Demi Moore and Amy Adams Embrace ‘The Substance’ Body Horror and Women Who Get Angry: Society Has Us Believe ‘That’s Not Attractive’

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Demi Moore tells Amy Adams that “there is such incredible diversity” in Adams’ choice of roles, Adams learns just how difficult it is to avoid accidentally quoting from one of Moore’s beloved past films. “I realized what I almost said to you, and then I was really embarrassed,” Adams says. “I almost said, ‘Ditto.’” “Ditto,” of course, is a citation from 1990’s “Ghost” — a code word for the enduring love between Moore’s Molly and Patrick Swayze’s Sam after Sam is murdered. “I cried harder in ‘Ghost’ than I had cried in any movie up to that point in my life,” Adams adds. “You can say ditto!” Moore says.

Their films this year similarly go to great pains — literally! — to tell confrontational, feminist stories about women’s rage.

In “Nightbitch,” directed by Marielle Heller, Adams’ character, Mother, faces each day of loving tedium at home with her toddler, Son, and then may or may not begin transforming into a dog.

In “The Substance,” directed by Coralie Fargeat, Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore) is an actress on the wrong side of 50 who takes extreme measures to preserve her youth — as in, after injecting the mysterious titular drug, she births the body of Sue (Margaret Qualley), a perfect younger version of herself.