Demi Moore on Exploring Emotions in 'The Substance' | Variety Studio at TIFF 2024 - video Dailymotion

Demi Moore visits the Variety TIFF Studio and discusses her character's emotional journey in 'The Substance.'

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00:00And making this movie, did it ever, did it sort of lead you to reconsider or think about

00:07your own experiences in the entertainment industry or to kind of think about how that,

00:11how would it have been to kind of navigate this business?

00:13I think, I didn't really think of it in, oddly I didn't think of it in relation to myself.

00:19I feel like I could relate to it in some respects more from actually my younger years.

00:29But I knew how important this subject and how relevant this subject matter was.

00:38Not just for women, but you know, particularly for women, but I think for all of us as human

00:44beings because this delved into not just what the circumstances or the societal conditioning

00:51is, that in a way that collective consciousness that should have been shared about women and

00:58their value diminishing as they age.

01:01Because for me, what was so powerful in this is what it is that we do to ourselves.

01:09It's that idea of, you know, what someone does or doesn't do is irrelevant, but how

01:15you hold it is everything.

01:17And I felt like in the whole arc for Elizabeth is that it was all this incredible value that

01:23she was giving to everything external and how she then internalized it.

01:30And in the way that Cora Leib created a physical manifestation of that violence that we can

01:36have against ourselves, I thought would be, my hope was that it would be impactful and

01:42really resonate.