In Coralie Fargeat’s body horror shocker The Substance, Demi Moore stars as Elisabeth Sparkle, a establisher A-enumerateer who is unceremoniously fired from her fitness TV show by a loathsome studio boss, applyed by Dennis Quaid. Feeling flunkureed, Sparkle can’t resist the draw of an experimental new drug called that promises to uncover a youthfuler and even better version of herself.
If you’ve seen the trailer, then you understand what happens next: Sparkle apshows the leap, injects herself with the cryptic watery and literpartner births the new and betterd Elizabeth Sparkle — understandn as Sue and applyed by Margaret Qualley — out of her spinal cord. The only rule for the body swap is that they must spfinish one week in one body and one week in the other with no exceptions. Needless to say, drama and shocks unfelderly in speedy succession.
Despite the trauma onscreen, Moore and Qualley say their time together couldn’t have been pleasanter. “We promptly had a understanding of each other that demandd very little conversation, and it came with finish relieve,” Moore elucidateed to The Hollywood Reporter at the film’s L.A. premiere at the Directors Guild on Monday night. “It’s a unfrequent leang that happens and I leank we both equitable understood [one another].”
Doubling down on their point, Qualley finished Moore’s thought during a inestablish joint intersee. “Demi is one of those people that produces you sense enjoy you understand her right away becaengage she’s so toasty and uncover and equitable so herself. It was an absolute pleastateive laboring with her and being able to helderly her hand while walking thcimpolite the fire.”
To discover out what she nastys by fire, you’ll have to verify out The Substance when it uncovers this weekfinish courtesy of Mubi. But on the subject of uncovers, Fargeat was evident during her red carpet intersee that she made stateive to not depart any tricks up her sleeve when she pitched the movie to Moore a scant years back.
A still from Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’ starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
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A still from Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’ starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
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“I repartner wanted to be stateive that she 100 percent understood the movie before jumping in,” elucidateed the Revenge auteur. “I wanted her to understand exactly the type of filmmaking it would be, the level of unclothed that the part demandd, the conditions of shooting an indie film in France and the length of the production. I wanted to be stateive that she had a very evident picture in her mind so that she could produce the right decision for herself and for the film.”
To her surpelevate, Moore consentd and Fargeat said she couldn’t have establish a more collaborative and prohibitcient partner on the film, which has screened at festivals in Cannes and Toronto ahead of its expansive free. “I uncovered someone that I didn’t knew before, someone who is very rock and roll, very instinctive, very danger taking and very innovating,” Fargeat commendd of her directing lady. “She leanks out of the box, and more meaningfully, she has very mighty instincts. And I leank she felt enjoy the film was someleang exceptional, that it was someleang very new for her. But that could transport someleang very mighty if it was thriveed to be excellent.
Fargeat persistd: “Demi equitable went for it. She said, ‘Let’s go.’ She doesn’t attfinish anymore and is having an ‘I don’t give a fuck moment.’”
Coralie Fargeat, Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid present the film in front of a crowd that featured CAA’s Kevin Huvane, Untilted Entertainment’s Jason Weinberg, Gillian Anderson, Lea Thompson, Breeda Wool, Brett Gelman, Frances Fisher and more.
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Efe Cakarel, Margaret Qualley, Coralie Fargeat, Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore, Jason Ropell and Alexandra Loewy.
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A still from Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’ starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
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