'I'M PRESENT TO WHAT UNFOLDS'

Demi Moore tells us what her comeback year has meant to her - and why her family is at the centre of it all

-  GILL PRINGLE

When Demi Moore made her triumphant return to the big leagues last year in surprise body-horror hit The Substance, Hollywood took note.

More specifically, Taylor Sheridan – co-creator of the Yellowstone franchise – immediately expanded her small supporting role for the second season of his new Texas drama, Landman.

Seizing on Demi’s reemergence into the cultural zeitgeist, he went so far as to kill off her screen husband, Monty (Jon Hamm), so that her character, Cami Miller, could assume control of his oil corporation.

In one spine-tingling moment, we watch Cami take the stage to address a roomful of rival billionaires – who are all male and have already written her off. Referring to herself as a “hunter,” she issues a stern warning: “Underestimating me is how I buy you out.”

What makes this so powerful is the parallel with the 63-year-old star’s own return to centre stage: bigger, badder and better.

“Where I connect with Cami is on the idea of feeling, at times, that I’ve been underestimated, and I think she is underestimated,” says Demi. “I don’t think of it so much as, maybe when I was younger, needing to prove something. But it’s always less about proving it to the outside and [more] about proving it to myself.”

BRAT-PACK DARLING

Demi was one of the highest-paid actresses of her generation. She rose to fame in the 1980s with films such as St. Elmo's Fire and