Why it means so much for Demi Moore to star in The Substance
I’ve heard people say that they didn’t like The Substance because they didn’t see how an actress as conventionally beautiful as Demi Moore is at 62 could ever feel old and ugly, and……. oooh boy, do we have a lot to unpack here.
Demi’s career has definitely had its ups and downs. She’s talked a lot about how she was rarely taken very seriously as an actress even though she’s definitely had roles where she’s proven her talent.
However, the 90s marched on and turned into the 2000s and her career hit kind of a slump. It’s something that happens- roles for women in their late 30s and early 40s are much rarer than roles for women in their 20s.
BUT THEN A MIRACLE HAPPENED.
Demi Moore showed up in a bikini in Charlie’s Angels at the age of 40, and she didn’t look like a dried up old crone, which women are supposed to turn into the moment they turn 40.
I cannot emphasize enough how much of a BIG FUCKING DEAL this was. People were in AWE that she could still look like that. It did the impossible, reviving her career, and bringing about a Hollywood comeback for the ages.
But, if it was an incredible miracle that she could still be beautiful at 40, how is she supposed to look at 50? What about at 60? Where would she be if, at the age of 40, she had let her ass droop and tits sag?
So yes, it’s incredibly fitting that Demi Moore be the actress to make a movie about Hollywood ageism and how women get treated once they’re no longer young. I love it. I love her. I want to see her continue to make great movies as a woman in her 60s!
“I don’t think everyone knows what DEI includes. It includes your disabled neighbor that can only work 4 hours a day, the down sydrome bagger at Kroger that greets you with a smile everytime you come in, the autistic barista at Starbucks that always makes sure your drink is correct and can remember your daily order without a beat, it includes veterans, it includes YOUR PREGNANT FRIEND! That would have to take FMLA for bed rest or be able to have
accommodations for her job while she saves for her first baby. It’s not just about ethnicity, it’s about making sure EVERYONE has an equal opportunity to work without being discriminated”
flow winning animated feature is the kind of story that’s going to be taught like the boogeyman to every big animation studio’s intake class for decades
i keep thinking of this team and getting really emotional. maybe it’s because of the being made in blender and kinda looking like a cutscene thing but they really remind me of when tiny indie game studios win massive and Just Can’t Believe It. they came to the oscars with cufflinks of their little cat on it. they had the cat embroidered into the lining of their jackets. they posted photos of them all celebrating with their oscars at in-n-out afterwards. imagine being in an indie studio in a country that’s literally never been recognized by nomination at the oscars, picking up TWO nominations for an ANIMATED film, getting flown out, decking yourselves out in easter eggs of your little guy, going “hey we may not win but holy shit latvia’s at the goddamn oscars let’s gooooo” and then running away with the biggest mainstream animation award there is. i’d lose my fucking mind. peace and love and joy and jubilation on planet earth
“Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children.”
Absolutely damning statement. Quisling behavior. Vinchy France behavior.
That’s what we are to all these organizations (NCMEC, hospitals, The Democratic Party)
An acceptable sacrifice. I’m so tired of it. Trans people are real. We’re living, breathing people with hopes and dreams and wants and needs, not a sacrificial lamb to offer up to appease MAGA.
Especially because the MAGA beast won’t be satiated after it consumes us
I think that Americans need to show quislings like this that there’s a price for collaborating with the regime
amhrancas 