
Demi Moore Says Nude Scenes In New Body Horror Flick Required 'Mutual Trust'
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In "The Substance," Moore plays an aging celebrity who resorts to a fictional drug to clone herself as a younger, prettier version.
Demi Moore is proud of wrangling the “vulnerability and rawness” her latest role required.
The 61-year-old “Striptease” (1996) actor stars opposite Margaret Qualley in “The Substance,” a feminist body horror flick that just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
When asked how she managed to pull off the film’s nude scenes — some of which also involve violence — Moore credited her 29-year-old co-star.
“It was a very vulnerable experience and just required, I think, going into it with a sensitivity and a lot of conversation,” she said at the press conference for the film Monday. “I think finding that common ground of mutual trust [helps].”
“And I had someone who was a great partner who I felt very safe with,” Moore continued. “And we obviously were quite close in certain moments, naked, and it allowed us also a lot of levity … at how absurd those certain situations were, with us lying on the tile floor.”