Demi Moore has had a long career of playing strong, vibrant, outspoken, and yes, sexy AF, characters from the ''80s all the way up until *checks the time* uh, now. So it’s a bit surprising, but ultimately refreshing, to hear that the woman behind iconic roles in
Striptease, Charlie's Angels, About Last Night, Disclosure and
Indecent Proposal actually feels awkward in sexy onscreen situations.“I feel like I, too, have had two sides of myself—the side that seems to portray feeling confident, but even when I have done things where I've had to dress up and feel sexy, it always feels awkward and uncomfortable,” Moore told
Vogue during a recent interview about her new erotic podcast,
Dirty Diana.After dropping her
tell-all memoir nearly a year ago where she took at vulnerable, candid look at her life and struggles, Moore is back in sexy fashion with a dramatic podcast about a woman stuck in a sexless marriage, partly inspired by writer-director Shana Feste's own relationship, who records other women’s fantasies for a hush-hush project.
“Obviously, I've had a couple of marriages. More than a couple, three…,” Moore said. “I just really understood the internal struggle of trying to express yourself and find who you are, and yet the fear to let anybody see it.” We don’t know if that struggle she eludes to happened when she was married to Freddy Moore, Bruce Willis or Ashton Kutcher, or all three, but clearly she's bringing her experiences with her in the role as Diana.It turns out the podcast has more to do with women’s sexual emancipation and empowerment than simple titillation.“There's so much unspoken shame attached to our sexuality,” said Moore. “It's this conditioning telling us that it's only okay for us to desire sex if it's for the purpose of procreation or if it's somebody that we intend to be with for the rest of our lives.”[video_embed id='1993298']RELATED: Demi Moore has transformed her bathroom into an office[/video_embed]Speaking about what drew her to the project, especially since it’s a purely audio format and there aren't too many dramatic, erotic podcasts around, she said it didn't take much convincing.“Even though we're modern women who can feel that we are more liberated, it's still this undercurrent. [
Dirty Diana] was so sex positive. I was in.”The podcast, which comes from QCODE, the same company that brought us Rami Malek’s
Blackout, features some incredible guest voices from the Hollywood elite, like Melanie Griffith, Lena Dunham, and Lili Taylor. Recorded entirely via ZOOM due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, Moore admits that some actresses were reticent to join the roster of voices because of its sensitive subject matter, but, she cautions that if we are moving towards a space where women are truly equal, that includes exploring and examining female sexuality in all of its complicated, messy, wonderful glory.“If we want balance, if we want equality, then we need to create it,” she told
Vogue. “We've had so much of ‘men are more physical and women are more emotional’ and the reality is, we are all both. We have been categorized in our desirability based on our fertility, and that's a real misunderstanding. Our desire is not limited to the range of our childbearing years, and I think we need to see it. We need to understand it.”
She also cautions that our culture of fear surrounding sex needs to be more balanced. “I realized after I sat in on a sex ed class with my daughter that they talked about everything that was fear-based, from getting pregnant to STDs, and, of course, male orgasm because that leads to pregnancy. But nowhere in there was there anything about female orgasm. I was like, ‘Wait. We can't expect men or even boys to know if we're not even given permission to identify it.’ I mean, they figure their s*** out really quick. We take a little more finessing.”
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