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- Demi Moore said in a new interview that her recent career success has helped her better understand her self-worth
- “If something didn’t go exactly as I’d like or wasn’t what I had hoped for, [I now know,] ‘Yeah, that was a disappointment, but I’m not a disappointment,’ ” she said
- In the winter, Moore won a Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Critics Choice Award for her performance in The Substance
Demi Moore knows her worth, especially after she took Hollywood by storm with her 2024 movie The Substance and her subsequent awards season run.
When Moore, 62, spoke with Glamour and her The Substance costar Margaret Qualley for the outlet’s Woman of the Year issue in a piece published Wednesday, Oct. 22, the actress opened up about how age and critical success have shaped her perspective on her career.
“If something didn’t go exactly as I’d like or wasn’t what I had hoped for, [I now know,] ‘Yeah, that was a disappointment, but I’m not a disappointment,’ “she said. “That’s a huge difference.”
Moore, of course, won her first Golden Globe and awards at the Critics Choice Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards last winter for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former award-winning actress who uses The Substance‘s titular black-market drug to disastrous results in director Coralie Fargeat’s 2024 movie.
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Though Moore ultimately lost out on an Academy Award in March to Anora‘s Mikey Madison, she appears satisfied with the newfound energy The Substance has given her.
“With everything I’ve been through, which has been a lot, I wouldn’t trade where I am today,” she told Glamour. “And the thing that I feel like I have today that I certainly didn’t have when I was younger was the freedom to know that I don’t have to have the answer and that life is not going to be completely stolen from me if I somehow don’t know.”
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Immediately following The Substance, Moore took to the small screen with a starring role in Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ show Landman among actors like Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Hamm. She’s back in the show’s second season, which begins airing Nov. 16, and Moore told Qualley, 30, “I feel in some ways so much more energized right now,” as she continues to ride her recent success.
“I don’t know what that looks like. I look at someone like Helen Mirren and I think, Oh my God, she’s in her 80s,” Moore added of her future in acting. “And look at how dynamic—and the work that she’s doing, the diversity of the work she’s doing. And it says to me, Oh we’ve still got a lot to do.”
