Demi Moore Says She Lost 20 Pounds, Broke Out In Shingles From 'Intensity' Of Latest Role
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The "Substance" star says she "put it all on the table" for her buzzed-about performance in the anticipated body-horror film.
Demi Moore says she “put it all on the table” for her latest role, but not without consequences.
Moore stars as a fictional A-list actor in “The Substance,” a buzzed-about body-horror flick about a new drug that allows customers to birth a younger, prettier version of themselves. Naturally, things go very much awry in the film — and apparently did in real life, too.
“To give you an idea of the intensity, my first week that I actually had off, where it was just Margaret [Qualley] working, I got shingles,” Moore told the Los Angeles Times in an expansive interview Tuesday, adding: “And I then lost, like, 20 pounds.”
Shingles is a viral infection that can occur anywhere on the body and result in a painful rash. The varicella-zoster virus, which is the same one that causes chickenpox, that’s responsible for shingles can reactivate years after initial exposure — often due to stress.
“Oh, yeah,” Qualley interjected, “I had crazy acne for a full, long-ass time.”
When Hilary Swank was 6, her family moved into a trailer park. Nine years later, her parents separated, and she and her mother relocated to LA, where they lived in their car until they could afford an apartment. After winning her first Oscar, she proudly proclaimed that she was still a coupon clipper because "when you open up the paper and you see those coupons, it looks like dollar bills staring you in the face."