Demi Moore has opened up over the drama that engulfed her Striptease film pay packet.
The actor became paid $12.5 million to waste the 1996 film, making her the finest-paid actress in Hollywood for the time being, and drawing ire after the film became severely savaged.
Now 61, Demi believes the backlash came about totally thanks to the film’s subject matters of female sexual empowerment.
“When I became the highest-paid actress – why is it that, at that moment, the choice was to bring me down?” she asked, in a brand new interview with The Novel York Times’ The Interview podcast.
“I think anyone who had been in the position that was the first to get that kind of equality of pay would probably have taken a hit. But because I did a film that was dealing with the world of stripping and the body, I was extremely shamed.”
She added she felt there were same points at play in 1991, when she became criticised for posing unclothed for the cover of Arrogance Aesthetic whereas carefully pregnant.
“It’s no different than when I did the cover for Vanity Fair pregnant,” Demi acknowledged. “I didn’t understand why it was such a big deal, why women when they were pregnant needed to be hidden? Why is it that we have to deny that we had sex? That’s the fear, right, that if you show your belly, that means, oh, my gosh, you’ve had sex.”
