Demi Moore has a massive career that spans over 40 years with hit films such as St Elmo’s Fire, Ghost, A Few Good Men and, more recently, The Substance.
But before the raven-haired looker started hitting red carpets, she had to take some fairly menial jobs.
The 62-year-old Oscar nominee broke down her gigs with Glamour magazine after being named one of their Women Of The Year.
At the age of 14 the future A-list star was cold calling deadbeats to get them to fork over money as she worked for a Collection Agency.
Next the diva from New Mexico found employment as a receptionist to a producer who reported to Beverly, 90210 wizard Aaron Spelling, who is the late father of actress Tori Spelling.
Demi Moore has a massive career that spans over 40 years with hit films such as St Elmo’s Fire, Ghost, A Few Good Men and, more recently, The Substance. But before the raven-haired looker started hitting red carpets, she had to take some pretty menial jobs
The glamorous movie icon called the experiences ‘very humbling.’ She went on to model then landed her big break on the soap opera General Hospital: she played Jackie Templeton, an investigative reporter, from 1982 to 1984.
Moore talked to her Substance co-star Margaret Qualley for the magazine; the photographer was Thomas Whiteside.
‘My first job was working at a collection agency where I was on the phone,’ noted the ex-wife of Die Hard actor Bruce Willis.
‘So I had to call people who hadn’t paid their bills. And because I had such a low deep voice, they didn’t know that I was, like, 14 years old. Then I moved out on my own at 16.’
Next she stepped it up a bit to earn bigger bucks.
‘I didn’t do the typical [thing], which was working in a restaurant. Mine were office-oriented jobs,’ shared the Striptease star.
‘I worked for an accountant. I was a receptionist at 20th Century Fox for a producer who worked for Aaron Spelling.’
And the experience made an impression on her: ‘It was being in the [Hollywood] world but not in the world, very humbling. Being able to watch it from an objective point of view and going, “This isn’t where I’m going to stay.” I had much bigger designs.’
She also talked her inspiration who eventually became a very famous actress.
The Oscar nominee broke down her gigs with Glamour magazine after being named one of their Women of the Year
At the age of 14 the future A-list star was cold calling deadbeats to get them to fork over money as she worked as collection agent. Next she was a receptionist to a producer
The actress is now on the show Landman with Billy Bob Thornton
She also talked her inspiration: Cat People star Nastassja Kinski
‘I met this young woman who was just a couple of years older, who lived in the same apartment building with her single mother, as I was,’ began Moore.
‘And I remember looking down from the balcony and she was out by the pool. She was a German girl, and she was so comfortable in her own skin. She seemed so self-possessed, and she was so stunning.
‘And it was like I didn’t know what she had, but I wanted that. And we became friends. She spoke English well but wasn’t confident in reading. So she would have me read scripts aloud to her.’
The cover girl added, ‘So as I was reading the scripts aloud, we did a lot of things together as two teenagers in West Hollywood with our single moms. Then she left to go back to Europe to shoot the film test.’
The woman was Nastassja Kinski – now 64 – who went on to star in Cat People, Tess and Maria’s Lovers.
‘And as she left, I turned that reflection back on myself, the desire of wanting what she had. It wasn’t so much that she was an actress, it was that there was a comfort she had in herself that I wanted. And that’s what moved me in the direction.’
