Full Throttle’ Bikini Scene & Why She Felt “There Wasn’t A Place For Me” In Hollywood After Film

Demi Moore is reflecting on her career after starring in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle alongside Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu.

“What’s interesting is I felt [criticism] more when I hit my 40s. I had done Charlie’s Angels, and there was a lot of conversation around this scene in a bikini, and it was all very heightened, a lot of talk about how I looked,” Moore told Michelle Yeoh for Interview magazine. “And then I found that there didn’t seem to be a place for me. I didn’t feel like I didn’t belong. It’s more like I felt that feeling of, I’m not 20, I’m not 30, but I wasn’t yet what they perceived as a mother.”

After starring as Madison Lee in the 2003 Charlie’s Angels sequel, Moore questioned her place in Hollywood.

“Where do I fit in? It was a time that felt, not dead, but flat,” Moore said. “I don’t know if I’ve ever done that when I’ve come up against something that I don’t understand exists as a limitation.”

She continued, “There was a moment, I have to say, where I started to wonder, is this really what I should be doing? Maybe that part of my life is complete. Not even over, but complete. Then I realized, if I’m questioning it, then I need to inject it with energy so that I know for sure.”

McG directed the action comedy, and Moore played the film’s villain, a former angel who became an independent operative.