A ‘comeback’? Demi Moore ‘has always been here’, says The Substance director
Coralie Fargeat says Moore ‘always delivered pretty great performances’, as talk turns to Oscar prospects of actress after Golden Globe win
Demi Moore’s Golden Globe best actress win for The Substance has, almost overnight, transformed the 1990s megastar into a seemingly unlikely favourite for the Oscars.
In her acceptance speech on January 5, the 62-year-old – who once generated headlines as much for her love life and naked Vanity Fair covers as for her hit films – said she had long been dismissed as a “popcorn actress” and had never “won anything as an actor”.
But for Coralie Fargeat, the French director who also wrote Moore’s new, blood-drenched body horror film, there is nothing surprising about the late-career reappraisal her leading lady is now enjoying.
The movie allowed audiences “to see who she is as an actress, and not project any more the stereotype that if you’re beautiful, you can’t be a good actress”.
