Demi Moore is on the Cannes Film Festival’s jury this year, so we’re going to have a lot of Demi photos in the next week-and-a-half. Unfortunately, Demi got some fresh face work ahead of Cannes, and in some photos, she fully looks like CGI. I know we’re supposed to be like “yas, queen, do whatever makes you happy,” and while I will defend Demi’s right to do whatever she wants, her cosmetic work looks downright off-kilter.
Anyway, fashion notes from Day #1: the polka-dotted jury photocall look was Jacquemus, and it’s interesting and fresh, even though I’m not a polka-dot person. It was cute though. Her evening/premiere look was also Jacquemus, a custom piece, paired with Chopard jewelry. This dress is totally whack, and I’m shocked that it’s custom. It doesn’t fit her! And it looks so dated and 1980s. I do appreciate that she brought out the big jewels though, and that Chopard necklace is epic.
Meanwhile, it looks like Demi was part of that same selling-AI-to-Hollywood meeting which included Sandra Bullock and Reese Witherspoon. In Cannes, Demi got a question about AI and her answer was no bueno.
Demi Moore weighed into the debate surrounding artificial intelligence during the Cannes Film Festival jury press conference on Tuesday, saying that “AI is here” and Hollywood should “find ways in which we can work with it.”
Asked by Variety her thoughts on how AI is impacting the movie business and if there should be more regulation in place, Moore said: “Wow, that’s a big question. I think the reality is that to resist — I always feel that against-ness breeds against-ness. AI is here. And so to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose. So to find ways in which we can work with it I think is a more valuable path to take.”
She added, “To your question of, are we doing enough to protect ourselves? I don’t know the answer to that. And so my inclination would be to say probably not.”
Moore, who was last at Cannes with her body horror hit “The Substance,” went on to say that “there’s beautiful aspects to being able to utilize” AI, but it can never replace the human experience or touch. “The truth is there really isn’t anything to fear because what it can never replace is what true art comes from, which is not the physical, it comes from the soul,” Moore said. “It comes from the spirit of each and every one of us sitting here, to each and every one of us who creates every day. And that they can never recreate through something that is technical.”
Earlier in the conference, Moore was asked if she believes speaking freely about politics can be detrimental to the movie business, to which she responded: “I would hope not.”
“Part of art is about expression, so if we start censoring ourselves then I think we shut down the very core of our creativity, which is where we can discover truth and answers,” said Moore, who was last at Cannes with her body horror hit “The Substance.”
What the actual f–k is that answer? “I think the reality is that to resist — I always feel that against-ness breeds against-ness. AI is here. And so to fight it is to fight something that is a battle that we will lose.” Against-ness breeds against-ness? Are you f–king joking? You can’t be against something because that breeds more contrarian opinions! The greatest trick the AI devil ever pulled is convincing people of AI’s inevitability and dominance. I’m so disappointed in Demi. With her AI-looking face.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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- Demi Moore, Isaach de Bankole, Laura Wandel, Stellan Skarsgard, Chloe Zhao, Park Chan-wook, Ruth Negga, Diego Cespedes und Paul Laverty beim Photocall mit der Jury auf dem Festival de Cannes 2026 / 79 Internationale Filmfestspiele von Cannes am Palais des Festivals. Cannes, 12.05.2026 *** Demi Moore, Isaach de Bankole, Laura Wandel, Stellan Skarsgard, Chloe Zhao, Park Chan wook, Ruth Negga, Diego Cespedes and Paul Laverty at the photocall with the jury at the Festival de Cannes 2026 79 Cannes International Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals Cannes, 12 05 2026 Foto:xD.xBedrosianx/xFuturexImagex jury_6503,Image: 1098310209, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no , Credit line: IMAGO/Dave Bedrosian/Avalon
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- Jury Members Isaach de Bankolé, Chloé Zhao, Demi Moore, Jury President Park Chan-wook, Laura Wandel, Diego Céspedes, Stellan Skarsgård and Paul Laverty attend the opening ceremony and “La Vénus Electrique” (The Electric Venus) screening during the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 12, 2026 in Cannes, France,Image: 1098385446, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no , Credit line: Olivier Huitel/Avalon
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- Demi Moore attends the opening ceremony and “La Vénus Electrique” (The Electric Venus) screening during the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 12, 2026 in Cannes, France.,Image: 1098387948, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no , Credit line: Olivier Huitel/Avalon
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- Demi Moore attends the opening ceremony and “La Vénus Electrique” (The Electric Venus) screening during the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 12, 2026 in Cannes, France.,Image: 1098388167, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no , Credit line: Olivier Huitel/Avalon
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I never liked her or her tiny dog.
Carrie –I am dead
Th polka dot dress was great. The AI answer was word salad.
All new or emerging technologies always hit initial resistance, as a millennial i have witnessed quite a few in the last three decades and now people cant even imagine life without them.
But those emerging technologies had buy-in from the youngest generations to experience them and be impacted by them. AI doesn’t have that, Gen Z HATES it.
Yeah, from what I can tell, Gen Z has not bought in as much as the older gen. To quote my favorite young actor, “Fuck AI, just fuck it to death.”
Sadly, I’m not sure I agree, @Wendy. I teach at a top public university; my college students are Gen Z, and they use AI for anything they think they can get away with. Even though sometimes their use of AI slop is so obvious they fail the assignment as a result…
And my child is a Gen Alpha middle schooler, and not only does her public school have them use Chromebooks for everything – which means parents have almost no control over their students’ screentime or screen experiences, since we have no access to parental controls, etc. on the school devices they are assigned, and can’t limit their “homework” time obviously – but almost all of her teachers have also bought the “AI is the future” line, and thus encourage its use.
I do disagree that AI is inevitable (see Laser disks, mini disc players, MySpace, Friendster, Ask Jeeves[RIP this week!] etc. – not all technology that makes a big splash ends up lasting.
Unfortunately, with enough people drinking the AI Kool-Aid (by choice, celebs, or forced to, like the kids coming up), THAT is what will make AI the future. But it is a media, educational, and money-led choice, not something inherently inevitable.
So for Pete’s sake, at least the grown-ups should stop trying to get everyone else to drink the Kool-Aid.
As a Millennial, I have seen a lot of new technology that we were promised would change the world that DID NOT find widespread adoption. Remember 3D printing was going to change the world? But it had very limited case usage, which is what we are seeing with AI.
Also, it’s worth mentioning that everyone uses the future tense when talking about GenAI use but it’s been around for 5 years now, and that’s actually a really really long time in tech years. If it was going to get better, it would have already done it.
Ameerah M, best comment of the day. “Comply and you will be safe” is the mantra and lie of the whole Trump administration.
Why do we need live actors at all if we can generate ones that we don’t have to pay?
We can’t generate enough energy to power a full-length feature made in AI. If you noticed, AI clips are always very short. To generate enough power to even hold a scene for 2 minutes is not something we’re capable of right now. I think once people get acclimated to AI they will get picky about AI and the handmade or human made will stand out even more.
China is already doing with their short dramas. However, they are very uncanny valley looking at times. I’m sure they will have that corrected in no time though the more they acclimate to it.
She sounds pragmatic. I didn’t find her answer offensive, even if I find AI annoying to deal with.
Oh I love that polka dot dress. I’m a lover of polka dots, stripes, and rainbow colors. I don’t care if it’s twee.
It’s maybe twee until you realize there are polka dots suspended on wires coming out of the dress. Yikes.
No one is going to give a response that satisfies everyone but I thought Demi handled it well. I love the polka dot ensemble! And let’s please refrain from making too big an issue of her appearance.
The dress and bag is giving Wonder Bread packaging.
But she isn’t wrong about AI the issue is the expectations of CEOs and the reality are worlds apart. CEO’s threw out hundreds of thousands of employees to the curb. Expecting AI to seamlessly replace them. When the reality is, the tech is not fully there yet.
It’s something that can augment and help reduce repetitive tasks. But the mistakes it generates and some of the limited capabilities. On top of the costs with tokens and the natural resources it hoovers up to operate. Seems to me the cost outweighs the gains. But CEOs were sold a dream.
I love both of these looks. The polka dot dress with those sunglasses is so pretty and perfect for Cannes.
Ai data centers are poisoning the environment and driving energy costs that the corporations should be paying, up. Like your light bill going 84 percent up.
We better fight it.
Corporations and government are taking homes by eminent domain.
We better fight it.
AI bubbles induce psychosis.
We better fight it.
And finally garbage in is garbage out. It’s presenting opinions as fact. Bias drives the algorithms and Ai should only be a tool.
Right now we are the tool.
We better fight for laws and policies that protect community.
Oh yah one more thing Ai killed school girls in Iran.
We will be under the same scrutiny. So
We better fight it.
Yeah, I think this sums it up well. There are things that AI can help us with but the tech savants are turning it into a monster to rule the world. We never properly regulated social media and we’re paying a heavy price for that now. Now is the time to get AI under control before it ends up controlling us. The massive data centers alone are a huge 🚩. SM and AI should be treated as public utilities, not the personal playthings of sociopathic billionaires.
Exactly. I think we need to stop listening to the opinions of rich famous people in regards to AI. Because they are not the ones dealing with the realities of it. The datat centers are not in THEIR neighborhoods causing cancer, using up all the water and energy resources and causing electric bills to skyrocket. They are not losing THEIR jobs – yet – to it. AI is having ZERO effect on their lives at this point.
And if people can’t push back against AI and not fall into the myth of inevitability – (which is simply a defeatist way of looking at life in general – nothing is inevitable), how are they going to have the strength and courage to push back against everything else happening in this world right now? It’s giving “comply and you will be safe” – which is a lie.
👏🏻 Preach. Say it louder for the people in the back.
Anyone who supports AI can shove it you-know-where tbh.
Yup. How hard is it to have some goddamn principals?
@death by bacon- PREACH!! I am deeply saddened and frightened by the advent of the monster of AI blanketing our collective consciousness. It then does become a blanket. A boring, monochromatic, unthinking, non-curious hellscape.
I spoke to a 30 year old the other day. He is unemployed, not too motivated, thinking that universal income is on the horizon and he will get to enjoy a life of personal creativity and leisure.
IT’S CALLED LEISURE BECAUSE WE DO IT AFTER WE ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING! Who is going to buy, read, listen to your personal creativity when they will be personally creating their own? (I also don’t believe universal income will be a thing anytime soon)
It’s all a lie, fed to the masses (aka religion) to shut us the fVck up while they replace our jobs and our will to live.
I say we go back to scratching stuff on bark.
Old lady rant over.
I’ll say something nice: both of her looks were absolutely fabulous.
I still find it interesting the actresses that this “Don’t fight AI’ script is coming from. They are all very established with huge portfolios of work. I still think deep down they are very rich people who believe that their images can be used in AI, so they can get paid even more money that they don’t need while not having to work.
This is the answer. They’re looking at what Lucasfilm did with AI for Mark Hamill in The Mandalorian and thinking, “I can work – young and beautiful – forever.”
Ai is the new rich folks toy that they’re all going to rush to “get in on”. I think its the new crypto currency and seeing how people are becoming more and more aware of that we’re being spied on . I honestly don’t think it’s going to work out the way THEY keep trying to make it.
I think folks need to come to terms with the fact that most of these celebs are vapid, not very bright, privileged and don’t actually care about anything and anyone outside of their bubble. I came to that realization awhile ago and it’s made me stop expecting much from any of them. So I am not disappointed. I am not surprised. This is on brand for someone who has spent 95% of their lives as a Hollywood star. She has no concept of reality.
While her verbiage is poppycock, the idea of not resisting being an option is spot on. I think we need to fight to contain it, set measurable boundaries, and tax the hell out of these AI companies. However, there is no closing the pandora’s box now.
What I know, with ties to one of the largest companies that has been given access to one of the largest AI agents to test on our security systems, it wrecked us and we are known for having the tightest security systems in our industry. I can’t go into any other details other than I am not in the tech industry per se, but one that uses the tech.
After seeing what it can do, and what we are going to have to do to adapt, I assure you, there is no going back. And it will not be just a one-time change, but rather the new standard to deal with how fast it evolves is already mind-boggling. We have not even wrapped our collective heads around what we have to do immediately. The scope is so far reaching. We are scrambling, and the company is not one known for taking action like that.
There is no room for idealistic rhetoric. I’ve seen what is already here, and the results, if left unchecked, will be cataclysmic.
Okay, but needing to fight to contain it and set boundaries is a form of resistance. That’s part of why her answer was confusing.
Exactly. Other countries and the EU are regulating it and putting massive boundaries in place – we are not.
Demi, you are no Sarah Connor
She should put on 10 lbs, will make her look younger, don’t know why Hollywood doesn’t seem to know this. It’s been face or body, they kick ass in a bikini in their 50’s but choose surgery for the face. rarely works, then they just look weird and immobile.
It’s crazy to me that people who have a big plataform like Demi aren’t yelling from the rooftops about regulating AI, but her vague pro AI answers, like Reese’s and Sandra’s, tell everything we need to know. It probably won’t take their jobs yet and, of course, they have their money and are set for life. What exactly is a beautiful aspect of using AI? And of course, nothing about the devasting enviromental damage it causes. This along with no social media regulation is another failure of society. Also, it wasn’t inevitable. People could just have…not used it. But they did and now some people are even training it to replace them. Not Demi though. She’s living her best life in Cannes while people are losing their jobs and cities are being poisoned with data centers.
She sat next to Stellan and looked hyper active.. He remained his usual droll witty self ❤️
Ive never been a fan of “resistance is futile.” It’s so offensive, these answers. All the effort to make us think we have no choice shows that, clearly, we have every choice and opportunity to stop/curtail it.
Dr McMilllan Cottom puts this far more eloquently, but whenever these oligarchs push something this hard, it’s not settled. If we do nothing, we make it easier for them. And I don’t think any of us is in the mood to make lives easier for oligarchs.
Says the multimillionaire who doesn’t have a data center being built in her Brentwood back yard. Says the multimillionaire who doesn’t turn on her water and see nothing coming out of the faucet. Like towns in West Virginia and Texas. Actors need to STFU about this.
What has she done to herself!?! It’s like she is incapable of fully closing her mouth. I’m so sick of celebs shilling things; I saw a commercial on Tubi the other day and SMG was shilling some game or puzzle app. SMH.
Ameerah M, best comment of the day. “Comply and you will be safe” is the mantra and lie of the whole Trump administration.
Demi went from GI Jane to letting herself be used and abused by Ashton Kutcher. Spent years telling us how together she was as a follower of Kabbalah and Deepak Chopra. Now she is telling us to get on board the AI train or get left behind. I will take the latter.