From Striptease to Oscar favorite: Demi Moore caps Hollywood comeback with Academy Award nomination

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Not only for me but for what this film represents.” Moore’s performance as a fading celebrity seeking to return to her youth by any means in Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance has earned her the best reviews of her career, but there’s no way she was thinking “Oscar bait” when she first read the script for the gory, provocative body horror. “Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a ‘popcorn actress,’” Moore recalled when she accepted a Golden Globe, the first major honor of her career, earlier this month. And I bought in and I believed that.” Moore, who grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, was catapulted to fame first as a soap star on General Hospital in 1982 and then in a string of films alongside the 1980s “Brat Pack,” including St Elmo’s Fire and About Last Night., opposite Rob Lowe. Demi Moore won the Golden Globe for Best Female Actor for ‘The Substance’ For all her success, she was haunted by the “popcorn actress” tag that, as she said at the Globes, “corroded me over time.” She was a pop culture phenomenon, married to fellow box office star Bruce Willis and appearing on a much-discussed cover of Vanity Fair in 1991 while nude and seven months pregnant, but she had come to believe she’d never be truly accepted or venerated for her craft.