THE WOMEN TAKING BACK HOLLYWOOD!

Older female actresses, and rising female directors, are a force to be reckoned with as they redefine Tinseltown

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DEMI'S SECOND ACT

Fans of Demi Moore's classic films like Ghost cheered her on as she won her Golden Globe for playing has-been fitness star Elisabeth Sparkle in horror flick The Substance. But many were shocked it was the first major award she'd been given in her 45-year career, after a producer dismissed her as a "popcorn actress" three decades earlier.

"I bought in and I believed that. And that corroded me over time to the point where I thought, a few years ago, that maybe this was it," Demi, 62, admitted after her big win.

While many see Demi's win as long overdue recognition, The Substance director Coralie Fargeat saw her as the perfect person to depict the struggles of ageing women, and particularly ageing women in Hollywood.

"I had to find an actress who symbolises stardom," Coralie says. "Someone who knows what it's like to receive love from the people who look at you, but who also knows what it's like to lose those eyes."

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