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Demi Moore Interview
FM: Have you ever been on a jury? DM: No. Never. I haven't. They have never called me. I registered to vote. I don1t know why but they have never been interested in me. FM: Do you have a feeling that you could have done this? DM: I think that I have that kind of opinionated way. When I really believe something I think that I can be persuasive. But not if I don't believe something. FM: What did you like about the film? DM: What I love in the film is the moment that she is trying to convince the older woman. She is talking about her child and she does have a child in danger. When she really knows what the motivating factor is, which is the children, what she is saying in a weird way is true. If they do let somebody go that we are not sure about, or if they do put somebody away that we are not sure about, then we are wrong. It is an interesting part of our justice system that, unfortunately, it doesn1t matter what is the truth or what is a lie or what is false. It is just what you can prove. FM: They said that justice did not prevail. Is that true? DM: That is what's so twisted about it. Evil did prevail because he did order the killing. But the fact is, he did not actually kill somebody. It is a very twisted thing. There is a line in "A Few Good Men" that I always loved where it says, "It's not what you know, it's what you can prove." FM: Being a woman, is this always your worst nightmare? DM: Definitely. I can't imagine anything worse than your child being in some kind of jeopardy. FM: If Hollywood were a horse race you are in the lead in terms of salary. DM: Am I? FM: That is what I keep hearing. How does that make you feel? DM: I am so much more on the inside of it that I don't think of it as an external concept. That is an outside perception of me that I am not objective to. I don't think about myself that way and I don1t speak about myself that way. I am grateful that I am getting opportunities to do work that I am interested in with people that I admire. When I am inside of it I am strictly involved with doing it and showing up and giving my hundred percent. FM: But you are a ten million dollar woman. DM: Well, if you want to get down to it, it is $12.5 but who is counting. FM: That puts you at the top of the list. DM: Yes, but it doesn't matter that it is me. The most important element is that it happened. And it happened because they believed that what I was going to contribute to the film was worth what they were offering me. It was an even exchange. It was not a great favor to me. As of the day my deal was made every woman1s salary changed. But more importantly, the perception of women1s contributions to this industry changed. And forever will be changed. And tomorrow somebody else will be paid more than me so it doesn't matter that it was me. It's nice that it was, it feels nice. I'm not going to say that I didn1t get a nice ego stroke, of course I did. It is wonderful and I worked very hard for them. FM: Does it bother you that it was for a role that they required you to take your clothes off? DM: They didn't require me, first of all. It was of my own choice and contractually of my own choice. Nor was it because I had to dance. They didn1t even ask me if I could dance. I never have done any kind of dancing professionally or otherwise. It was something of a mutual agreement. I felt to play the role, I would want to do that and do it as they do. To me that is the experience that I benefit from. FM: You did a great job stripping. DM: Is that the word? I did a great job. FM: Was it fun? DM: Yes it was. I can say that it was my best film experience to date. The people were extraordinary. The movie is not about taking your clothes off, first of all. And it is a comedy. That is the other thing I will make sure everybody knows. Not unlike the theme of this movie ("The Juror") it is about a woman fighting for the life of her child. She is fighting for the custody of her seven year old daughter from her drug addict ex-husband. FM: This new film you are working on, "G.I. Jane," I heard you compare to "Full Metal Jacket." DM: Actually it is a very important part of the film. It doesn't take place at the beginning of the film. It is not as if they go and they cut it and I start the film. Because the movie is obviously about a woman who is put through Naval Intelligence, Navy Seals training. As she gets part way through the training, she realizes that by the men's attitudes she recognized that if she doesn't really go the distance... FM: Is that why you are sporting such a short do? DM: The indication of cutting her hair is more to show that she is no different than they are. It really is just a metaphor for her passion and determination. FM: Are you concerned about how you will look? DM: I don1t think so. It is going to be so short. It is not really just for a vanity thing. It really is an important part that we are trying to convey in the story. It is an unbiased point of view of whether women should be in combat or not. We are trying to convey every body's questions and opinions without there being one side. FM: Will Bruce Willis still love you? DM: He has loved me always so I can't imagine that with no hair... I have actually had my head shaved but just not this short. FM: Is this going to be a physically demanding role? DM: We have quite a bit in the water. We have a few things that we have to do coming out of helicopters and boats. A lot of the training requires being in a pool tank with your hands bound where you can only jump to the top for air. I don1t know if we are going to portray that but they have to carry logs as a team. So there are a lot of elements that I think will be extremely difficult. FM: Did you enjoy working on the animated side of the business? Do you think you look like your character? DM: As a contemporary art doll collector, I know the concept of how faces are created. With animation the eyes are always very large with a small chin. They video you when you do your voice so I saw my expressions. You do see yourself. When you see Kevin Klein as the soldier you do actually see him but it is more in expressions. She doesn1t look exactly like me. She actually has black skin but I am so there. Even when I had taken my kids to see "Toy Story" for the tenth time and they were showing the trailer it was so odd to look and hear my voice because it didn1t even seem like me for a moment. FM: Have you not seen any of the movies portions of it yet? DM: I1ve been working this for two years. The way it works is that you go and you work alone. You do a little bit of your voice and they go and animate it. Then they decide oh, I don't like the way that sounds. So they have you maybe add a line here of whatever. It1s a nice way of working. It makes it a little bit more perfect. Isn1t that interesting. If only we could do it in the real movies. So I1ve seen a few scenes pieced together but I haven1t seen the whole film. I still have more voice to do. I'm not done. FM: It is a Disney film. Was the reason for taking the gig the kids? DM: Of course. They pay you nothing. Literally scale - nothing. I give that to charity. The only thing I said I wanted was the little molded statues which nobody knows about. But I do being a contemporary art collector. Big bucks, big score. |
