Demi Moore Reveals Her Daughters Haven't Seen Her inThe SubstanceYet — 'But They're Super Excited' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Tallulah Willis, Scout Willis, Demi Moore and rumer Willis on March 10, 2024.Photo:Matt Winkelmeyer/VF24/WireImage

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Demi Mooreis eagerly anticipating her daughters' reactions to her provocative new film.

While speaking with PEOPLE at the 2024Toronto International Film FestivalaboutThe Substance, Moore, 61, says her three daughters —Rumer, 36,Scout, 33, andTallulah, 30 — have not yet seen her body horror satire co-starringMargaret Qualley.

“I thought about setting it up for them to see it, but then decided to wait,” Moore says. “They can see it with the big audience at the premiere — it would be more exciting and more fun. I mean, they’ve seen the trailers, but they are super excited.”

Demi Moore in The Substance.Courtesy of MUBI

Courtesy of MUBI

The movie tackles prominent issues related to body image, society’s expectations on women and aging — all of which Moore says she and her daughters have spoken about over the years. “They of course have heard me say this before,” she says. “I think looking at the circumstances, which is creating this kind of societal conditioning of women’s value, basically fading as they age is kind of our setup.”

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Moore shares her daughters with ex-husbandBruce Willis. All three of her chilren have followed her and Willis' footsteps into acting to various degrees. In the past, Rumer has spoken aboutstruggling with her body image and shaming, a pertinent theme inThe Substance.

“We spoke with somebody yesterday [who] literally said that after the movie, she went and cried in the bathroom because there’s so many points of her own fears which is touched on, but in a way that left her not in despair, but in a state of more hopefulness and just reframing how she was told we look,” Moore tells PEOPLE of audiences' reactions to the movie in Toronto.

The Substanceis in theaters Sept. 20.

source: people.com