Demi Moore would not want to relive her youth. The 62-year-old actress was just starting out as a model and actress in the years before she conquered Hollywood in the early 1990s, but admitted that she “couldn’t be paid” to do that time over again and thinks getting older is a “tremendous gift.”
Speaking at the Time100 Summit, she explained: “I think that there was a sense of things ending at a certain point as opposed to the reality, which is just that we’re evolving. It’s not ending.”
© Jemal Countess“I also have thought recently about this idea that aging and being old are not the same thing. And somehow we’ve confused that and that aging actually is a tremendous gift.”
© Vinnie Zuffante“I would not trade! You could not pay me to be 21. As good as it might sound, it was torture!”
Meanwhile, the Ghost star recently missed out on the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Substance, with 26-year-old Mikey Madison scooping the coveted accolade instead for her leading role in Anora.
When asked if she could ever see herself winning an Oscar, Moore admitted it would be “nice,” but ultimately doesn’t mind losing out this time, believing everything meant for her will naturally come to fruition.
© Doug Peters - PA ImagesShe said: “I think that would be nice. I can’t say I would be mad at it.”“The question is, ‘Should I have won?’ It is certainly not the perspective of how I hold it because I didn’t. And I really do subscribe to this idea that everything in life is happening for me, not to me.”
“The message here is that there’s more work to be done, that this issue is not complete.”
