Ashton Kutcher makes unusual comments about his ex Demi Moore

Ashton Kutcher doesn’t mind comparisons between his new TV series and the 2024 film “The Substance,” starring his ex, Demi Moore.

The actor returns to the small screen next week in FX’s “The Beauty,” in which he plays a biotech billionaire who introduces a cosmetic superdrug with some scary side effects. The series appears to share themes with “The Substance,” in which Moore played Elisabeth Sparkle, a Hollywood actress turned fitness guru who goes to deadly lengths to appear youthful.

Speaking to “Entertainment Tonight” this week, Kutcher offered some words of praise for Moore, to whom he was married from 2005 to 2013, while also pointing out how “The Beauty” is different from “The Substance.”

“Demi’s performance in ‘The Substance’ obviously received extraordinary praise. I’m so proud of her that she pulled it off,” he said. “However, the broader context is that we are in a society where cosmetic enhancement is becoming more prevalent and accepted. It’s a strange thing.”

He went on to note: “I think [co-creator Ryan Murphy] “I really wanted to explore that beauty is very different for each of these characters… and sometimes these things have unintended consequences.”

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For the most part, Kutcher and Moore have remained silent about the end of their marriage. However, in her 2019 memoir, “Inside Out,” Moore claimed that she had brought “a third party into our relationship” at Kutcher’s request, after which he began to completely stray from their marriage, she said.

“I felt strangely overcome with shame,” she wrote, according to People. “I couldn’t shake the feeling that this was all somehow my fault.”

In 2015, Kutcher married his former “That ’70s Show” co-star Mila Kunis, with whom he shares two children.

Shortly after the release of Moore’s book, Kutcher shared that he had stayed in touch with his former stepdaughters Rumer Willis, Scout Willis and Tallulah Willis, whom Moore shares with her first husband, actor Bruce Willis.

“I loved them and I will never stop loving them, respecting them, honoring them and supporting them to be successful in anything they set out to do,” he explained on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast.

As for her relationship situation with Moore, she said, “Everything is fine, we’re not dating… there’s nothing wrong.”

Moore has been enjoying something of a professional renaissance since her chilling, no-holds-barred performance in “The Substance” earned her critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination. She is set to return to the big screen in “I Love Boosters,” also starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie and LaKeith Stanfield, later this year.

Watch Ashton Kutcher talk about “The Beauty” below. His comments about Demi Moore start around the 7:22 mark.

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