Demi Moore dishes on her 1 request for ‘Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle' bikini scene

New York Post

14-05-2025

The Angels are back.
Demi Moore, 62, joined Drew Barrymore on 'The Drew Barrymore Show' this week to discuss the pair's 2003 film, 'Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.'
While they both remembered the 'Charlie's Angels' sequel fondly, Moore revealed that she had a request for one scene in particular – and it ended up being one of the movie's most iconic shots.
8 Demi Moore opened up about her iconic 'Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle' bikini scene on Tuesday, May 13, during an appearance on 'The Drew Barrymore Show.'
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8 Moore as Madison Lee in the 2003 'Charlie's Angels' sequel.
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'All I remember is begging them not to shoot my butt,' the 'G.I. Jane' actress dished regarding her now-famous bikini scene. 'I don't know why that was my obsession.'
Plus, the Golden Globe-winning actress revealed that she had less than one month to prepare for the role.
'You know, he called me to start shooting in three-and-a-half weeks,' she recalled of the movie's director, Joseph McGinty Nichol. 'And I had no time to think about what I looked like, which was almost better.'
8 Moore, pictured here with Cameron Diaz's character, insisted that she not be filmed from behind during the famous scene.
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8 Barrymore also starred in the 2003 blockbuster with Moore, Diaz and Lucy Liu.
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Barrymore couldn't believe that her co-star was able to 'show up' like she did with only a three-week's notice.
'No one can do in three weeks what you showed up with. So you were clearly good to go,' Barrymore, 50, gushed. 'Like there's no magic wand that gets you to that in three weeks.'
'I've done a three-week diet,' she added. 'I didn't end up there.'
8 The 'Substance' actress at the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in February.
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Moore also discussed how 'Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle' was her first movie back after taking a break to be with her daughters.
She shares Rumer, 36, Scout, 33, and Tallulah, 31, with ex-husband Bruce Willis, and the three insisted that she 'had to do' the movie when she was offered the role more than 20 years ago.
'I had taken a break only to be with them,' Moore recalled. 'I stopped and was just with them until they finally were like, 'You have to do this movie. We love the first one. You have to do this movie. And please, aren't you going to ever work again?''
8 Moore in her most recent movie, 'The Substance.'
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Now, more than two decades since the blockbuster was released, the 'Substance' actress said it feels like it's been both forever and no time at all.
'Doesn't it feel in some ways like a lifetime and also like a flash?' she asked Barrymore.
Moore previously discussed her iconic bikini scene last year during a chat with Interview magazine.
8 Moore and Barrymore couldn't believe it's been more than 20 years since 'Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle' was released.
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She admitted that she struggled with her identity after starring in the beloved sequel to 'Charlie's Angels' – especially because she had just turned 40 and was not yet 'what they perceived as a mother.'
'I had done 'Charlie's Angels' and there was a lot of conversation around this scene in a bikini, and it was all very heightened, a lot of talk about how I looked,' Moore explained in August.
'I didn't feel like I didn't belong,' she added. 'It's more like I felt that feeling of, I'm not 20, I'm not 30, but I wasn't yet what they perceived as a mother.'
8 Moore at the Dolby Theatre for the Oscars on March 2.
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Moore appeared as Madison Lee in 'Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle,' a former Angel who worked independently as an intelligence agent with a hidden secret.
Barrymore, Lucy Liu, 56, and Cameron Diaz, 52, starred as the three core Angels: Dylan Sanders, Alex Munday and Natalie Cook, respectively.
John Forsythe, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 92, once again provided the voice of Charles 'Charlie' Townsend like he did in the original TV series and the first 'Charlie's Angels' film in 2000.