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Demi Moore is shining bright during the awards season in Hollywood. The 62-year-old actress who, in 1990, surged to the top of the box office and stole millions of hearts with Ghost has come back into the limelight in a phenomenal way.
Moore just bagged the SAG award for ‘Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role’ at this year’s ceremony on February 23 for her role in French director Coralie Fargeat's The Substance.
Moore was presented the award by Irish actor Colin Farrell who was the Best Actor in a Limited Series recipient. Coming onto the stage to receive the award, Moore joked,
“I’m gonna pick it up just to see how heavy it is”
Moore began her acceptance speech by recalling her initial days in the film industry. She said,
“This is extraordinary and so deeply meaningful. As I was thinking about this night, I released I hadn’t thought back to when I got my membership to this incredible organization. It was in 1978, I was 15, almost 16. And it changed my life because it gave me meaning, its gave me purpose, it gave me direction…Because I was a kid on my own, who had no blueprint for life.”
Moore addressed the acting community and said,
“And I certainly knew nothing about acting, but I watched and I listened, and I learned from all of you. You have all been my greatest teachers, and I am so so grateful that I have continued over the so many years to be able to try and sometimes succeed and to sometimes fails, but to be able to keep going. And I couldn’t not do that without the support of my incredible team, the people who’ve stood behind me…And I just wanna point out that as I watched and learned, just to bring forward this idea that as a young actor, it was the casting director and directors, and producers who got me n the room to audition where I could feel you and you could feel me. And your feedback meant everything. It’s what’s helped me.”
Demi Moore’s award count is heavy this season
The Substance is one of the films slated to finish the awards season with a bang and Demi Moore is the horror film’s most-awarded participant.
The actress started big with a Golden Globe award for Best Female Actor Performance in a Comedy or Musical on January 5. Expressing her surprise, Moore said,
“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.”
Moore shared that she assumed her career was over before she received an offer to play a role in The Substance. She said emotionally,
“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. And the universe told me that you’re not done.”
She went on to thank the director, Fargeat for the role.
Moore’s Golden Globe was followed by a Critics Choice Award win for Best Actress on February 7.
“This has been such a wild ride, I can’t tell you.”
Acknowledging the other actresses nominated in the category, Moore thanked them and said,
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“This has been the greatest gift of this whole process, is, getting to spend time, getting to know you and to share in your stories.”
Fans of Demi Moore are sure to be delighted with this news, especially considering that the actress has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Looking forward to the Oscars, which will be presented on March 2, here’s hoping that Demi Moore and The Substance continue their glorious run.
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