Demi Moore Denies She’s Getting Old

Posted on September 13, 2007 at 9:13 pm (PST)

Demi Moore is 44 years-old, and she still wants to be in her twenties. Who doesn’t? Demi isn’t getting the roles she wants so she’s speaking out against Hollywood. Here’s more:

"It’s been a challenging few years, being the age I am. Almost to the point where I felt like, well, they don’t know what to do with me. I am not 20. Not 30. There aren’t that many good roles for women over 40. A lot of them don’t have much substance, other than being someone’s mother or wife."

Her ex-husband and the father of her three children, 52-year-old Bruce Willis, has appeared in 13 films, including the action thriller Live Free Or Die Hard.

Miss Moore, who once commanded an estimated $12 million a film, told Red magazine she wanted to overturn the belief that juicy roles should not be given to older actresses. "If we are told we are not valuable once we hit 30, it is a problem," she said. "We all have more to give. We can’t just wait for something to happen. We have to say, ’I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more’."

I’m taking Hollywood’s side. I don’t want to see sagging breasts in sex scenes, and lifeguards on Baywatch with butts that drag in the sand. Hollywood may be the land of make-believe, but aging is real. Demi married a younger man so she could try to stay young herself, but at some point she needs to start acting her age, in real life and in the movies. The report goes on to say Demi spent over $500,000 on plastic surgery to keep herself looking young. Father time doesn’t take bribes, he takes your youth, and gives you wisdom in return. If Demi is frustrated because she can’t get parts meant for younger actresses, then I don’t feel sorry for her at all. Actors play real people on screen, and if you’re 44, then you play a 44 year-old, or at least an age that fits you. It’s true that Bruce Willis is still in action movies, which are a heck of a lot of work for a 52 year-old, but the movies don’t present Bruce as a twenty or thirty year-old action hero. In Bruce’s movies he’s his own age. Unless Demi discovers the fountain of youth, she’s either going to have to take roles meant for women her own age, or give up acting altogether.

If Demi does get a role meant for a twenty or thirty year-old I hope it’s a comedy. At least that way when people laugh, she’ll think she did a good job.