Elisabeth Sparkle is presented as an ebullient exercise-video host, sort of like Jane Fonda in the 1980s, and -- although it’s established in a fixed-camera passage-of-time montage that she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- appears to be …

It follows a fading celebrity, Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) who, after being fired by her producer (Dennis Quaid) due to her age, uses a black market drug that creates a younger version of herself (Margaret Qualley) with unexpected side effects.

Nov 5, 2024 · The protagonist from ‘The Substance,’ Elisabeth Sparkle, isn’t directly based on a real-life celebrity. Instead, she’s a work of writer and director Coralie Fargeat’s imagination, created as a narrative representation of the story’s central themes.

Sep 21, 2024 · Sadly, Demi Moore 's Elisabeth Sparkle (and her younger self, Sue, played by Margaret Qualley) did not. But, as Moore, Qualley, and writer-director Coralie Fargeat explain to Entertainment...

Elisabeth Sparkle is the main protagonist in The Substance. She is one of the most desired and successful actresses of Hollywood back in her younger years. However, age is rapidly diminishing her and status, so she’s clearly had a long career she’s proud of.

Our protagonist, Elisabeth Sparkle, played by Demi Moore, is a washed-up actress trying to find her footing now that she’s past her prime. Desperately clinging to relevance in a world of superficiality and youthful bias, Coralie uses mirrors as …

Oct 31, 2024 · Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is an aging Hollywood movie star clinging to her last job: The host of an ’80s style aerobics exercise show. On her 50th birthday, she’s frankly informed by the...

Oct 24, 2024 · The story centers on Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), a fading celebrity who is fired from her TV show for being deemed too old. Desperate to regain her youth and career, she turns to a mysterious black market drug known as The Substance, which has the ability to create a younger version of herself named Sue (Margaret Qualley).

Sep 21, 2024 · The Substance stars Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle, an actress whose career is being phased out now that she has turned 50. Distraught at her fate, she is told about a mysterious product, "the substance," that is said to create a "more perfect you."

Jan 2, 2025 · In ‘The Substance’ (2024), Coralie Fargeat crafts a haunting tale of beauty, identity, and societal rejection, as Demi Moore’s Elisabeth Sparkle battles ageism and the destructive allure of perfection in a cutthroat, image-obsessed world