Demi Moore showcased her beloved pooch Pilaf while sporting a body sling at the Crate & Barrel x Brigette Romanek furniture launch in California on Thursday.

The American actress, 62, who recently missed out on the Leading Actress BAFTA gong, looked elated as she strapped her micro-Chihuahua in a black sling wrapped around her chest.

Pilaf was seen sticking his tongue out throughout the glitzy evening as he turned heads in a little black jumper.

Meanwhile Demi, who is now back in the US after spending a week in the UK, cut a casual look for the outing as she wore a blue and white striped shirt layered under a grey knitted jumper.

She paired her shirt with a pair of grey loose-fitting jeans and white heeled-leather boots.

To finish her relaxed look, Demi styled her long raven tresses into a straightened middle parting.

Demi Moore, 62, carried her beloved pooch Pilaf while sporting a body sling at the Crate & Barrel x Brigette Romanek launch in California on Thursday 

The American actress, who recently missed out on the Leading Actress BAFTAs gong, looked elated as she strapped her micro-Chihuahua in a black sling wrapped around her chest

Demi spent the last week in the UK, where she was nominated for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance.

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The Hollywood star, who picked up her first acting accolade ever at the Globes for her role in Substance, was nominated for Leading Actress along with Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo, 38, and Saoirse Ronan, 30, for the Outrun.

The Substance takes a very graphic approach to speaking truth to power as it tells the story of Elisabeth, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show.

Unceremoniously sacked as she hits her 50th birthday, Elisabeth discovers a black-market drug which can create a ‘younger, more beautiful, more perfect’ version of its user.

The drug’s strict conditions are gruesome however, and Elisabeth’s need for youth to sustain her career talks directly to Hollywood’s abandoning of actresses as they age. 

But it’s The Substance’s ‘deliciously unhinged and dread-inducing’ levels of gore that have really commanded the critics’ attention, with one describing it as ‘a shocking ᴀssault on the senses’.

The film sees Elisabeth dealt a devastating blow on her birthday when she is fired by ruthless executive, played by Dennis Quaid.

Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Elisabeth learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to turn the user into a ‘younger, more beautiful, more perfect’ version of them self. 

Pilaf was seen sticking his tongue out throughout the glitzy evening as he turned heads in a little black jumper

Meanwhile Demi, who is now back in the US after spending a week in the UK, cut a casual look for the outing as she wore a blue and white striped shirt layered under a grey knitted jumper

She paired her shirt with a pair of grey loose-fitting jeans and white heeled-leather boots (pictured L to R: designer Brigette Romanek, Demi , and singer Paulette McWilliams)

To finish her relaxed look, Demi styled her long raven tresses into a straightened middle part (pictured with florist Eric Buterbaugh)

Demi spent the last week in the UK, where she was nominated for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle in The Substance (pictured)

Though Elisabeth initially tosses the phone number in the bin, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.

The one rule to follow is that Elisabeth and her better self Sue (Margaret Qualley) must trade places every seven days. 

So for one week at a time, she is forced again to live as her 50-year-old self. 

But the allure of youth and a made-for-TV ʙuтт proves too strong to resist that she tests the boundaries to see what the worst that can happen is if she squeezes an extra day or two in.

The Evening Standard’s Nick Howells described it as the ‘best and maddest film of the year so far’ as he gave it five stars. 

‘Caveat: as long as you like a full portion of body horror and are happy to be spattered head to toe in blood and mutant body parts,’ he wrote.

But despite her BAFTA snub, Demi’s film did win a Golden Globe – her first ever – for her critically-acclaimed performance in the body horror film.

She is also up for her first-ever Oscar, which is set to take place on March 2 – and will be hosted by comedian and TV personality, Conan O’Brien.

The Substance: The critics’ thoughts 

Evening Standard

Nick Howells writes: ‘The Substance is the best and maddest film of the year (so far). Caveat: as long as you like a full portion of body horror and are happy to be spattered head to toe in blood and mutant body parts.

‘It all climaxes way beyond where you could dare imagine it might end, in a riotously hilarious torrent of blood the likes of which you might never have witnessed before.

‘A sledgehammer parable for the Ozempic generation, The Substance, with all confidence, is an instant classic.’

The Independent

Clarisse Loughrey writes: ‘The Substance’s final stretch descends into a full-blown, blood-fountain homage to gross-out cult classics like Brian Yuzna’s 1989 horror film Society. 

‘It turns the body into a public spectacle and invites the audience in, a little too eagerly, to gawk at what has elsewhere been presented as such intimate, secret disgust. 

Daily Mail  

Brian Viner writes: ‘There’s plenty of popping in The Substance. Popping, in fact, might be the least of it, alongside snapping, bursting, oozing and squelching, in a grotesque body-horror satire that isn’t for the squeamish but might be for the ticklish, if you can find the funny side.

‘Yet for all its dystopian grisliness, Oscar Wilde would have recognised this story, which echoes The Picture Of Dorian Gray, but of course has particular resonance in today’s looks-obsessed society.’

Financial Times

Danny Leigh writes: ‘The longer the movie plays, the more you find other flaws. How gross beauty standards are, we are told, while for reasons that would be a spoiler, also being invited to shudder at elderly women’s bodies.

‘A satire of the male gaze this filled with young women twerking, they said, can look a lot like what it is meant to be satirising.’

AP

Krysta Fauria writes: ‘The film’s deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.’

‘What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie.’

RTE 

Bren Murphy writes: ‘Coralie Fargeat, the French director of 2017’s powerfully violent Revenge, returns with The Substance, and when it comes to delivering more shocking visceral images with a message, she’s not holding back.

‘Darkly funny, intense, and extremely graphic, this is a shocking ᴀssault on the senses, in a good way – on second thoughts, in a masterful way.’