A top Hollywood director has slammed Golden Globe winner Demi Moore for her behavior on the set of his movie.
Adrian Lyne, who directed the 1993 hit Indecent Proposal, told. Manhattan screening audience Moore, 62, was ‘strange’.
‘There is no way on God’s earth that we going to get through with this,’ Lyne admitted he thought as filming processed.
But he said he had to put the conflict out of his mind and ‘think about the weather, think about what would make me laugh.’
Lyne, 83, made his comments during a screening of his 1990 movie Jacob’s Ladder at the Roxy Cinema in downtown Manhattan in November.
He teased the audience. ”I’m not going to say who the actress was,’ he said. ‘Except that it was Demi Moore!
Demi Moore, 62, won the Golden Globe for Best Female Actor in a Comedy or Musical for her comeback movie The Substance on Sunday
Adrian Lyne directed Moore, 62, in Indecent Proposal. He disclosed at a screening their heated confrontations on set and blasted her as ‘strange’
Lyne recounted a moment during filming where he told Moore he didn’t like her and she didn’t like him but they had to ‘get through this piece of s**t’
‘I remember I sat down with her and I said, “Listen, you don’t like me and I don’t like you but we’ve gotta get through this piece of s**t!”
‘And after that it sort of worked! It sort out of worked out, really.’
Moore had never won a major acting award before Sunday when she went home with the Globe for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for the movie The Substance. She was hot favorite for her performance as a fading actress who takes a black market pill to make herself look younger
Critics dubbed it as being the finest performance of her career.
While Moore has previously never addressed the specific clash with Englishman Lyne.
But she did outline her discomfort with him on Indecent Proposal – in which she starred alongside Woody Harrelson.
Moore starred in Indecent Proposal alongside Woody Harrelson. The movie was wildly controversial because of its raunchy sex scenes, but was a box office success
Moore wrote in her memoir that filming Indecent Proposal was a ‘slog’ and how ‘creepy’ her experience was filming sex scenes on the set
Moore said Lyne wouldn’t stop talking during the movie’s sex scene and alleged he shouted ‘F—king raunchy! Oh God, got a b***r on that!’
It told the story of a married couple, who after losing big gambling in Las Vegas, accept the offer of a billionaire – played by Robert Redford – who promised them $1 million if he can sleep with Moore’s character Diana.
Moore argued with Lyne over a range of issues including his filming of sex scenes and her weight. Moore recalled in her memoir Inside Out that Lyne had said to her ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight’ in between the time she was cast and the fitting for the film.
‘Initially, I took that as a compliment, and I explained that I didn’t want to feel self-conscious in all the love scenes coming up, so I’d been working hard on my body,’ Moore wrote.
‘I don’t think he listened to a word I was saying. He just kept looking at me with a disturbed expression on his face.
‘Finally he spat, “I don’t want you looking like a f**king man!” My head was spinning when I left his office.’
Moore added, ‘Very reluctantly, Adrian backed down.’
But the weight issues caused by Lyne’s response to Moore’s fitness regime continued to affect her during filming.
‘The look on his face every time he saw me in sneakers or on a bike was disapproving, bordering on disgusted, and as much as I pushed back, it began to get to me,’ she reflected in her memoir.
‘By the time we finished the movie, he had succeeded in getting inside my head – to the point that I had put on all the weight he had wanted me to gain at the beginning.
‘I was almost unbearably uncomfortable about it,’ sshe said.
Moore also wrote that filming Indecent Proposal was a ‘slog’ and described her ‘creepy’ experience filming sex scenes on the set: ‘I knew Glenn Close, and she warned me that Adrian was an odd guy to work with on love scenes… Adrian is a true voyeur, which is part of why his films are so interesting and potent.
Moore became the highest-paid actress in film history when she received $12.5million to star in Striptease, but was nicknamed ‘Gimme Moore’ for her extravagant on-set demands
‘But on set it’s very kooky: he literally didn’t stop talking – practically hollering! the whole time we were shooting the sex scenes. “F*****g raunchy! Oh God, got a b***r on that!,” he’d yell.
‘”Come on, grab his d**k!” At first it was creepy: here was this guy with this sort of long-haired British-rocker look, getting all sweaty and worked up, yelling about b***rs.
‘But once I got used to it, I saw its advantages: having Adrian carry on that way took the focus of my own awkwardness because he was so over the top…I knew not to take his outbursts at face value.’
Ultimately, the pair reached a compromise on the filming of the sex scenes, agreeing that ‘he would be free to shoot the sex scenes, however he wanted, but in the end I could review the footage and if there was anything I felt was too invasive or gratuitous, he would cut it’.
But she concluded: ‘As crazy as Adrian and I made each other, I have to say that I’ve never been shot more beautifully.’
Lyne admitted during his talk at the Roxy Cinema that he has found it ‘difficult’ filming sex scenes.
Lyne admitted during his talk at the Roxy Cinema that he has found it ‘difficult’ filming sex scenes, despite Moore’s description of his alleged on-set behavior during filming
Before she was given the opportunity to star in The Substance, Moore believed her career was running dry and reflected in her award acceptance speech a time when a director called her a ‘popcorn actress’
He said: ‘I always find it difficult to isolate the sex and what enrages me – and I get a lot of it – is when they talk about sex being smut, this word ‘smut’ endlessly… I just try to make it real, really and fun.
‘With a scene of sexuality, you always have a place I think where you can laugh with them. Because if you don’t have that in, people tend to get embarrassed and they’ll laugh at the scene, and then you’re dead.’
Indecent Proposal was a huge box office success grossing over $250million worldwide and, following on from Moore’s other starring roles in Ghost and A Few Good Men, reinforced her status as one of 1990s Hollywood’s foremost leading ladies.
The movie – and its controversial premise – divided critics upon its release. Some praised the sordid nature of the storyline while others slammed it for its ‘sexist’ portrayal of women.
Rolling Stone described the movie as ‘sexist propaganda’, branding it a ‘bonbon spiked with malice’, while feminist author Betty Friedan blasted the plot of the movie – insisting that it was going to teach 13-year-old girls that they ‘don’t need to bother’ with their homework and instead simply ‘diet enough to be anorexic, get some silicone and look for that lonely billionaire’, according to the LA Times.
Yet Moore, who was married to Bruce Willis at the time, defended the film, telling Vanity Fair about the movie’s controversial plot.
Moore and her The Substance co-star Margaret Qualley spoke onstage at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on Sunday
Moore was married to second husband Bruce Willis at the time she was making Indecent Proposal. She defended the films raunchiness amid claims it was ‘sexist’
She said: ‘I never felt it was derogatory…her body, to me, was the least important sacrifice she made, compared to the potential loss of her marriage, which was something she valued more than anything.’
In 1996, she became the highest-paid actress in film history when she received $12.5million to star in Striptease. But Moore also got nicknamed ‘Gimme Moore’ for her extravagant on-set demands.
In Moore’s award acceptance speech on Sunday, she disclosed that prior to her landing her role in The Substance she feared her Hollywood career might be over.
During her speech, she recounted a memory from 30 years ago when a director called her a ‘popcorn actress’, and said: ‘…that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought, a few years ago, that maybe this was it. Maybe I was complete. Maybe I would – I’d done what I was supposed to do.
‘And as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance. And the universe told me that you’re not done.’
She concluded her speech by saying she was celebrating ‘this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me, and for the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong’.
Moore said in her acceptance speech on Sunday that when she received the role in The Substance it was ‘the universe’ telling her she wasn’t done with her career
In contrast to Moore’s hot streak, Lyne has made just one film in the past two decades, 2022’s Deep Water starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas.
He admitted during his talk at the Roxy Cinema about having mixed feelings around filmmaking.
Lyne said: ‘I loathe the process of filmmaking. I think it’s just awful. The whole thing combines to make people frightened, the bell going off, the clapperboard, and somebody screaming for quiet. By that time everybody’s frightened.’
But he added he was still hoping he would get to shoot a new film titled One Neck – a serial killer thriller set in the wealthy Long Island enclave, the Hamptons.
