Demi Moore’s “heartfelt” Golden Globes speech is inspiring people online

nme.com:

The Substance star Demi Moore’s emotional acceptance speech at this year’s Golden Globes has drawn praise from viewers online, who have called it “heartfelt” and “inspiring”.Moore won Best Female Actor In A Film — Musical or Comedy for her performance as a fading celebrity who turns to a black market drug known as The Substance in order to produce a young version of herself.Stepping on to the podium, she began “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”.

She then explained her journey to this point, recalling that “30 years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a “popcorn actress” and, at that time, I made that mean that this (award) wasn’t something that I was allowed to have.

That I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged, and I bought in and I believed that”“And that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought, a few years ago, that maybe this was it.

Maybe I was complete. Maybe I would—I’d done what I was supposed to do. As I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance.