The actress’s moving and brutal Cannes sensation, ‘The Substance’, ends her retreat from stardom and reveals her vulnerability after a challenging career.
A quarter-century since she last made a serious impact on screen, Demi Moore could have stayed faded. But she had other ideas.
In the ugly glare of a media spotlight that made her notorious, then gave her nicknames, no wonder she suddenly went to ground. If you wrote a book about what happens once female sex symbols turn 40, Moore could be the cover girl.is all about. Moore astounds as Elisabeth Sparkle, a once fêted star – she even won an Oscar, unlike the never-nominated woman playing her – who is brutally put out to pasture, considered too old to keep hosting a dance-workout show much like the ones Jane Fonda fronted in the 1980s.
They invested so lavishly in this place – buying up a diner, a club, in time an airstrip, and filling a renovated Victorian mansion with Moore’s collection of antique dolls – that people started calling it “Planet Haileywood”., which made her Hollywood’s highest-paid actress at the time. That film, a tatty crime comedy about lap-dancing, was a woeful choice for this crowning moment.Yet again, she was nude on the posters.
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