With a win for best actress for a body horror film that has revitalized her career, Demi Moore has triumphantly returned to the Golden Globes.
Demi claimed that the award is “the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong.”
In a moving statement about the longevity of her career, the 61-year-old actress created the kind of goodwill that has helped catapult other winners in close races, including Michelle Yeoh for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Demi “The Popcorn Actress”
As an American actress, producer, and writer, Demi Moore is regarded as one of Hollywood’s most notable personalities, particularly in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
During her heyday in the 1980s and 1990s, she was occasionally referred to as a “popcorn actress” due to her involvement in popular, financially successful, and generally mainstream films that were not necessarily innovative or highly acclaimed.
While delivering the speech after winning the award, Moore said, “Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress and at that time I made it that awards weren’t something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but I couldn’t be acknowledged.”
Career Low Point and “The Substance”
Moore was at her lowest point during The Substance.
With a record-breaking $12.5 million for Striptease (1996), Moore became the highest-paid actress in Hollywood throughout the 1990s.
Annie Leibovitz captured her famous 1991 Vanity Fair maternity cover, which questioned social mores and encouraged body positivity.
Moore garnered nominations for her roles in Ghost and A Few Good Men, and she won an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in Indecent Proposal (1994).
She also received popularity acclaim through the People’s Choice Awards and was nominated for the Saturn Award for Ghost.
After winning the award for “The Substance,” she was in shock, noting that despite entering the industry 45 years ago, this was the first time she had ever won anything as an actor.
She was uncertain and didn’t anticipate it, given the fierce competition, which featured talents like Anora Star, Mikey Madison, Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo, and Emilia Perez star Sofia Gascon.
Netflix nears a Best Picture Oscar with Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.
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Emilia Pérez is a Spanish-language musical about a Mexican drug boss who transforms into a different gender. It took home four Oscars.
The story’s central three actresses are nominated in the early stages of red carpet events and award shows, including the Golden Globes, where they have eleven nominations, and the BAFTAs, where Conclave leads the longlist.
The transgender star Karla Sofia Gascon, who plays a Mexican drug lord who has gender-affirming surgery, spoke on behalf of the movie after French filmmaker Audiard created space for her.
Gascon said, “The Light always wins over darkness,” gesturing to her bright orange dress she wore. She also added, “ You can maybe put us in jail. You can beat us up. But you never can take away our soul or existence or identity.”
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