Demi Moore Is All Substance With First Golden Globe Win After 45 Years, Beats Mikey Madison Before Race to Oscars

Demi Moore has become the shining beacon of hope for Hollywood actresses with her first Golden Globe win as the protagonist of a movie that raises a lot of important questions for aging women. While she has been consistently working in the industry for a long time now, The Substance has proved that even she is a star even at 62.

This was not the first time Moore was nominated for a Golden Globe, but the last time she was nominated for one was in the late ’90s. Not only she has won the award this time but also given a powerful message through her acceptance speech.

Demi Moore has won her first Golden Globe award for The Substance

Demi Moore began her professional career as a songwriter and model before making her acting debut in 1981 with the sports drama Choices. Her career began picking up momentum when she starred in 1984’s Blame It on Rio. Then came About Last Night… in 1985 which was a success and gave everyone the impression that she can do serious roles as well.

Moore’s most successful project to date remains Ghost, a supernatural romance drama which was a huge box office success and also gained critical appreciation. By 1995, she was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood as she was paid $12.5 million for her role in Striptease, which did not do well to say the least. Instead, it marked a downturn in her career.

Last year, she starred in the body horror movie The Substance, directed by French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat. Although Fargeat lost her Golden Globe for Best Director to The Brutalist director Brady Corbet, Moore won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a musical or comedy. After taking the stage, she said (via CNN):

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.

In the movie, Moore convincingly portrayed a star named Elisabeth Sparkle, who goes to extreme lengths to regain her youth. Elisabeth takes a black-market drug that births a younger and better version of herself, portrayed by Margaret Qualley, out of her spine. The two versions keep switching in and out of the body but disrespecting the balance has a very disgusting outcome.

Demi Moore gave a strong message in her Golden Globes acceptance speech

Moore might have brought in a huge change when she became the highest-paid actress in the industry, but it took her decades to be finally recognized for her talent. Her win proves that she has still got that flair to be a star.

In her acceptance speech, she delivered a message of self-acceptance and the importance of letting go of societal or personal measures of worth.

I’ll just leave you with one thing that I think this movie is imparting. 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.’

If Moore can put down the ‘measuring stick’ and still win a prestigious award for her work, so can millions of other women who are made to feel worthless by the society’s expectations.