Demi Moore poses in the press room at the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday evening.
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Actress Demi Moore won the Golden Globe for best performance by an actress in a musical or comedy on Sunday evening. This win was the first ever acting award given to Moore during his storied career.
Moore, 62, won the Globe for his starring role in The bottom. In her acceptance speech, she said she thought she was done with acting until The bottom the script has arrived.
Although the film won her a historic award, Moore doesn’t view it as the high point of her career but rather the start of a new chapter, she said when the film was released in September.
“This is the beginning,” Moore said NPR’s Tonya Mosley on Fresh air. “I’ve never been where I am exactly right now. My kids are grown. I have the most independence I’ve ever had. And so it’s just this wonderful new period of exploration and of discovery… I just want to stay present where I am and be open to possibilities.
The bottom follows Moore’s character, Elisabeth Sparkle, as she takes a mysterious medication intended to transform her into a better version of herself. Moore told Mosley that she brought her own lived experience to the role.
“I don’t know if I was more perfect than anyone else, but I definitely felt like I had experience that could really be put to good use,” Moore said.
Her daughters, Scout, Tallulah and Rumer Willis, also celebrated Moore’s victory. The trio shared a video on Instagram Sunday evening in reaction to their mother’s victory.
“This is a huge win for EVERYONE,” Scout Willis commented on the post.
On Sunday night, Moore said on stage at the Golden Globes that she had been called a “popcorn actress,” a label that made her feel like she couldn’t be recognized in the industry. She ended her speech by celebrating this victory as a “marker of (her) fullness” and of the love that animates her.
“In those moments when we don’t think we’re smart enough or pretty enough, or skinny enough or successful enough, or just not enough,” Moore said. “A woman told me, ‘Just know that you will never be enough. But you can know the value of your worth if you just put the meter down.'”
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