Demi Moore is reflecting on her career after starring in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle alongside Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu.
“What’s interesting is I felt [criticism] more when I hit my 40s. I had done Charlie’s Angels, and there was a lot of conversation around this scene in a bikini, and it was all very heightened, a lot of talk about how I looked,” Moore told Michelle Yeoh for Interview magazine. “And then I found that there didn’t seem to be a place for me. I didn’t feel like I didn’t belong. It’s more like I felt that feeling of, I’m not 20, I’m not 30, but I wasn’t yet what they perceived as a mother.”
After starring as Madison Lee in the 2003 Charlie’s Angels sequel, Moore questioned her place in Hollywood.
“Where do I fit in? It was a time that felt, not dead, but flat,” Moore said. “I don’t know if I’ve ever done that when I’ve come up against something that I don’t understand exists as a limitation.”
She continued, “There was a moment, I have to say, where I started to wonder, is this really what I should be doing? Maybe that part of my life is complete. Not even over, but complete. Then I realized, if I’m questioning it, then I need to inject it with energy so that I know for sure.”
McG directed the action comedy, and Moore played the film’s villain, a former angel who became an independent operative.
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