A top Hollywood director has criticized Golden Globe winner Demi Moore for her behavior on the set of his film.
Adrian Lyne, who directed the 1993 hit Indecent Proposal, told the story. Manhattan screening audience Moore, 62, was “strange.”
“There’s no way we’re going to get through this,” Lyne admitted, he thought as the filming processed.
But he said he had to put the conflict out of his mind and “think about the weather, think about what would make me laugh.”
Lyne, 83, made his comments at a screening of his 1990 film Jacob’s Ladder at the Roxy Cinema in downtown Manhattan in November.
He teased the audience. “I’m not going to say who the actress was,” he said. “Except it was Demi Moore!
Demi Moore, 62, won the Golden Globe on Sunday for Best Female Actor in a Comedy or Musical for her comeback film The Substance
Adrian Lyne directed Moore, 62, in Indecent Proposal. He revealed their heated on-set confrontations during a screening and branded her ‘queer’
Lyne recounted a moment during filming where he told Moore that he didn’t like her and she didn’t like him, but that they had to “get through this.”
‘I remember sitting down with her and saying, ‘Listen, you don’t like me and I don’t like you, but we have to get through this part!’
“And then it kind of worked!” It actually worked out.”
Moore had never won a major acting award before taking home the Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy on Sunday for the film The Substance. She was a firm favorite for her performance as a fading actress who takes a black market pill to make herself look younger
Critics called it the best performance of her career.
While Moore has previously never discussed the specific clash with the Englishman Lyne.
But she did outline her discomfort with him in Indecent Proposal, in which she co-starred with Woody Harrelson.
Moore co-starred with Woody Harrelson in Indecent Proposal. The film was hugely controversial due to its raunchy sex scenes, but was a box office success
Moore wrote in her memoir that filming Indecent Proposal was a “slog” and how “creepy” her experience was filming sex scenes on set.
Moore said Lyne wouldn’t stop talking during the film’s sex scene, claiming he was “F–king raunchy!” Oh God, it drove me crazy!’
It told the story of a married couple who, after losing the big time gambling in Las Vegas, accepted the offer of a billionaire – played by Robert Redford – who promised them $1 million if he could sleep with Moore’s character Diana.
Moore argued with Lyne over a range of issues, including the filming of sex scenes and her weight. Moore recalled in her memoir Inside Out that Lyne told her, “You lost a lot of weight” between the time she was cast and being fitted for the film.
“At first I took that as a compliment and explained that I didn’t want to feel self-conscious in all the love scenes coming up, so I had been working hard on my body,” Moore wrote.
‘I don’t think he listened to a word I said. He kept looking at me with a disturbed expression on his face.
“Finally he spat, ‘I don’t want you to look like a goddamn king!’ My head was spinning when I left his office.’
Moore added: “Reluctantly, Adrian withdrew.”
But the weight problems caused by Lyne’s reaction to Moore’s fitness regime continued to affect her during filming.
“The look on his face every time he saw me in sneakers or on a bike was disapproving, bordering on disgust, and no matter how hard I pushed back, it started to get to me,” she reflected in her memoir.
‘By the time we finished the film, he had managed to get into my head – to the point that I had gained all the weight he had expected from me in the beginning.
“It made me feel almost unbearably uncomfortable,” she said.
Moore also wrote that filming Indecent Proposal was a “slog” and described her “creepy” experience filming sex scenes on set: “I knew Glenn Close, and she warned me that Adrian was a strange guy to work with of love scenes… Adrian is a real voyeur, which is one of the reasons why his films are so interesting and powerful.
Moore became the highest-paid actress in film history when she was paid $12.5 million for starring in Striptease, but was nicknamed ‘Gimme Moore’ for her extravagant demands on set
‘But on set it’s really crazy: he literally wouldn’t stop talking, almost shouting! the whole time we were filming the sex scenes. “F*****g vulgar! Oh God, I’m sorry for that!,” he shouted.
“Come on, get his dick!” It was creepy at first: here was a guy with a kind of long-haired British rocker look, all sweaty and excited, screaming about b***rs.
‘But once I got used to it, I saw the benefits: Adrian going on like this took the focus off my own clumsiness, because he was so exaggerated… I knew not to make fun of his outbursts .’
Ultimately, the pair reached a compromise on filming the sex scenes, agreeing that “he would be free to shoot the sex scenes however he wanted, but ultimately I could watch the footage and if there was anything I thought it was too much’. invasive or unnecessary, he would cut it off’.
But she concluded: ‘No matter how crazy Adrian and I have made each other, I have to say that I have never been photographed so beautifully.’
Lyne admitted during his talk at the Roxy Cinema that he found it ‘difficult’ filming sex scenes.
Lyne admitted during his talk at the Roxy Cinema that he found it “difficult” filming sex scenes, despite Moore’s description of his alleged behavior on set during filming.
Before she got the chance to star in The Substance, Moore believed her career was drying up and her awards ceremony reflected a time when a director called her a “popcorn actress.”
He said: ‘I always find it difficult to isolate sex and what infuriates me – and I get a lot of it – is when they talk about sex as dirty, this word ‘smut’ endlessly… I’m just trying to make it real, real and fun.
‘I think in a sexuality scene you always have a place where you can laugh with them. Because if you don’t have that, people tend to be embarrassed and laugh, and then you’re dead.”
Indecent Proposal was a huge box office success, grossing over $250 million worldwide and, following Moore’s other leading roles in Ghost and A Few Good Men, cemented her status as one of Hollywood’s premier leading ladies of the 1990s.
The film – and its controversial premise – divided critics upon its release. Some praised the sordid nature of the storyline, while others decried it for its “sexist” portrayal of women.
Rolling stone described the film as ‘sexist propaganda’ and labeled it a ‘bonbon laced with malice’, while the feminist author Betty Friedan dismissed the film’s plot – insisting that it would teach 13-year-old girls not to “put in any effort” with their homework and instead simply “diet enough to become anorexic, buy some silicone and act on it.” search “lonely billionaire,” according to the LA Times.
Yet Moore, then married to Bruce Willis, gave a telling defense of the film Vanity fair about the film’s controversial plot.
Moore and her The Substance co-star Margaret Qualley spoke onstage at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on Sunday
Moore was married to second husband Bruce Willis at the time she made an indecent proposal. She defended the film’s rawness while claiming it was “sexist.”
She said: ‘I never felt it denigrated… her body was to me the least important sacrifice she made compared to the potential loss of her marriage, something she valued more than anything.’
In 1996, she became the highest-paid actress in film history when she was paid $12.5 million for starring in Striptease. But Moore was also nicknamed ‘Gimme Moore’ for her extravagant demands on set.
In Moore’s awards ceremony speech on Sunday, she revealed that before landing her role in The Substance, she feared her Hollywood career might be over.
During her speech, she shared a memory from thirty years ago, when a director called her a “popcorn actress,” saying, “…that has affected me over time, to the point where a few years ago I thought it was maybe this was it. Maybe I was complete. Maybe I would. I had done what I had to do.
“And when I was at a low point, this magical, daring, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely crazy script came across my desk called The Substance. And the universe told me you’re not ready yet.”
She concluded her speech by saying that she was celebrating this as a sign of my wholeness and of the love that drives me, and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I belong.
Moore said in her acceptance speech on Sunday that when she got the role in The Substance, it was “the universe” telling her she wasn’t done with her career.
In contrast to Moore’s hot streak, Lyne has only made one film in the last twenty years: 2022’s Deep Water, starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.
He admitted during his talk at the Roxy Cinema that he had mixed feelings about filmmaking.
Lyne said: ‘I despise the process of filmmaking. I just think it’s terrible. The whole thing makes people scared: the bell rings, the clapperboard and someone shouting for silence. By then everyone will be scared.”
But he added that he still hoped he could shoot a new film titled One Neck – a serial killer thriller set in the wealthy Long Island enclave of the Hamptons.