Was called ‘popcorn actress’: Demi Moore gives powerful acceptance speech at Golden Globes 2025

Demi Moore poses with the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The Substance at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, US on January 5, 2025. Reuters/Mario Anzuoni | Photo Credit: Mario Anzuoni

Actress Demi Moore won the Golden Globe for Best Female Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her performance Substance On Sunday night. He aroused a lot of enthusiasm in the ceremony with his powerful speech. “Oh wow. I really wasn’t expecting this. I’m just in shock. I’ve been doing this for a long time, like over 45 years and this is the first time I’ve won something as an actor “I’m very humbled and very grateful,” he told the crowd, according to People.

Moore, 62, who won an award for body-horror satire SubstanceSaid in her speech that 30 years ago, a producer once dismissed her as a “popcorn actress”. “At that time, I had said that this was not something that I was allowed to do, that I could do films that were successful, that made a lot of money, but I could not be accepted. And I bought into it, and I believed in it, and it bugged me over time to such an extent that I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I’d done what I wanted I should have,” she said.

“And when I was at a low point, a magical, courageous, offbeat, absolutely brilliant script came across my desk called The Substance and the universe told me you weren’t done.” He continued.

“I just want to tell you about one thing that I think this movie offers in those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough or pretty or thin or successful enough, or basically There aren’t enough,” she says. Added.

Moore said she would celebrate the award as “a symbol of my completeness”. “A woman told me, ‘Just know that you will never be enough, but if you put down the measuring stick you will know the value of what you are worth.’ And so today, I celebrate it as a symbol of my wholeness and the love that inspires me and thank you so much for the gift of doing something I love and reminding me that I belong. ,” Moore said before exiting the stage.

Substance For Moore this is his third Golden Globe nomination, but the first in several years; He was last recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in the 1990s. Evil spirit and 1996 TV movie If these walls could talk.