Overview
- In an Entertainment Tonight interview, Kutcher said he was “so proud” of Moore and that she “killed it” in The Substance.
- He was responding to comparisons between his new series and Moore’s film, which both center on appearance-altering treatments within body-horror stories.
- The Beauty casts Kutcher as a secretive tech billionaire behind a so-called miracle drug with deadly consequences, alongside Evan Peters, Rebecca Hall, Anthony Ramos and Jeremy Pope.
- Moore’s performance in The Substance won Golden Globe, Critics Choice and SAG awards in 2025 and earned her first Academy Award nomination.
- Kutcher contextualized both projects by noting cosmetic enhancement’s growing social acceptance over the past two decades and the potential for unintended consequences.