Getting Ready With Demi Moore for the 2024 AmFAR Gala In Cannes

I grew up at a time, I can look back to Brooke Shields

as a little kid and that was the marker

of how I felt you needed to be in the game,

to be accepted, to be desired.

It really becomes about the battle

that we have within ourselves

when we are in the pursuit

of perfection which doesn't exist.

I think it's time for me to go and get dressed

or maybe I'm just gonna go stand

in my bathroom naked with my jewels on.

[assistant laughing]

[upbeat music]

Beautiful.

[crowd shouting indistinctly]

Hello Vogue.

I'm Demi Moore

and welcome to my gorgeous room at the Hotel du Cap

where I am getting ready for the 30th anniversary

of amfAR Can, please come in.

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amfAR was founded first by Dame Elizabeth Taylor

and Dr. Matilde Krim to fund research

to bring about a cure for HIV, AIDS,

and the fact that we're living in a time

where we're actually witnessing the results

of everyone's efforts.

It's remarkable.

I just feel really incredibly honored.

[upbeat music]

So my one and only other Can experience

was in fact 27 years ago,

but it was a very different experience

because I was here with Bruce Willis,

who's filmed the Fifth Element was opening the festival.

And so it is a very different experience this year

to participate with Show Part as the Godmother

for the Rising Talent

and then to be kind of closing my experience with being

of service to this incredible organization

and then the surprise

of having my film accepted into competition.

So it's been quite a whirlwind week

and I guess I'm making up

for the 27 years that I wasn't here

and it's really been just fantastic, wonderful.

[upbeat music]

Well the dress has a bit of kind of Grecian

or Roman goddess feel to it.

It's a Loewe white and it's a little bit different for me

because I've decided to put my hair up so

that you can really see the beauty of the back,

because it has a little bit of a vintage 30s feel

and yet is very modern

as only the way they can do.

Ilhan does hair.

Alex does makeup.

For makeup, well the dress is so beautiful

and simple that we wanted to have some drama on the eyes

to give it a little edge,

but all in these beautiful warm tones

that are in to Demi's complexion already

and then we'll perk it up with some bright pink

on the cheek later on.

[upbeat music]

And Mousekateer where are you?

[Assistant] I have her.

Oh, hi mouse.

Hi, this is Pilaf, the little mouse

when I was shooting the film, The Substance.

In Paris sometimes saying Pilaf was not the easiest,

so I realized that she was the [Demi speaking French]

which was my little mouse and everyone got it immediately.

She is my traveling companion, my touchstone.

She regulates the heart.

She is a little healing magical creature.

She does get to go quite a lot of places.

Not everywhere is ideal for her,

but if she had her way, she would go.

[upbeat music]

In honor of the Godmother celebration

for the rising young talent with Chopard,

we attended the Red Carpet Premier

and it was jeweled and red

and as we were moving towards the substance,

it seemed to fit that theme.

What else can you say, Brad?

Well, I have been dying to dress to Demi in Armani Prive.

I think that the gowns just scream movie star.

[upbeat music]

This is another gown.

I said to Demi, this would be kind of great to change out

of the red and into the Balenciaga

because it still fit in our story of The Substance,

the Armani kind of representing the blood

and then the Balenciaga had these hips,

which is what happens in the movie,

the body kind of deforming.

This also felt, in a way it was classic,

but with just that little bit of edge

to make it modern.

[bright music]

I love that dress.

I'm a big fan of Delcor,

I love his design so much,

with this dress I knew the combination

of the architecture of the bodice

and then also kind of the fullness in the hips,

but also the suiting fabric that it was made out of,

and so it just seemed totally perfect for her photo call

after doing so much color to do something

that was still really interesting

and eye catching, but in a different way.

[bright music]

When I first read this screenplay for The Substance,

you know, it was sent to me

and my agent said,

I don't wanna tell you anything about it, just read it.

Because it's a really unusual

and unique way of exploring the issues of aging

and lack of self-love and acceptance,

because it goes into the space of body horror

and in a way that extreme

and exaggerated way of going, you know,

into the subject took you out of reality

and at the same time allowed you

to relate to it even more.

It was unlike anything I'd ever read.

It was unusual

and yet it had a grounding truth

that I think we all can relate to.

I grew up at a time, I can look back to Brooke Shields

as a little kid and that was the marker

of how I felt you needed to be

in the game to be accepted, to be desired.

It really becomes about the battle

that we have within ourselves

when we are in the pursuit

of perfection, which doesn't exist.

[bright music]

These are a couple of options

to try once we have the dress on.

This is a ring that I've kind of had a love for

during the whole festival,

so I've asked for it back

just so I can have a little more time with it.

[assistant and Brad laughing]

It's been interesting 'cause there's some shapes

that I wouldn't have normally gone to like this,

but that worked so beautifully with the Schiaparelli,

and then I found

that I've really enjoyed it a few more times.

[Demi and Brad laughing]

[Brad] So we got it back again tonight.

Yes.

[bright music]

[Brad laughing]

I think it's time for me to go and get dressed

or maybe I'm just gonna go stand in my bathroom naked

with my jewels on.

[assistant laughing]

[bright music]

Here it is.

I feel pretty good.

[Brad laughing]

[bright music]

We're on our way.

[upbeat music]

[crowd shouting indistinctly]

[upbeat music]

Goodbye Vogue.

[upbeat music]

Here we go.

This is our hosting look.

Good evening.

HIV must be eradicated

and we can't settle for anything else less than a cure,

and so that's amfAR's goal, that's why we're here,

it's why this night is so important.

[audience clapping and cheering]