Why Demi Moore won't go nude again after Oscar-nominated performance in The Substance

By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-24 05:56:28 | Updated at 2025-01-24 09:50:48 4 hours ago
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She is enjoying a barnstorming resurgence following her turn as an age-obsessed fading celebrity in The Substance, for which she received her first ever Oscar nomination.

But despite wide praise for having the confidence to strip off on screen in her 60s, Demi Moore has no plans to bare her body in front of the cameras again.

The actress, 62, has been ‘flooded with scripts’ following her starring role in the grotesque comedy as directors scramble to jump on her renaissance.

But those requiring nudity may not get a look in, as insiders close to Moore are ‘doubtful’ that she will bare all again.

‘Many of the scripts coming in require her to bare her body again,’ a source told DailyMail.com exclusively. ‘But she’s not so sure if she wants to do it again. 

'Demi believes there comes a time when you need to just say no.

Demi Moore has no plans to strip off again on screen after going full frontal in The Substance

The actress, 62, has been ‘flooded with scripts’ following her starring role in the grotesque comedy, with many requiring nudity

‘If the most amazing script comes her way and there’s a nude scene, she’ll negotiate just how much she is willing to reveal.’

Moore, who has stripped off on camera before, most notably in Striptease, is ‘proud’ of her body, and despite feeling ‘vulnerable,’ she got naked in The Substance because she fully backed the production.

‘The fact is she was very brave to do it in her sixties, but it was for a project she 100 percent believed in,’ the insider continued.

‘At the same time, she felt very vulnerable. It’s doubtful she’ll do it again, despite the fact she’s really proud of her body.’

Moore played Elisabeth Sparkle, a soon-to-be washed up actress who uses a black market drug to create a younger version of herself, played by Margaret Qualley, after she is fired by her producer.

The G.I. Jane star displayed full-frontal nudity during scenes in which her character could be seen studying her naked body before taking the drug.

Moore previously described the role as a 'vulnerable experience'.  

'Going into it, it was really spelled out — the level of vulnerability and rawness that was really required to tell the story,' she told a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival last year. 

'She’s not so sure if she wants to do it again,' a source told DailyMail.com. 'Demi believes there comes a time when you need to just say no'

Moore's critically-acclaimed role landed her her first major award earlier this month when she took home the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy (pictured)

'And it was a very vulnerable experience and just required a lot of sensitivity and a lot of conversation about what we were trying to accomplish.'

Moore's critically-acclaimed role landed her her first major award earlier this month when she took home the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.

She revealed in her teary acceptance speech that she was called a 'popcorn actress' 30 years ago - a comment she said 'corroded' her to the point at which she questioned if she could even carry on in the industry.

'Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress,' she said.

'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.'

It was at that 'low point,' Moore said, that she received the 'magical, bold, courageous, out of the box [and] absolutely bonkers' script for The Substance.

She added: 'The universe told me that you're not done.'

On Thursday her efforts were recognised once more when she received her first Oscar nomination for Lead Actress, which her daughter Rumer celebrated on Instagram 

On Thursday her efforts were recognised once more when she received her first Oscar nomination for Lead Actress.

Moore, who was one of the go-to film stars in the 1990s, will compete against Cynthia Erivo, Karla Sofía Gascon, Mikey Madison, and Fernanda Torres for the gong.

Moore's daughter Rumer celebrated the Academy Award nomination on Instagram, posting a sweet throwback portrait of them. 

'OSCAR NOMINATED,' she wrote in all caps with her mother tagged. 

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