Demi Moore’s Golden Globe Speech Was A Beautiful Ode To Self-Love

On Sunday, Demi Moore, 62, took home a Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Musical or Comedy. The win was the result of Moore’s leading role in The Substance.

Despite Moore’s illustrious career that has spanned over 45 years, this Golden Globe is Moore’s first-ever acting award.

During her acceptance speech, Moore gave a moving account of her time in Hollywood and how she thought she was done with her acting career; that is until The Substance.

Moore mentioned how a producer early in her career referred to her as a “popcorn actress,” meaning she would be in successful films that made money but her work would never be realized or acknowledged.

“I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it,” Moore shared. “Maybe I was complete, maybe I’ve done what I was supposed to do. And as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance.“

The Substance is the story of Moore’s character Elisabeth Sparkle, an actress, who begins taking a black market substance meant to make her the best version of herself. In an interview with NPR’s Fresh Air, Moore explained that the film looked deeper into the pressure many middle-aged women experience to remain youthful as they age.

Moore expressed gratitude to the movie’s director as well as her co-star and everyone who believed in her. Moore ended her speech with a beautiful message of self-love and self-acceptance:

“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 a measuring stick,” said Moore.

“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 continued. “Thank you so much.”