Demi Moore Inspires Golden Globes with Speech About Overcoming ‘Popcorn Actress’ Label

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For the first time in her 45-year career, Demi Moore won a major film or TV award, taking home the Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for her work in “The Substance.” Despite roles in films like “Ghost,” “G.I. Jane,” and “Indecent Proposal,” the star had never won, despite two prior Globe nominations and one Primetime Emmy nod.

Finally that streak is over. And in an inspiring speech that was one of the highlights of the awards ceremony, Moore said that this win was validation that she’s no longer just a “popcorn actress” and deserves every minute of her laurels.

“I’m just so humbled and so grateful. 30 years ago I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress, and 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 and made a lot of money, but I couldn’t be acknowledged,” Moore said. “And I bought in, and I believed that. That corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago, maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I’d done what I was supposed to do.”

Seth Rogen, Catherine O'Hara during the 82nd Annual Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California.

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Moore said she was at a “low point” in her life and career until the “magical, bold, courageous, out of the box, absolutely bonkers script” for “The Substance” came to her.

“The universe told me that ‘You’re not done,'” Moore said.

Moore thanked her director Coralie Fargaet, her on-screen other-half Margaret Qualley, and people who have been with her over the last 30 years. But she also left audiences with what she felt “The Substance” communicates so intensely.

“In those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough, pretty enough, or skinny enough, or successful enough, I had a woman say to me, just know, you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick,” she said. “So today I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and the love that is driving me, and the gift of doing something that I love, and of being reminded that I do belong.”

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