Yahoo Lifestyle Demi Moore Continues Her Inspirational Speech Streak With Critics Choice Win: “Dreams Do Come True”
The Substance star Demi Moore kept her inspirational acceptance speech rally going Friday night with another Best Actress win for the Mubi movie at the Critics Choice Awards to go with her Golden Globes trophy.
“This has been such a wild ride, I can’t tell you when I started this journey on this film, I could never imagine being here,: she said onstage tonight at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. “It’s so far beyond what I hoped for.”
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She praised the Critics Choice Association for recognizing “what this film is about, what it’s trying to convey. … Your acknowledgement is the elixir, it’s the healing bomb to the issues that the film brings forward.”
While Moore didn’t have as much time in her acceptance speech as she did at the Globes, she punctuated the end of her time at the mic with, “For anybody out there who is still on their journey, who is still struggling to find their way, because it hasn’t happened, it doesn’t mean it’s not happening, dreams do come true.”
During the Globes when she took home Best Actress – Drama, the former Ghost thespian said, “Thirty years ago I had a producer tell me I was a popcorn actress and at that time I made that mean that I wasn’t allowed to have this, that I could do movies that were successful and made a lot of money but that I wouldn’t be acknowledged and I bought in and I believed that.
She continued then, “In those moments when we don’t think we are smart enough or pretty enough, or skinny enough or successful enough or basically just not enough, I had a woman say to me just know you will never be enough, but you can know the measure of your work if you just put down the measuring stick. I treat this as a marker that I do belong.”
The Substance writer-director Coralie Fargeat also won for Original Screenplay tonight at the Critics Choice, and picked up a trophy for Hair and Makeup, helping it tie with Emilia Pérez and Wicked for the most wins overall on the film side.
The Mubi movie repped the streamer first big splash with a wide release. The Substance premiered at Cannes where it received an 13-minute standing ovation and won Best Screenplay for Fargeat. The film has grossed close to $77 million worldwide.
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