Demi Moore isn’t fearful of ageing like her Substance character, Elizabeth Sparkle. “After we chase one thing out of the drive of all that we’re not, once we give attention to that, then we are able to’t be celebrating all that we’re,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter in 2024.
In The Substance, Moore stars as a fading celeb who, after being by her producer resulting from her age, makes use of a black market drug that creates a youthful model of herself. Whereas Moore feels completely different about ageing now, she confessed that her mindset hasn’t all the time been like this. “I checked out these compilation reels [montages highlighting her work at recent award ceremonies] going, ‘Oh wow, really I used to be cute,’” she mentioned. “However I can even look again and keep in mind how essential I used to be, all of the issues that I discovered fallacious with myself. So it’s one thing that is mostly a job that has to start out 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 pals, she has no household, she has no stability in her life. Her total reflection of worth is simply on the exterior. What I did relate to isn’t what was being accomplished to her, however what she did to herself. As a result of once more, I’ve skilled it in many various methods. It’s not that I don’t nonetheless expertise it. The distinction immediately is I’ve completely different instruments. I’ve a distinct manner of catching it and shifting it and realizing what’s actual and what’s not actual, and that the worth of who I actually am is not only my exterior self. I believe that that’s one thing that comes with chronological time on this earth. However that rejection and ache, out of a need 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 & Type 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, nevertheless it’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 Hey! journal that he believes her youthful look is because of her “unimaginable bone construction” relatively than a ton of beauty procedures. “Demi’s a pure magnificence,” Life & Type’s supply added. The insider continued, “It’s a Hollywood development that’s gotten manner uncontrolled and luckily Demi isn’t falling for it, at the very least not like she was. She’s nonetheless targeted 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 regimen, train and getting loads of sleep.”
In her interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Moore defined that she believes the strain of ageing 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 a variety of curiosity. It’s undoubtedly actually completely different,’” she mentioned of how she was solid in The Substance. “He began to say one thing else after which mentioned, “However you realize what? I really don’t need to say something.’ And I understand now, what might he have mentioned? He mentioned, ‘I simply suppose you must learn it and see what you suppose.’ There was maybe slightly couching out of the sensitivity of coping with ageing. Everyone is completely different of their relationship to that and their very own sensitivity to it; any individual would possibly really feel it hits too near dwelling. However for me, I used to be fairly blown away once I learn this.”
She continued, “It actually captivated me, the best way during which it was exploring this topic of ageing and, specifically, that violence that we are able to have in opposition to ourselves, the best way during 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 attention-grabbing challenges, not simply the bodily aspect 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 some extent the place I began to marvel, not like, ‘Is that this over?’ However, ‘Is that this really full? Have I accomplished what I used to be imagined to do on this?’”