Demi Moore has made a serious career comeback.
88buzz.xyz can reveal how the Striptease star went from being branded a “popcorn” actress to clinching her first-ever Golden Globe award.
Moore, 62, came out victorious at Sunday night’s award show for her performance in The Substance.
The 62-year-old was a leading lady in the 90s – starring in hit films including A Few Good Men, Ghost, Indecent Proposal and G.I. Jane – but her career hit a lull, and she seemingly stepped out of the spotlight.
Despite her impressive resume – which included four Golden Globe nominations, as well as an Emmy and SAG award nods – Moore’s earlier work never won her a major acting award.
That all changed when she signed up to star in the 2024 thriller about a 50-year-old aerobics performer who’s offered a substance promising to transform her into an enhanced version of herself.
Moore delivered a critically acclaimed performance of Elisabeth Sparkle in the film, which sparked discourse over Hollywood and society’s beauty standards and objectification of women.
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when Moore took the stage to accept her first major award – and noted in her speech how she was once dubbed a “popcorn” actress.
Amid thundering applause from the crowd, Moore began: “Wow, I really wasn’t expecting that.
“I’m just in shock right now. I’ve been doing this a long time, like over 45 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor. I’m just so humbled and so grateful.”
She then recalled: “30 years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress.
“At that time I made that mean that this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged.
“I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it – maybe I was complete, maybe I’ve done what I was supposed to do.”
