She wowed in a long black Gothic-romantic dress that fit her like a glove. I’m sure there was a huge boon in pottery classes that they hadn’t seen since macrame, Birkenstocks, and hairy legs were in fashion.Īt the SAG Awards, the mom-of-three took to the stage to present the Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture award to the cast of “Spotlight.”ĭemi Moore wows at the SAG Awards in a floor-length black Zac Posen dress I thank AFI and Target for bringing together this magical night for you to see it on the big screen. And I’m truly grateful to have been part of this film, and I’m honored to be sharing with you tonight. It’s something that touches people’s heart, it transcends and has comforted people’s soul in great loss and it has instilled a sense of hope and magic that those we love are always still with us. Ghost was the first film Jerry Zucker directed on his own I loved it and was so excited for it to come out, and everyone said the reviews were coming out!’ and they were HORRIBLE! We were panned across the board, and I thought, Wow, this is really not good. What’s interesting is that I learned one really big lesson from this film, which is that I went to see it and everyone was moved. It’s either going to be something really special, really amazing, or really an absolute bust, and the beauty of being at the beginning of your career, and it’s important to remember at any stage of your life is taking the risk is always where the reward is, and I think the beauty in this film is that none of us knew, and the alchemy that came together with Whoopi and Patrick, and our film editor, Walter Murch, and Adam Greenberg, our DP, it just had magic. It’s a love story, and it’s a guy-a dead guy-trying to save his wife-and there is a comedy part, but really, really it’s a love story, and I thought, Wow, this is really a recipe for disaster. I was trying to think about what I could share with you that you don’t already know, and I was thinking about being a young actress and getting this script that Joe Rubin had written and finding it so fascinating and different.
It’s shocking to think this movie was made 25 years ago and being a part of something that has had the beauty of truly standing up against the test of time. She talked about the movie in April 2013 at a 2013 AFI Night at the Movies screening of Ghost. Elmo’s Fire (1985), and About Last Night… (1986), Ghost made Demi Moore one of the highest-paid actresses of all time. Patrick Swayze plays Sam Wheat, a murdered banker whose ghost sets out to save his girlfriend (Demi Moore as Molly Jensen) from the person who killed him, in GhostĪlready known for her roles in Blame It on Rio (1984), St. “When we did the rehearsal, I just remember that it was sexy enough that it embarrassed Patrick and Demi a little bit when they were doing it,” director Zucker said on the Ghost DVD commentary.” “It was like a sure-fire sign that I was no good, and I was faking it.” “I just didn’t want my pot to wobble,” Demi said in a Ghost featurette about the pottery scene. To prepare for the pottery wheel scene, which is recognized as one of the most iconic moments of ’90s cinema, she took a few pot-throwing lessons.Īccording to Wendy Leigh’s biography “Patrick Swayze: One Last Dance” that you can buy on Amazon, Swayze rehearsed the pottery scene with his wife Lisa Niemi in order to get past his embarrassment.ĭemi Moore was 26 when filming the pottery scene in Ghost with Patrick Swayze The movie was theatrically released on July 13, 1990, by Paramount Pictures. Patrick Swayze was born on August 18, 1952, in Houston, Texas, and was 36 years old when filming started. Praised for her performance and nominated for a Golden Globe, Demi was 26 years old when filming for Ghost began shooting in July 1989.īorn on November 11, 1962, in Roswell, New Mexico, she turned 27 on November 11, 1989. Patrick Swayze as Sam Wheat and Demi Moore as Molly Jensen in the 1990 American romantic fantasy thriller film Ghost In addition to receiving five nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards, it was the highest-grossing film of 1990. In January 2016, Ghost actress Demi Moore turned heads at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.ĭemi Moore wears her hair up at the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held on January 30, 2016, at The Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles Demi Moore’s breakthrough role in GhostĢ6 years earlier, Demi had her breakthrough role as Molly Jensen in the romantic fantasy thriller film Ghost.