said performing in Coralie Fargeat’s required accepting a “level of vulnerability and rawness” with regards to her own body on screen. Moore put it all out there for the film, a gory, campy satire on beauty standards, toxic masculinity and female self-hatred, with the movie’s frequent and prominent nudity, as well as its gruesome violence, attracting a lot of attention after its world premiere in Cannes. Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, an acclaimed actress turned celebrity host of a daytime exercise program who gets replaced by a younger, more beautiful star (Margaret Qualley), sparking a confrontation between the two women.
One of the more the more graphic scenes in the movie shows Moore and Qualley having a naked, no-holds-barred bloody fight. The Cannes audience loved it, giving the film on Sunday night. “I had someone who was a great partner,” said Moore of Qualley.
“We were obviously quite close at some moments...
and naked. But there was also a levity [in shooting those scenes].” Speaking at the press conference for , Moore said the film “pushed me out of the comfort zone” but that she was clear going in that the explicit imagery “was necessary to tell this story” and that Fargeat approached the scenes “with a lot of sensitivity” establishing a “common ground of mutual trust.
” While many drew comparisons between the film’s storyline and Moore’s own experience as an older actress in youth-obsessed Hollywood, the and star said she never s.
