Demi Moore recently opened up about a specific request she made before filming her memorable bikini scene in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle—she didn’t want the camera to focus on her backside.
Appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show, the 62-year-old actress reflected on preparing for the 2003 action-comedy, saying she was told about the bikini scene just three weeks before filming.
“All I remember is begging them not to shoot my butt. I don’t know why that was my obsession,” Moore admitted with a laugh.
The Substance star shared that the tight timeline forced her to shift her attention away from self-image and focus fully on the role. “I had no time to think about what I looked like, which was almost better,” she said.
Host Drew Barrymore, who also starred in the film, praised Moore’s physical transformation. “No one can do in three weeks what you showed up with,” Barrymore said. “There’s no magic wand that gets you to that in three weeks. I’ve done a three-week diet. I didn’t end up there!”
Moore also confessed she wasn’t ready for the intense attention the scene generated—especially because of her age. “I wasn’t prepared for the focus that happened from it. I had no idea the amplification, ironically, that was specifically tied to my age,” she said. Moore was 40 at the time of the film’s release.
She went on to explain that she had taken a break from acting to focus on raising her daughters—Rumer, Tallulah, and Scout Willis—before signing on to Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. “I had taken a break only to be with them,” she said. “They finally were like, ‘You have to do this movie. We love the first one. Please, aren’t you going to ever work again?’”
Moore said one of her motivations for taking the role was to show her children the full scope of who she was as an artist. “I wanted them to witness the full expression of who I am,” she added.
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle premiered in theaters on July 27, 2003.
