Her victory in the category for best female actor in a musical or comedy was an upset, and even Moore said she was taken aback. “I really wasn’t expecting that,” she said. “I’m just in shock right now. I’ve been doing this a long time, like over 45 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor.
Maybe I’d done what I was supposed to do.” While semiretired, and rarely appearing onscreen, she said The Substance became a lifeline that pulled her out of it. “As I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance. And the universe told me, ‘You’re not done.