In case you’ve not heard, Demi is gearing up for an performing comeback in The Substance, a forthcoming physique horror movie all about magnificence requirements, getting older, and poisonous masculinity.
The Substance — which hits theatres Sept. 20 — has obtained a ton of hype because it premiered at Cannes Movie Pageant in Might. And now, in dialog with Michelle Yeoh for Interview Journal, Demi bought actual about her expertise with getting older within the limelight and the way the movie is a “reflection of our human situation.”
Speaking extra particularly about how the script resonated together with her, Demi recalled dealing with extra scrutiny over her look when she entered her 40s within the early 2000s.
“What’s attention-grabbing is I felt [the criticism] extra after I hit my forties,” she stated earlier than calling again to a selected scene she did in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, which got here out in 2003, across the time she started courting Ashton Kutcher.
In response, Michelle — who’s only some months older than Demi — agreed that “Hollywood is merciless to girls of that age.”
Whereas discussing The Substance at a Cannes press convention in Might, Demi opened up about having to return to phrases with the “vulnerability and rawness” of her personal physique whereas capturing the movie’s specific nude scenes — together with a “bare, no-holds-barred bloody battle” between her and Margaret’s characters.
