Demi Moore has been a searcher since she was a kid, with intense interest throughout her life in things like spiritualism, psychology and, of course, acting. Demi talks with Marc about how she never stopped searching for herself, from her difficult upbringing through her entry into Hollywood and even during the peak of her global fame, and how this journey of self-discovery dovetailed with her Oscar-nominated performance as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter 1: What challenges did Demi Moore face in her upbringing?
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Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucknicks, what's happening? I'm Marc Maron, this is my podcast, welcome to it. How's everybody doing? How are you holding up? Are you wringing your hands? Are you flipping through your phone constantly? Are you exacerbating your dread, despair and hopelessness? every two minutes by clicking on your news feed?
Are you still thinking that this is going to pass or that this is a temporary thing? What are you doing? Are you eating more? Are you exercising more? Are you laying in your bed just wondering what the point of it all is? What's going on? Where are you at with it? Are you just kind of blindly going through your day like nothing's going on? Hey, you know,
Don't knock full-scale denial in times of trauma and crisis. You know what I mean? There'll be time to peel that shit back later, right? I don't, again, I don't know how long I'm going to open these shows like this, but at some point you're going to have to accept the authoritarian dread that is going to be the foundation of our national culture. And that's just, that's where we're at.
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Chapter 2: How did Demi Moore's early life influence her career?
Thank God it's what I do for a living. Oh my God. Demi Moore. Are you kidding me? What a joy. When's the last time you watched Ghost or G.I. Jane? So many movies and you forget just how long she's been doing this and how a few good men, always good, always singular. Also, again, go see The Substance. Just do it. Put yourself through it. It's worth it. That should be a saying. Just do it.
Put yourself through it. It's worth it. Huh. Can we... T-Shirts? T-Shirts? Alright, look. This is me and Demi Moore. The Substance is still playing in theaters. I would go see it in a theater. It's also available to buy or rent digitally. And it's also streaming on MUBI. Demi is nominated for Best Actress at this year's Academy Awards. Very exciting. And it was a real treat for me to talk to her.
So this is that.
Hallo ihr Mäuse, wir sind Janni und Alina vom Podcast Wine Wednesday.
Und wir spielen am 12.6. im Kino am Olympiasee. Sagt man am Olympiasee?
Oder im Olympiasee? Nee, paddeln wir da drin rum oder was?
Oh, das wäre geil, so eine Tretbootshow. Und wir spielen am 12.6. am Kino im Olympiasee.
Im Kino am Olympiasee.
Und wir spielen am 12.06. im Kino am Olympiasee in Zusammenarbeit mit unserem Partner Backmarket eine Liveshow, unser allererstes Open Air.
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Chapter 3: What insights does Demi Moore share about her role in The Substance?
She's a great human.
Yeah, good singer too.
Yeah.
And does the whole thing. Ja, aber, weißt du...
Nein, ich denke, ich habe wahrscheinlich, ich will sagen, wir haben es gemacht, weil wir die Entscheidung gemacht haben, Bruce und ich zusammen. Wahrscheinlich das Smarteste, was wir jemals gemacht haben, war... Ja. Ja. Sorry, that's Pilaf, the little mouse. And the first time I went, my oldest daughter was 12 days old. Wow.
And so I thought...
I grew up where you went to the school closest to your house. And L.A. was a whole overwhelming, perhaps even a little bit intimidating for me as a young mother. And I just thought, what are we doing when we could be in this small town and a very different experience for them away from this big world that they're going to already get so much of.
And so we just made that decision to make the primary residence.
So you had all of them up there?
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Chapter 4: How has Demi Moore navigated fame and self-discovery?
But were they involved in the military or something?
So my dad's dad was in the army there and they had a substantial base at one point. And my mom's family had slowly kind of moved there, you know, from generations, generations before that.
Where are they from originally? So you're full southwest?
I mean, yeah, I think... It's crazy. We have, you know, some combination of some Native American, indigenous... From where? Like... Like Cherokee, that's kind of... So I'm assuming perhaps they came through Oklahoma.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
And then, so there's kind of spread of family in Texas, then into New Mexico. So I don't know exactly how my grandparents, well, probably...
Real cowboy shit.
Yeah. So that somehow I was born in the town of aliens.
Area 51.
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Chapter 5: What personal revelations does Demi Moore discuss about family?
But not your original dad?
Not my original dad. But who I didn't ever even know or figure out until I was 14.
Did you go find the other guy?
I mean, the crazy story, I think I write about this in my memoir, which is You know, I had an understanding just being a very nosy, curious kid that there was this, you know, young fireman that my mother became involved with when my dad went off to college. And the story, you know, that I bought for a long time was, you know, that they were together.
Then my dad came back from college and then she died.
Und mit ihm.
Und mit meinem Vater, mit mir verheiratet.
Ja.
Und dann hat er Charlie verlassen. Ja. Also dann, weißt du, wie diese Dinge sind, sie limitieren deinen vollen Zugang zu der Geschichte. Also ich wusste nicht wirklich, ich wusste, dass sie diesen Mann, Charlie, verheiratet hat, aber ich wusste nicht wirklich. Ja.
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Chapter 6: How does Demi Moore define her journey of self-discovery?
Oh, right.
But am I like my dad? And in many ways I was like my dad.
Like your... Like things that we were interested in.
Yeah, of course, yeah. And my dad had adopted me. He was in the room when I was born. So I never knew anybody else.
Right, right.
And so there were so many mixed emotions, but to have... A relative stranger show up who you are now connected to. Wild. I think at that time there was no one really focused on what my experience was. And so I think I felt like my job was just to handle it.
Right.
Just handle it. I did.
And did you ever have a relationship with that guy?
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Chapter 7: What is Demi Moore's perspective on mental health and trauma?
And there was alcoholism too?
Yeah, definitely. Both, you know, drugs, alcohol and mental illness.
Oh, big three.
23.
Like reassuring them. Like it's okay. Yeah.
You did that. Yeah. Because you had to be the parent. You had to be together.
I mean, I just think I felt, and again, sometimes I think, maybe it's just something we come in with.
Were you the oldest?
I'm the oldest, definitely. Don't I seem like an oldest?
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Chapter 8: How does Demi Moore reflect on her relationships and motherhood?
Yeah, real craft.
And he was quite good at it. And he worked for Scripps, Howard Scripps League. I can't remember which one is which. But anyway, they own newspapers all over. Yeah, yeah. So we had opportunities where he would get promoted, move, and promoted or... keeping ahead of that, who knows? But I learned, just know, that I learned how to load a U-Haul like nobody's business. And you did have siblings?
I have one younger brother.
Okay, so you're both kind of scrambling around.
But we, so, you know, I, we moved from New Mexico when I was five to California, which I can't remember, we did like Ontario, Merced, that kind of thing. Then we ended up in Moving back to Roswell for a few years. Then we moved to Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania, that's a long one. You drove?
We did. In that U-Haul.
That's crazy.
In that U-Haul.
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