Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival, Demi Moore has reflected on how the movie industry’s treatment of women has or hasn’t changed in recent years – concluding that although there has been “significant” progress, the work is far from done.
The Hollywood icon is one of this year’s jury members at the annual extravaganza, alongside the likes of Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård, Ruth Negga, Laura Wandel, Diego Céspedes, Isaach De Bankolé, Paul Laverty and jury president Park Chan-wook.
Speaking at a press conference to mark the festival’s opening, Moore was asked if “from your personal experience, has Hollywood really changed?”; to which she responded: “I think the change has happened significantly but I don’t know if that means we’ve gotten there yet. I think it’s still a work in progress.”
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After starting to elaborate but then stopping herself, she joked: “There’s more I can say!” With laughter and a knowing look, she added: “But we’ll just leave it at that.”
Earlier in the conference, she had been asked by another journalist about Hollywood’s relationship to – and battle with – AI.
“Well, that’s a big question. I think the reality is that to resist… I always feel that againstness breeds againstness,” she said.
“AI is here. And so to fight it is to, in a sense, to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. So to find ways in which we can work with it… I think is a more valuable path to take.”
On whether “we are doing enough to protect” human artistry, she mused: “I don’t know. I don’t know the answer to that, and so my inclination would be to say probably not.
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“There’s beautiful aspects of being able to utilize it, but the truth is, there really isn’t anything to fear because what [AI] can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical. It comes from the soul.
“It comes from the spirit of each and every one of us sitting here, to each and every one of us that creates every day, and that they can never re-create through something that’s technical.”
Cannes Film Festival runs until 23 May. Moore herself, who won huge acclaim in 2024 for The Substance, will next be seen in thriller film Tyrant alongside Charlize Theron, Julia Garner, Paapa Essiedu and Heated Rivalry‘s Hudson Williams.
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Shaun is an Evening News Editor at Digital Spy, with over a decade of experience reporting on all things pop culture. He has written for outlets including Metro, Attitude, Huffington Post, The Mirror, Yahoo!, Pink News and Express Online; specialising in TV, movies, soaps, music and LGBTQ+ issues. He is also a BAFTA Rocliffe-winning scriptwriter, having written episodes of the soap Hollyoaks, the official Steps musical Here & Now and multiple Offie Award-nominated plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia, and will happily talk at length about Desperate Housewives to anyone who’ll listen.
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