Demi Moore Recalls Studio Executive Wanted Her and Tom Cruise to Have a Sex Scene inA Few Good Men

Mar. 15, 2025

From Left: Tom Cruise and Demi Moore in 1992’s ‘A Few Good Men’.Photo:Sidney Baldwin/Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock

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Demi Mooreis recalling howAaron Sorkinstood up for her on the set of their 1992 hit,A Few Good Men.During an interview with theLos Angeles Timeswith herThe Substancecostar, Margaret Qualley, and director, Coralie Fargeat, Moore, 61, noted that when she madeA Few Good Menwith Sorkin, 63, andTom Cruise, a studio executive requested that her and Cruise’s characters sleep together.“Well, then why did we hire Demi Moore?” the actress recalled the unnamed executive saying when Sorkin — who wrote the screenplay — denied that request.“I think that it’s how they were conditioned,” Moore told theL.A. Timesof the incident. “It was a part of the accepted conditioning — that of course that’s why they would have someone like me there.”From Left: Demi Moore and Tom Cruise on Feb. 6, 2008.JOE SCHILDHORN/Patrick McMullan via GettyInA Few Good Men, Moore plays Joanne Gallaway, an attorney in the U.S. Navy who teams up with Cruise’s Daniel Kaffee to defend two service members accused of murdering a U.S. Marine. The movie follows the pair as they take on a seemingly impossible case and expose corruption on the part of a villainous colonel (Jack Nicholson).The movie, which Sorkin adapted from his own original Broadway play of the same name, also starred Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Pollak.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“We’ve actually come an enormous distance,” Moore, who plays an actress on the wrong end of sexist attitudes from executives in her new movie, added. “It doesn’t make it okay, but we can’t hit a hammer over it. We have to move [forward]. It really starts with us.”From Left: Tom Cruise and Demi Moore in 1992’s ‘A Few Good Men’.Sidney Baldwin/Columbia/Kobal/ShutterstockSorkin previously spoke to the same incident during a 2011 writer’s roundtable discussion withTheHollywood Reporter.“There was an executive on the movie who gave me a note: ‘If Tom Cruise and Demi Moore aren’t going to sleep with each other, why is Demi Moore a woman?’ " the filmmaker said at the time. “I said the obvious answer: women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise.”

Demi Mooreis recalling howAaron Sorkinstood up for her on the set of their 1992 hit,A Few Good Men.

During an interview with theLos Angeles Timeswith herThe Substancecostar, Margaret Qualley, and director, Coralie Fargeat, Moore, 61, noted that when she madeA Few Good Menwith Sorkin, 63, andTom Cruise, a studio executive requested that her and Cruise’s characters sleep together.

“Well, then why did we hire Demi Moore?” the actress recalled the unnamed executive saying when Sorkin — who wrote the screenplay — denied that request.

“I think that it’s how they were conditioned,” Moore told theL.A. Timesof the incident. “It was a part of the accepted conditioning — that of course that’s why they would have someone like me there.”

From Left: Demi Moore and Tom Cruise on Feb. 6, 2008.JOE SCHILDHORN/Patrick McMullan via Getty

Demi Moore and Tom Cruise attend GUCCI and MADONNA host A NIGHT TO BENEFIT RAISING MALAWI AND UNICEF at the United Nations on February 6, 2008 in New York City.

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InA Few Good Men, Moore plays Joanne Gallaway, an attorney in the U.S. Navy who teams up with Cruise’s Daniel Kaffee to defend two service members accused of murdering a U.S. Marine. The movie follows the pair as they take on a seemingly impossible case and expose corruption on the part of a villainous colonel (Jack Nicholson).

The movie, which Sorkin adapted from his own original Broadway play of the same name, also starred Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Pollak.

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

“We’ve actually come an enormous distance,” Moore, who plays an actress on the wrong end of sexist attitudes from executives in her new movie, added. “It doesn’t make it okay, but we can’t hit a hammer over it. We have to move [forward]. It really starts with us.”

From Left: Tom Cruise and Demi Moore in 1992’s ‘A Few Good Men’.Sidney Baldwin/Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock

Tom Cruise, Demi Moore A Few Good Men - 1992

Sorkin previously spoke to the same incident during a 2011 writer’s roundtable discussion withTheHollywood Reporter.

“There was an executive on the movie who gave me a note: ‘If Tom Cruise and Demi Moore aren’t going to sleep with each other, why is Demi Moore a woman?’ " the filmmaker said at the time. “I said the obvious answer: women have purposes other than to sleep with Tom Cruise.”

source: people.com