Demi Moore on the real reason she thinks Tom Cruise was uncomfortable with her pregnancy
Demi Moore was eight months pregnant when she accepted a role opposite Tom Cruise, and she believes the star may have had some feelings about her pregnancy.
The two were writing lines together for their 1992 film, “A Few Good Men,” and Moore said he thought “Tom was pretty embarrassed.”
“I actually felt good about it,” Moore said at the New Yorker Festival last week, People magazine reported. “But I was moving, right? But I realized I felt like it was a little uncomfortable.”
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The “Charlie’s Angel” star surmised that Cruise might have felt that way because other actors weren’t having children at the time, according to People.
But Moore didn’t want to have to choose between having a career and being a father.
“It’s one of the many things that, to me, I felt didn’t make sense. So I challenged him and said, ‘Why not? Why can’t you have both?'” he added. “But I think with that came a lot of pressure that I put on myself to, in a sense, prove that it was possible.”
Moore told People that she exercised intensely during her pregnancy because she felt like she had to get in shape for her role. He said he now looks back on his juggling act and thinks, “What the fuck was I thinking?”
“And what was he trying to prove? But he didn’t have the support he has today,” he added. “You know, being breastfeeding and then blocking and rehearsing a scene.”
Cruise’s representatives did not immediately respond to News’s request for comment.
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Moore, who shares three daughters with her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, finally took a break from the spotlight to be with her children.
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“My mother died, my marriage ended and I left work to be with my children. And there was a moment when I realized that my own success, which had been a real drive, a real motivation, was not enough,” Moore said in a recently published interview with Glamor magazine.
“I had to reconnect with what moved me. Why was I really doing this?” he added. “We know that external success is never the answer. That’s why I think it took me quite a while to recalibrate to really find the place in me that felt like what I had to offer from within was worthy of striving to do meaningful work.”