This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Dimey Moore was one of the biggest stars of the 80s and 90s.

And for a time, she was the highest paid actress in Hollywood.

And since she reemerged as a lead in the 2024 film, The Substance, Demi Moore, has been very busy.

She's got a major role in the new season of Taylor Sheridan's Landman.

And she stars in two widely anticipated films that are coming out this year.

First, there's a science fiction film directed by Boots Riley, and then there's strange

arrivals, where she plays a role alongside Coleman Domingo, and it's about a couple who claim

to have been abducted by aliens.

Sounds pretty good.

Demi Moore's memoir, Inside Out, came out a few years ago,

and this fall at the New Yorker Festival, she sat down and talked with staff writer,

Gia Tolentino.

You had quite young parents. You moved around a ton. You were required to grow up very quickly.

And you write in the memoir that all the adapting that you had to do as you moved from place to place was part of perhaps early training to become an actor.

Can you just talk about that? Yeah. I mean, so I was in roughly never less than two schools a year.

So we were always moving and I became quite excellent at loading a U-Ha. I mean, so I was in roughly never less than two schools a year.

So we were always moving and I became quite excellent at loading a U-Haul.

But one of the things when you don't know any different is that you, there's two aspects to that.

Yes, I became very adaptable to being in a new environment, new schools, new friends.

And on the plus side, I also learned kind of the positive side of not clinging to attachment.

And, you know, the downside of that is that it made it harder to know how to really nurture friendships.

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