Demi Moore reveals which of her iconic 90s roles ‘scared the crap out of me’-Asyia Iftikhar-Entertainment – Metro

Her starring role in 90s flick Ghost was not without its challenges (Picture: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

The Substance star Demi Moore shared the intense emotional reaction she had after reading the script for 1990 hit Ghost.

The 62-year-old actor secured a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Molly Jensen opposite Patrick Swayze as Sam Wheat in the supernatural romance.

When Sam is murdered by his corrupt business partner Carl Bruner (Tony Goldwyn) his spirit tracks down medium Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) to find a way to protect Molly from mortal peril.

What’s more, Whoopi won her first and only Academy Award for her starring role in this hit movie.

Over three decades later, Moore has admitted the themes of the script left her really shaken up.

‘Ghost scared the crap out of me,’ she told Hot Ones host Sean Evans.

She found it difficult to comprehend the depths of grief (Picture: Peter Sorel/Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

She revealed all in her episode of Hot Ones (Picture: First We Feast / BACKGRID)

‘To be such a young person dealing with the loss of your partner… In reading the script, I was so overwhelmed at the kind of grief that I was going to have to tap into.’

In her most memorable scene from the movie, the actor managed to conjure a tear from one eye – a moment she is remembered for to this day.

‘I know that there’s this iconic thing about the [crying out of] one eye.I didn’t plan that, I had no control over that,’ she explained.

‘That’s just how it happened. That one kind of helped me get over a hurdle of my own… Emotionally, whenever we have to be vulnerable, it is not easy.’

And the magic formula that was folded into Ghost was also present in The Substance, which drew Moore to the body-horror which became an unexpected 2024 film favourite.

‘It was holding something that was worth the risk, and I felt that way about Ghost, because it had so many genres mixed together,’ she said, adding that she knew it would either be ‘amazing or a f***ing disaster’.

She drew parallels with Ghost and The Substance (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo)

Earlier this year she spoke about the fate of the famed clay pots (Picture: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)

Earlier this year, she revealed what happened to the clay pots she made with her late co-star Patrick during one particularly steam scene in the movie that has left fans hot and bothered.

She said: ‘The claymation… I still have my little pots that I made, which are pitiful,’ she continued. They’re like the saddest looking things.’

Over the summer, Demi opened up about her difficultly navigating Hollywood in the early 00s given the public’s obsession over her body when she appeared in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, aged 40.

‘I found that there didn’t seem to be a place for me. I didn’t feel like I didn’t belong. It’s more like I felt that feeling of, I’m not 20, I’m not 30, but I wasn’t yet what they perceived as a mother,’ she said at the time.

Adding: ‘It was a time that felt, not dead, but flat.’

But her latest movie tackles this impossible standard for women head on as she plays an A-list actress who resorts to desperate measures to stay youthful after she starts losing work.

It is a gory watch, and the imagery became so graphic at points that the movie even prompted walkouts in cinemas across the UK and the US.

Metro gave The Substance three-and-a-half stars, adding that Demi’s performance was ‘vulnerable and exposing’.

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