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Demi Moore and Amy Adams Embrace ‘The Substance’ Body Horror and Women Who Get Angry: Society Has Us Believe ‘That’s Not Attractive’
"The Substance" star Demi Moore joins forces with "Nightbitch" actor Amy Adams to unpack female rage for Variety's "Actors on Actors" series.
In “Nightbitch,” directed by Marielle Heller, Adams’ character, Mother, faces each day of loving tedium at home with her toddler, Son, and then may or may not begin transforming into a dog. In “The Substance,” directed by Coralie Fargeat, Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore) is an actress on the wrong side of 50 who takes extreme measures to preserve her youth — as in, after injecting the mysterious titular drug, she births the body of Sue (Margaret Qualley), a perfect younger version of herself. So much of what went into the relationship with the boy was developed not only by me, but by Marielle Heller and Scoot McNairy [who plays Husband] and the entire crew, because we had to create an environment that didn’t happen just between action and cut.
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