Demi Moore says: Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with me

These days, Demi Moore is known more for snagging a hot younger guy than for her acting. The performer, 44, tells U.K.’s Red magazine that she’d like that to change — but Hollywood’s not playing ball. Read the interview excerpts below for more of Moore on tinseltown’s ageism, and her thoughts on her “unconventional” family life.

On coming back from her self-imposed career hiatus:

There was a wonderful opportunity in stepping away [from Hollywood] and growing as a person, and I’m coming back at a different time in my life and I hope it would be reflected in the work.

On Hollywood’s frustrating ageism:

It’s been a challenging few years, being the age I am, with so much focus now on how I look. Almost to the point where I felt like, well, they don’t know what to do with me. I’m not 20. Not 30. But I’m certainly different from what most people feel someone in her forties should be…For many female actors, who turn 40, it means the end of their career, it’s time to retire. There aren’t that many good roles for women over 40. A lot of them don’t have much substance, other than being someone’s mother or wife. If we are told we are not valuable once we hit 30, it is a problem. We all have more to give. We can’t just bend over and wait for something to happen. We have to say, ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more.

On her ex and father of her children, Bruce Willis:

Bruce is a wonderful father. He’s present and he’s involved. It is in a very different form than the traditional, but I feel that my children have a father who is present, so they don’t need someone to replace him. We spend our holidays together and, if Bruce wants to stop by and have dinner, he can just call and come by. I don’t think it is unique; I think it is something we can all do, when we place our children as the priority.

On wanting more children with now-husband Ashton Kutcher:

Once you hit three [children] and you’re outnumbered, it’s really like, ‘What’s the difference between three or four or five?

Source: US Magazine

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