The stars and director of The Substance at TIFF 2024.
The Big Picture Writer-director Coralie Fargeat taps into something primal with her body horror movie, The Substance."I want to let this violence go out and hopefully make a change," she told Perri Nemiroff while at the Toronto International Film Festival for her movie's North American premiere.
You sharing that personal experience via the film is definitely going to inspire a lot of other people struggling with the same thing to find peace with it. So again, thank you for that. DEMI MOORE: There's a really interesting aspect because this doesn't have a lot of dialogue. So for me, I felt like I needed to do a lot more work before I even got to the set to really have all of Elisabeth within me, everything, so that it was alive at all moments, everything that was occurring. So it wasn't really that it took place on the set, but I think you're right. That can happen where you kind of lock in. But for me, it was almost, really, before I got there.
FARGEAT: The Sue stuff for me probably had some kind of sexy connotation. Like that Lolita, babydoll — it represents this to me. And again, a way to symbolize what Margaret's character was.For what it's worth,"Perri" doesn't either. I will watch any horror movie, body horror, you name it. I will not flinch. Watching him eat the shrimp might be the first time in years that I actually lifted my hands to cover my eyes.
QUALLEY: I also just instantly loved Demi. I loved her from afar for a long time, so then having the pleasure of meeting her, working with her, and getting to know her has just been the best. MOORE: I think it was the script. You don't come across material that's so complex and that is daring, that is also creating a visually riveting world. I think Coralie is very detailed, and so she just laid it out there for us.
MOORE: You start to embody through the transformation. But it is physical for all departments because when you're in the chair anywhere from six to nine hours, and then you have only so few hours to shoot ... And we were doing something that was also, still, very physical, which this is very delicate, all the stuff around the face. You were talking the other day, Margaret, about how it would start falling apart.
QUALLEY: I mean, so many things. My hands and feet really bothered me as a kid. I have really big feet, and I would put my feet into way-too-small shoes, and then that made my feet worse. I've got big, long hands. I was taller than all the boys growing up. And then I remember someone telling me my knees were weird, so I stopped wearing dresses for a long time.
I'm going to lean into self-love for my last question. In this industry, we give each other awards. I think that is super cool. We should keep doing that. But, I find that nobody says"good job" to themselves nearly enough. I want to know something you each accomplished making The Substance that you know you'll be able to look back on and say, “I am so proud of what I did there.”
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