The Substance Interview: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley & Coralie Fargeat

Writer-director Coralie Fargeat taps into something primal with her body horror movie, The Substance. "I want to let this violence go out and hopefully make a change," she told Perri Nemiroff while at the Toronto International Film Festival for her movie's North American premiere. Violence and beauty may not go hand-in-hand with a large part of society, but for people who identify as women and those who feel the weight of beauty standards, the two can often be synonymous when it comes to appearance and self-image. After all, beauty is pain, right?
In The Substance, Demi Moore, a Hollywood icon as both an actress and a standard of beauty herself, plays Elisabeth Sparkle, an A-list celebrity who's peaked. Age has rendered her useless to studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid), but a mysterious drug offers Elisabeth a second chance. It's a simple injection that allows her to live in a fresh, new, younger body -- sort of. Sue, played by Margaret Qualley, is the cloned product of the drug and an ambitious and physically stunning 20-year-old. These two personalities must share their bodies, one week at a time, or risk biological consequences, but the desire for autonomy is dangerously strong.
Fargeat, Moore, and Qualley all stopped by Collider's interview studio at the Cinema Center at MARBL to dissect and crack into their body horror feature. How did Fargeat land on this bloody and beautiful approach to the message she wanted to share? The auteur discusses wanting to purge her own self-doubts, and Moore and Qualley share how they discovered their characters through little dialogue and a lot of prosthetics, "tears, and snot." The trio explain their own struggles with these themes, as well as lessons learned throughout production and tons more.
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[@hellofriendsoftheworld]

What a talented woman they are! All of them, and the interviewer also excellent!!

[@LaraRoxx1980]

Wow, Margaret Qualley’s mom Andie MacDowell and Demi Moore were in St Elmo’s fire .. time flies

[@faaaduma6876]

Couldn’t see the resemblance. Just wow!

[@passion_proh-jects]

FUCKING BRILLIANT! The most unsettling, beautiful piece of art in YEARS! Thank you!

[@vicclein]

Film is great but did you watch Beau is Afraid?

[@Ryusevi]

Really needed this to remind myself that they are alive and that margaret isn't a horrible person like in the movie lmao the conversation around it is really much more important and I think this movie gets you talking after it's over and you start with what you've seen but what really stays is the message and you go deeper with it after you're done talking about special effects etc. at least that was my experience with it.

[@scottisokay]

great interview thanks :)

[@sandrolucic2281]

What a movie... Demi was mesmerizing!

[@faaaduma6876]

Demi and Jennifer Connolly are still rocking those silky, beautiful hair😌

[@edum.6353]

Demi moore is playing a 49-50 yo woman but shes actually 61 🤯

[@raquellennan1760]

Demi is stunning then and now

[@bluevote-b2q]

Just finished watching The Substance and WOW. It's Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Sunset Boulevard and Videodrome all rolled up into one film with the best body horror I've seen in ages, enough to make David Cronenberg, Joji Tani (Society) and John Carpenter blush.

[@markoneill2973]

The Nutty Professor meets The Fly

[@David-py6bz]

5/5 amazing 👏 film 🎥 love it

[@noellenn2122]

The noisy people in the background! Rude! 😡

[@thefaceless8796]

I can't wait to see this one. It seems like it hits on all angles.

[@thomasstevens4814]

Great interviewer!

[@tonysventure]

Her other film Revenge is great. Can’t wait to see this one.

[@KevLavigne-qp5sx]

there are now multiple videos of Moore and Qualley laughing together on the Internet💗💗

[@samueltorrez-filmmaker]

What a great movie!

[@mattymcfabb]

Incredible movie. Be brave and see it!

[@LivinNexus]

♀️My wife and I loved the film sooo much!!! 🥹

[@screenfiendnz]

Fargeat is like Alvarez, Tarantino, Cronenberg and Peter Jackson all rolled into one then put on steroids. The Substance is bat shit crazy in the best way possible, bring on a third movie

[@amangoyal923]

Nope, lol

[@misterleo3554]

Aha! This is not the original Demi Moore. It's a stand in.

[@STEPHENPASTEL]

Why not just act in films appropriate to your age, like Angela Lansbury and Molly Ringwald?

[@samueltorrez-filmmaker]

Why do it? Let's have fun!

[@marcobrca]

Demi Moore's face is really scary .that is tragedy

[@ninadekoning_]

If you comment this than you should be seeing the movie because the only tragedy is this comment

[@marcobrca]

@@ninadekoning_ moive is good .but Demi Moore did plastic surgery .which really hurted herself , she is right person to portrait the role in this movie .just hope she won't looking for happiness from outside .it is tradedy that her face can not be natural at all.that is her .

[@ninadekoning_]

@@marcobrca Demi’s face is beautiful and the fact that after seeing this movie you still feel the need to comment this means you didn’t understand it at all.

[@marcobrca]

@@ninadekoning_ If she didn't do plastic surgery ,it would be .no matter how old she is .but ,,,,,it is scary now .that won't change ,movie is movie .but Demi Moore won't live in moive .have to face reality.

[@ninadekoning_]

@@marcobrca This is exactly what the movie is about. People criticising women for getting ‘too old’, then when they try to pursue the youth our culture is so obsessed with they get punished for it as well. Demi is beautiful as she is. This is where this conversation ends. Have a good day.

[@JesusOfficialAccount]

Just watched the Substance. This woman director should be banned from this profession for life. Along with Humancentipid guy, but he was funny at least.

[@Dami603]

You didn't understand it. Film is an art form that allows us to express our inner struggle in this world. If the movie was too much for you, check out the world we created, it's even worse.

[@JesusOfficialAccount]

@@Dami603 Bro, art is like Aronofsky, what she did is just sick. 7.9 on IMDB it is crazy. I don't trust this website anymore.

[@Dami603]

@@JesusOfficialAccount Bro, do you know what is sick? TV series about serial killers.

[@larzjustice]

You should be banned from life.

[@mattymcfabb]

lol you are the same as always, Jesus. Such a prude