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How ‘The Substance’ Changed the Way Demi Moore Views Aging in Hollywood · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: So Demi Moore's new sci fi thriller The Substance that
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Speaker 2: Scures Hollywood's obsession with youth and beauty is earning her
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Speaker 2: Oscar buzz, which is fitting as she actually plays a
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Speaker 2: former Oscar winning actress in the film who's grappling with
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Speaker 2: aging and makes a dangerous decision to take a DNA
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Speaker 2: drug that creates a younger clone of herself. Demi, who's
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Speaker 2: probably sixty one years old, has dealt with perceptions around
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Speaker 2: her age at Vario Sports in her career, and making
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Speaker 2: the film gave her a new perspective. She tells Variety,
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Speaker 2: the way I feel about aging is not hugely different
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Speaker 2: from before after making it, but it gave me a
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Speaker 2: greater appreciation for myself as I am. One of the
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Speaker 2: biggest themes of my career is challenging preconceived ideas and limitations.
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Speaker 2: I'm at a point where I'm writing my own story
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Speaker 2: as oppose to my story being dictated to me based
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Speaker 2: on age. Your sixties is not what your sixties used
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Speaker 2: to be. There's a part of me that's enjoying figuring
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Speaker 2: it all out as I go towards of Demi Moore.
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Speaker 2: Her new movie, The Substance, arrives later this month.
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