Demi Moore Addresses Extreme Nudity, Violence in Cannes Shocker ‘The Substance’

Demi Moore Addresses Extreme Nudity, Violence in Cannes Shocker ‘The Substance’
Co-star Dennis Quaid called Moore's performance in Coralie Fargeat’s body horror movie “the beginning of an incredible third act” for the actress.
Demi Moore said performing in Coralie Fargeat’s body horror shocker The Substance required accepting a “level of vulnerability and rawness” with regard to her own body on screen.

Moore put it all out there for the film, a gory, campy satire on beauty standards, toxic masculinity and female self-hatred, with the movie’s frequent and prominent nudity, as well as its gruesome violence, attracting a lot of attention after its world premiere in Cannes. Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, an acclaimed actress turned celebrity host of a daytime exercise program who gets replaced by a younger, more beautiful star (Margaret Qualley), sparking a confrontation between the two women. One of the more graphic scenes in the movie shows Moore and Qualley having a naked, no-holds-barred bloody fight. The Cannes audience loved it, giving the film a rapturous reception Sunday night.