been dismissed as a ‘popcorn actress’ by a producer 30 years ago, and since that moment had thought awards like the Golden Globes were something ‘she was not allowed to have’.
Moore’s Golden Globe-winning performance in The Substance
The Award was for her performance in the gory film ‘The Substance‘. Its Black Mirror-type plot involves Moore playing an ageing Hollywood Star who risks taking an unregulated drug to enable her to live as a younger version of herself.
Critics are divided over the merit of the film. On one hand, it is hailed as being a timely feminist critique of modern attitudes towards beauty and ageing, on the other, a shallow and overtly gory horror.
Whatever critics’ opinions of the film, it has been a success both for Demi and at the box office. Imdb reports that the film earned $14.8 million within just ten days of its release.
Demi said that when the script for the film landed on her desk, she knew it was something special. She added that she took the opportunity to play its protagonist Elisabeth Sparkle as a sign from the universe to continue with her acting career.
A scene which was particularly powerful in terms of Moore’s acting can be seen in the film’s trailer. It shows Moore putting on her makeup in a mirror and, becoming enraged, repeatedly striking her face.
Demi Moore: previous Globe nominations
Moore has been nominated for acting awards before but has always missed out prior to her performance in ‘The Substance’.
She got a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in the 1991 blockbuster ‘Ghost’ with Patrick Swayze, the film she was previously most famous for. She was nominated again for her role in the 1997 TV movie ‘If These Walls Could Talk’.
Despite never having won an award for acting prior to ‘The Substance’, Moore rose to become one of Hollywood’s highest-paid movie actresses by the mid-1990s. Regularly being included in lists of the world’s most beautiful women, she was paid an unprecedented $12.5 million for her appearance in the 1996 film ‘Striptease’.
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