Demi Moore on "The Substance" and resisting a toxic beauty culture

Demi Moore has lived in her home since 2005."It's had some interesting incarnations," she said.

"It was a house with three kids, and now it's just me and my silly pack of dogs."It's hard to think of Moore as a grandmother who lives alone, but here she is, and doing what some are calling the best work of her career.Her latest film, "The Substance," is about an aging TV star who finds a sinister-looking potion that can give her a younger, more perfect version of herself, but at a terrible price."I put so much pressure on myself," she said, when discussing the value she had placed on her attractiveness in the past.

"And I did have experiences of being told to lose weight.And all of those, while they may have been embarrassing and humiliating, it's what I did to myself because of that." To watch a trailer for "The Substance" click on the video player below:For example, when she was shooting 1993's "Indecent Proposal," she would ride a bike every day from her home in Malibu to Paramount Studios in Hollywood: that's around 30 miles each way.

And she was nursing a baby at the time: "I think she was, like, five or six months old when we were shooting that.So, I was feeding her through the night, getting up in the dark with a trainer, with headlamp, biking all the way to Paramount, wherever, even on location where we were shooting; then shooting a full day, which is usually a 12-hour day; and then starting all over again.

Even just the idea of, like, what I did to my body, it's, like, so crazy, so ridiculous."But, she said, she thought it was what was required of her at the time: "Yeah.But you look back and you kinda go, 'Did it really matter that much?' Probably not! But at the time, I made it mean everything."Moore's been in the spotlight since the '80s – a talented, and at the time troubled, member of Hollywood's so-called "Brat Pack." On-screen she sparkled, in films like "St.

Elmo's Fire" and "About Last Night." Off-screen, she struggled with self-...

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