Hi there, it's Lulu Garcia Navarro. This week, we're going to be re-airing an interview I loved

from last year, a conversation with Demi Moore. When we talked, Moore's movie The Substance

was just about to open in theaters. At the time, I noted that she was already getting awards

buzz for her performance. And just this week, she received her first ever Oscar nomination for best actress for that film,

making it a great time to revisit this conversation.

Don't worry, we'll have a new episode next week, but for now, enjoy my interview with Demi Moore.

From the New York Times, this is The interview. I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro.

It is hard to describe Demi Moore's new movie, The Substance. On the one hand, it's a dark comedy

about the horrors of getting older as a woman in Hollywood, but it's also a literal body horror film.

The basic premise is that Moore's character takes this strange elixir that allows her to create

a younger, more perfect version of herself. And you can see that creation in bloody, visceral detail.

It's a movie that challenges us to look at what drives our celebrity-obsessed culture

and the damage it does to our female stars. Moore is already getting awards buzz for it. And even though,

I'll confess, I was kind of grossed out watching it, I also couldn't look away. I've been

mesmerized by Demi Moore my whole life. One of her first

big films, St. Elmo's Fire in 1985, made me want to go to where it was partially set,

Georgetown University, which I eventually did. Ghost, with that famous scene of her making pottery

with Patrick Swayze, made me want to live in a New York loft. That, alas, never happened.

Her later films, like A Few Good Men, G.I. Jane, indecent proposal, were basically the metronome of my younger life.

Along the way, I grew to admire her chutzpah as she became the highest paid actress in Hollywood,

as well as an early advocate of pay equity more broadly,

long before the issue was part of the national discourse.

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