Breaking Baz: Demi Moore Says “Mind & Spirit” Are In Top Form, But Body Tells Another Story As Oscars Season Winds Down, Parties Spotlight Movies

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EXCLUSIVE: Shirley MacLaine wailed during her acceptance speech when she won her Oscar back in 1984 for Terms of Endearment, “I’m gonna cry because this show has been as long as my career!” Spare a thought for three of this year’s Best Actress nominees, Demi Moore, Karla Sofia Gascón and Mickey Madison, because for them, awards season has been running since last May when their movies, The Substance, Emilia Pérez and Anora, respectively, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. “It’s been nearly a year,” Moore tells me helpfully, when we meet at the annual Charles Finch/Chanel pre-Oscars soirée in the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Her face is a genuine picture of joy, that’s the word. “I am joyful,” she smiles. “My mind and spirit is great,” Moore continues. “But my body says, ‘F— you.'” In a phrase, Moore encapsulates a sentiment I’ve been hearing all weekend: It’ll be over by Sunday.

I’m not a man of violence, well, except when I was known as ‘The Tank’ in my rugby-playing days, but I was prepared to sock the awards consultant who ventured to say that the next awards season starts on Monday.

Which is tomorrow. Yikes! Moore has a few days off, then spends the next few months filming the second season of Landman, “then we’ll look and see what else is out there.” Her eyes light up as The Substance producer Eric Fellner comes into view. “The flowers were lovely,” she cries.