After 45 years, Demi Moore wins first major award proving she’s no ‘popcorn actress’
Demi Moore said she thought she was done with acting, but at the 82nd Golden Globes, she took home the gold for best actress.
Finally, Moore is being recognized for her contributions to cinema. The 62-year-old star, known best for making pottery sexy in “Ghost,” rocking a shaved head in “G.I. Jane” and most recently, for her acclaimed performance in the body horror flick “The Substance,” got vulnerable during her acceptance speech.
“I’m just in shock right now. I’ve been doing this a long time, like over 45 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor, and I’m just so humbled and so grateful,” she said. “Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress and at that time, I made that mean that this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged.”
Moore continued that she “bought in” and took what the producer had said to heart. “I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it? Maybe I was complete. Maybe I’ve done what I was supposed to do.”
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Moore says she was at a low point in her life when the “magical, bold, courageous, out of the box, absolutely bonkers” script came across her desk. When Moore read Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” she said the universe told her she wasn’t done with acting. “I am so grateful to Coralie for trusting me to step in and play this woman, for Margaret, for being the other half with me that I couldn’t have done without, for looking out for me. To the people who’ve been with me for over 30 years . . . all of the people who stood by me, especially the people who believed in me when I haven’t believed in myself.”
In her closing remarks, she added, “And I’ll just leave you with one thing, what I think this movie is imparting in those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough, or successful enough, or basically just not enough. I had a woman say to me, ‘Just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth, if you just put down the measuring stick.’ And so today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong.”
Moore was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1991 for her performance in “Ghost,” and in 1997 for her performance in “If These Walls Could Talk,” which she also nabbed an Emmy Awards nomination for.