Demi Moore was adamant about what elements of her physique she didn’t need filmed for 2003’s Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.
“All I keep in mind is begging them to not shoot my butt,” Moore, 62, recalled throughout a Tuesday, Might 13, look on The Drew Barrymore Show. “I don’t know why that was my obsession.”
Moore starred as Madison Lee within the movie alongside discuss present host Drew Barrymore, and on Tuesday, the 2 gushed over their shared reminiscences on the movie, which was shot 23 years in the past. Barrymore, 50, couldn’t recover from the “phenomenon” of Moore’s bikini second.
Moore recalled having solely “three-and-a-half weeks” to arrange for her function.
“I had no time to consider what I seemed like, which was nearly higher,” she stated. “I feel I wasn’t ready for the main focus that occurred from it.”
Moore was referring particularly to her age. She turned 40 whereas they had been taking pictures the film and had taken a step again from Hollywood to lift her three daughters: Rumer, Scout and Tallulah. They had been those who satisfied her to take the Charlie’s Angels function — and rock that bikini scene.
“I had taken a break solely to be with them,” the actress stated. “I ended and was simply with them till they lastly had been like, ‘It’s important to do that film. We love the primary one. It’s important to do that film. And please, aren’t you going to ever work once more?’”
Moore stated she finally realized that she wished her daughters to know the true her.
“I additionally realized that I used to be dishonest them out of getting the complete expression of who I used to be by not working, and that that will be an essential a part of modeling the scope of life,” she continued.
Moore has been sharing tales like this all through her transformative 12 months following the discharge of her film The Substance in September 2024. The actress is coming off this 12 months’s awards circuit by which she obtained a barrage of accolades, together with a Golden Globe and SAG Award.
Whereas discussing the film — which follows an growing older actress who takes a black market drug to look youthful — Moore defined why she determined to inform such a “highly effective” message.
“I positioned plenty of worth on what my physique seemed like, as being a defining marker of whether or not I belonged or not, whether or not I may succeed or not, all of these issues,” she advised Today amid the movie’s launch. “Which, once more, is an enormous a part of the theme within the movie.”