During the filming of “The Substance,” a horror movie directed by Coralie Fargeat, Demi Moore spoke in regards to the excessive depth of her work.
The actress who performs Elisabeth within the upcoming movie was identified with shingles whereas on a week-long break from filming.
Moore informed the L.A Times, as quoted by the Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday (3/9) native time, that “To give you an idea of how intense it was, the first week I had a complete break and I got shingles, and that was when Margaret was the only one working. And then I lost about 20 pounds.”
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shingles is a painful, contagious rash that may be unfold when the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes chickenpox, reactivates within the physique after they’ve beforehand had chickenpox.
Her co-star Margaret Qualley, who performs Sue, additionally confronted her personal challenges throughout manufacturing given the gravity of the movie.
“Oh, yeah, I had terrible acne for a long time,” she mentioned.
However, each stars knew Fargeat would push them to new heights with their roles in “The Substance,” and so they every embraced it absolutely.
Demi Moore mentioned that “it’s important to go away feeling such as you’ve put all of it on the desk. And that’s what it’s important to do and that’s what you need to carry to it.”
The movie follows the director’s 2017 debut “Revenge,” which adopted a fading celeb who turns to a drug, a cell-replicating substance that quickly creates a youthful, higher model of herself.
“The most violent thing is what she does to herself,” Moore mentioned of “The Substance,” which hits theaters Sept. 20.
“[The script] takes something that is a very internalized violence against ourselves and externalizes it in a way that allows the audience to have a little bit of objectivity and then really see what we do to ourselves through that constant, harsh critique and comparison,” she mentioned.
Fargeat additionally mentioned that “I read a tagline in an article about the film recently that said ‘Being a woman is body horror.’ It’s a horror film that can be scary in many ways, but the first thing is it’s about playing with the violence of what we do to our bodies.”
