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Watch Melanie Griffith, Rosie O’Donnell, and Rita Wilson honor Demi Moore at ELLE’s 2024 Women in Hollywood event in Los Angeles.

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00:00I can't see this one.

00:01I can't either.

00:01OK, smush in, smush in.

00:03OK, there.

00:04All right, there we go.

00:05Although we've been friends, as you can see, for a long time,

00:10we first worked with Dumi on Now and Then,

00:12a film that she produced and starred in back in 1995,

00:16nearly 30 years ago.

00:18We were all honored that she asked

00:20us to be a part of that film, a story about women, produced

00:23by women, written by a woman, directed by a woman,

00:26and starring primarily women, a rare thing in 1995

00:30and a true gift.

00:31We played a group of lifelong friends

00:33who consider their friendship now

00:36as they look back on their lives as young girls then.

00:40Kind of what we're doing here.

00:42Yeah.

00:42Friends looking at our lives now,

00:45reflecting back on our lives then.

00:47That's meta.

00:48It's meta.

00:49What's meta?

00:49It's meta?

00:50Yeah.

00:51Meta?

00:52I thought you said MAGA had a panic attack.

00:54No.

00:55Is that better?

00:57Is that better?

00:59OK.

01:00Ever since that Jelly Roll song, since Tuesday the 5th,

01:03I am not OK.

01:07It's been my mantra.

01:10OK, is this me?

01:11Am I supposed to be talking now?

01:13All right, well anyway, it feels like 30 years ago

01:15was a whole different world.

01:17Well, you know what, it is a different world.

01:19It's a different world.

01:20It is, and that was a good show in the 80s.

01:23We're here today to introduce Demi Moore.

01:26Yes, we are.

01:27Demi, back then, she shocked the world

01:31appearing naked and seven months pregnant

01:33on the cover of Vanity Fair.

01:34Now, celebrities walk the red carpet in less coverage

01:37than she was wearing on that scandalous cover.

01:40You know, I turned down that gig.

01:42Annie Leibovitz.

01:43Oh, yeah.

01:44Well, frankly, if I looked like Demi Moore,

01:46I'd be naked in the frozen food section of Ralph's every day.

01:48Yeah, me too.

01:49Yeah, for sure.

01:51Back then, in the film The First Wives Club,

01:54the character Elise, played by the incomparable Goldie Hawn,

01:59laments all too wisely that there are only three ages

02:03for women in Hollywood, babe, district attorney,

02:06and driving Miss Daisy.

02:08Yes, but back then, Demi was a box office star

02:12in her own right playing strong, complicated women

02:16in a string of successful hits, Ghost, A Few Good Men,

02:20Indecent Proposal, Disclosure, G.I. Jane.

02:25Yes, as well as being a pioneer as an actress,

02:29who was also producing hit films such as Now and Then,

02:32G.I. Jane, Austin Powers 1 and 2,

02:34and the award winning If These Walls Could Talk.

02:37And now, she's experiencing a renaissance.

02:41A demisance, if you will.

02:43A demisance.

02:44You can get one at Starbucks.

02:46Do they have decaf?

02:47I'm not sure.

02:48OK, demisance.

02:49I like this.

02:51It started when she wrote her intimate, emotionally charged,

02:54and brutally honest memoir, Inside Out.

02:58And it continued as she gave strong, complex performances

03:02this year in Feud, Capote Versus the Swans, The Substance,

03:07and the new Taylor Sheridan series, Landman.

03:10Back then, Demi used to star power

03:12to effect change, most notably fighting for gender pay equity

03:16in Hollywood by leveraging her box office,

03:18using the same calculation the male actors had

03:21been using for decades to get paid her worth,

03:24blasting through the glass ceiling of higher pay

03:26for women.

03:27Earning $12.5 million to headline a movie,

03:32a first for any woman.

03:34Yeah.

03:35For which, by the way, she was also awarded criticism,

03:42blowback, and outrage by some in the industry.

03:45Some.

03:46But women were high fiving her all day long.

03:49And now, a new generation of brave, empowered actresses,

03:53many of them are here tonight, are

03:55following in Demi's footsteps, fighting

03:57to close the gender pay gap for all women, and winning.

04:02And they're still getting a lot of criticism,

04:03and blowback, and outrage.

04:05Change can be slow.

04:07Yes.

04:07Four years is going to be hell.

04:11Back then, Demi often sought out roles

04:14that challenged societal norms, or at least initiated

04:17debate about complex issues.

04:19Women in the military, sexual harassment in the workplace,

04:23abortion.

04:24And now, motivated by her own personal lifelong struggle

04:28with beauty standards, body image, and aging,

04:32Demi continues to challenge society's

04:34unrealistic expectations of female beauty.

04:37Like women's own complicity in perpetuating

04:39these expectations, and the lengths

04:42that they go to to meet them.

04:44In her film, The Substance, with a powerful performance

04:47that many are calling the best of her career.

04:50And finally, back then, Demi was a fighter.

04:53A force of nature.

04:53A truth teller.

04:54A rule breaker.

04:55A problem solver.

04:56A caring, inclusive, loving, wise human.

05:00Always generous in spirit, always the one who shows up.

05:03Always a thoughtful listener, devoted wife.

05:06Mother and friend.

05:07And now, Demi is still all of those things,

05:10plus the hottest grandmother pushing a stroller

05:12through a tunnel box.

05:13Come on.

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