Demi Moore, 61, Says She's in an 'Exciting' Phase of Her Life and Career: 'I Have the Most Independence and Autonomy'
Just like a fine wine, Demi Moore just gets better with age!
The A-lister, 61, sat down with Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie during the Monday, September 9, episode of Today where she gushed over how much she's enjoying being in her sixties and how she knows the best is yet to come in her life.
"First of all, I really try to be as present in the moment as possible," Moore, who shares daughters Rumer, 36, Scout, 32, and Tallulah, 30, with ex-husband Bruce Willis, told the news anchors. "And what I feel from that is an excitement of possibilities. That we’re defining a new, I don’t want to say a generation, but we are what the future is for women."
"I look at having my daughters, and I don’t want there to ever be in their minds that there is an end," she continued. "To me, this is the most exciting time of my life. My children are grown. I have the most independence and autonomy to really redefine where I want to go. I don’t know what that looks like or where it is, but I’m just excited to be living in it."
The G.I. Jane alum has undergone a resurgence not only in her personal life but in her career, as she's already gotten high praise for her latest film, The Substance, which focuses on something she knows a lot about — aging in Hollywood.
"It was definitely something that I knew was going to really push me out of my comfort zone, that it had a lot of challenges, not just physically — which there is a lot of that — but emotionally, the level of kind of raw vulnerability that it was going to require," she explained of working on the movie, which follows an older actress who takes a black market drug that temporarily makes her younger.
"But the message, for me, that was so powerful in this, is not what's happening in the circumstances around, but it's the violence that we have against ourselves," Moore added.
With decades in Tinseltown under her belt, Moore has come a long way from aligning her worth with her size. "I placed a lot of value on what my body looked like, as being a defining marker of whether I belonged or not, whether I could succeed or not, all of those things, which, again, is a big part of the theme in the film," the mother-of-three said.
"I think sometimes people have looked at this as really exploring the idea of what the pressures of the externals like ... at the end of the day, it's the violence of how we look in the mirror, the compare and despair that leaves us feeling so bankrupt," she concluded.