Demi Moore knew she was going to lose the Oscar to Mikey Madison

Demi Moore expected Mikey Madison to triumph the Academy Award for pb actress, she precocious told Time magazine.

“I don’t cognize wherefore I knew, but I did,” Moore said successful the interview. “I was truthful centered and calm. I didn’t consciousness gutted. I didn’t consciousness immoderate of those kinds of things. I conscionable trusted, and americium successful spot of, immoderate is going to unfold.”

An manufacture veteran, Moore had an awesome awards play run, winning the acting prize astatine the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards for her show arsenic Elisabeth Sparkle successful “The Substance,” a movie astir an histrion filled with truthful overmuch self-loathing that she takes a cause called “the substance” to make a younger mentation of herself.

She revealed successful her affectional Golden Globe acceptance code that a shaper erstwhile called her a “popcorn actress,” which “corroded maine implicit clip to the constituent wherever I thought a fewer years agone that possibly this was it.”

Despite being the favourite to triumph (and contempt the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ emotion for a redemption arc), Moore mislaid to newcomer Madison.

Moore acknowledged she was disappointed, but not hurt, by the loss. In fact, she said that during the commercialized interruption earlier the grant was announced, she whispered to her manager, “I deliberation it’s going to Mikey.”

After the awards show, Moore wrote connected Instagram, “As this awards play comes to a close, I’m truthful overwhelmed with gratitude for this journey. It’s been the thrust of a beingness and we’re conscionable getting started! So grateful for my team, my chap nominees, and everyone who has made this acquisition truthful afloat of joyousness and light. ... And a immense congratulations to #MikeyMadison — can’t hold to spot what you bash adjacent ♥️”

For her part, Madison told the Hollywood Reporter that aft the awards show, “I texted with Demi, who I adore. She’s 1 of the sweetest, kindest women I’ve ever met, and I’m truthful grateful that I was capable to conscionable her and witnesser her brilliance and endowment successful person.”

Despite the Oscars snub, Moore told Time that the occurrence of “The Substance” yet accrued her profile.

“To spell from the opening of this past twelvemonth feeling similar I was ne'er portion of the speech to being acknowledged successful a captious mode for my enactment has conscionable allowed maine to unfastened up my content successful greater possibilities,” she said.

At the moment, Moore is filming Season 2 of the Paramount+ play bid “Landman.” Her adjacent diagnostic volition beryllium Boots Riley’s “I Love Boosters,” besides starring Keke Palmer and LaKeith Stanfield.