The actress wants to take chances and live boldly while setting an example to her three daughters, whom she shares with her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, 69.
“I really try to be as present in the moment as possible, and what I feel is an excitement of possibilities, that we’re defining a new — I don’t want to say generation — but we are what the future is for women,” Moore said on the Monday, September 9, episode of Today to promote her upcoming film, The Substance.
“And I look at having my daughters, and I don’t want there to ever be in their minds that there is an end. To me, this is the most exciting time of my life. It is,” she continued.
The body horror movie, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival four months ago, opens in theaters on September 18.
It provides a different take on societal beauty standards and aging.
Moore described the film as “a little bit like The Picture of Dorian Gray meets Death Becomes Her with a Jane Fonda workout.”
“But I think it really is a very unique way of really delving into, I think, a very relevant subject matter, which is aging, the perception, the collective consciousness of women’s value diminishing as we get older, which just isn’t the truth. But in this case, it kind of is representing some of the old ideals,” she noted.