Demi Moore was eight months pregnant when she took a role opposite Tom Cruise, and she thinks the A-lister might’ve had some feelings about her pregnancy.
The two were running lines together for their 1992 movie, “A Few Good Men,” and Moore said that she thought “Tom was quite embarrassed.”
“I actually felt okay about it,” Moore said at the New Yorker Festival last week, People magazine reported. “I was moving around, though, right? But I could tell he felt that it was a bit awkward.”
Moore talks with Jia Tolentino during the 2025 New Yorker Festival on Oct. 25 in New York City.
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The “Charlie’s Angel” star surmised the Cruise might’ve felt the way he did because other actors weren’t having children at the time, according to People.
But Moore didn’t want to have to choose between having a career or being a parent.
“It’s one of the many things, for me, that I just felt didn’t make sense. And so I challenged that to say, you know, ‘Why not? Why can’t you have both?’” she added. “But with that, I think, came a lot of pressure I put on myself to, in a sense, prove that it was possible.”
Moore told People she worked out intensively during her pregnancy because she felt like she had to get in shape for her role. She said she now looks back at her juggling act and thinks, “What the fuck was I thinking?”
“And what was I even trying to prove? But it wasn’t as supported as it is today,” she added. “You know, to be breastfeeding and then blocking and rehearsing a scene.”
Cruise’s representatives did not immediately reply to HuffPost’s request for comment.
Rumer Willis, Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Scout Willis, Emma Heming Willis and Tallulah Willis attend Demi Moore’s “Inside Out” book party on Sep. 23, 2019.
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Moore, who shares three daughters with her ex-husband, Bruce Willis, eventually took a break from the spotlight to be with her kids.
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“My mother died, my marriage ended, and I stepped back from work to be with my kids. And there was a moment I realized that my own success—which had been a real driving thrust, a real motivation—wasn’t enough,” Moore said in a recently published interview for Glamour magazine.
“I had to reconnect with what moved me—why was I really doing this?” she added. “We know that outside success is never the answer. And so I think recalibrating took me quite a while to really find the place in me that felt that what I had to offer from my inside was worthy of striving to do meaningful work.”
