Demi Moore Talks with Jia Tolentino

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I'm David Remnick. Demi Moore was one of the biggest stars of the 80s and 90s. And for a time, she was the highest paid actress in Hollywood. And since she re-emerged as a lead in the 2024 film The Substance, Dimi Moore has been very busy. She's got a major role in the new season of Taylor Sheridan's Landman, and she stars in two widely anticipated films that are coming out this year.

First, there's a science fiction film directed by Boots Riley. And then there's Strange Arrivals, where she plays a role alongside Coleman Domingo, and it's about a couple who claim to have been abducted by aliens. That sounds pretty good. Dimi Moore's memoir, Inside Out, came out a few years ago, and this fall at the New Yorker festival, she sat down to talk with staff writer Gia Tolentino.

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