Actress flies the flag as she won her first Golden Globe award at the age of 62
Demi Moore delivered a moving acceptance speech at the 2025 Golden Globes, after winning her first award at the ceremony. The actress, 62, was visibly emotional as she received her gong for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her role in body horror movie The Substance. ‘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. And I’m just so humbled and so grateful,’ she said.
Demi – whose daughters Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 30, were seen jumping for joy as they reacted to her win – revealed how she was once described as a ‘popcorn actress’ by a producer. Her previous roles included Ghost, Indecent Proposal and Striptease. ‘I felt 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,’ she said. ‘And 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. 'And as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out of the box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance, and the universe told me that you're not done.’
Demi Moore
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In The Substance, Demi, who made her film debut in 1982’s Parasite, plays an ageing Hollywood star who embraces a secret cloning procedure to save her career. The actress thanked director Coralie Fargeat ‘for trusting me, to step in and play this woman’ and her co-star Margaret Qualley ‘for looking out for me’, as well as ‘all the people who stood by me, especially the people who believed in me when I haven’t believed in myself’. She ended her powerful speech by saying, ‘I'll just leave you with one thing: that I think this movie is imparting is in those moments when we don't think we're smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or successful enough, or basically just not 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”. 'And so today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong.’ Demi’s daughters were overjoyed with her victory. Scout said, ‘She did it. This is a huge win for everyone,’ while Tallulah remarked, ‘I love her so f***ing much, I have no words.’ Rumer added, ‘Go Mama go. So so proud of you. Omg I love you so much. So well deserved.’
Demi – who triumphed over fellow nominees Amy Adams, Cynthia Erivo, Zendaya, Karla Sofia Gascon and Mikey Madison – has previously been nominated for three Golden Globes for her performances in Ghost and If These Walls Could Talk. She has also received Emmy and SAG nods in the past.
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