Demi Moore Implies That the Producer Who Called Her 'a Popcorn Actress' Is Dead: He's 'Rolling Over in His Grave'

Mar. 15, 2025

Demi Mooreis dropping a clue about the unnamed producer who called her “a popcorn actress.”

“What somebody else does or doesn’t do is irrelevant. How you hold it is everything,” she began. “And while I may have taken it as he intended it, it’s what I made it mean about me. It’s that I made it mean that somehow I wasn’t ever going to be somebody that could be acknowledged in that kind of arena or platform, that I couldn’t win awards… But he didn’t do that. He just said the words. So that’s the difference.”

When Kimmel asked Moore whether she thought the unnamed producer heard her speech, she said, “He may have been rolling over in his grave.”

Demi Moore on Jan. 5, 2025.Penske Media via Getty

Penske Media via Getty

Moore captivated the Golden Globes' audience with her speech following her win forThe Substance, a body-horror satire for which she has also been nominated for at theCritics Choice Awardson Feb. 7,SAG Awardson Feb. 23 and theAcademy Awardson March 2.

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“Oh wow. I really wasn’t expecting that. I’m just in shock right now. I’ve been doing this a long time, like over 45 years and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor," she said during that speech. After Moore mentioned the “popcorn actress” anecdote, she shared that she “bought in and I believed that” about herself for several years.

Demi Moore.Real Simple / Getty

Real Simple / Getty

“That corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete,” she added in her Globes speech. “Maybe I’ve done what I was supposed to do.”

source: people.com