Demi Moore sat down with Howard Stern Wednesday and reminded us that it’s
often the “could have beens” that stay with us.
The star was
there to promote her new book, “Inside Out,” and shared a few things with
Stern, including that she beat herself up pretty badly about missing out on
the role of Charlie in “Top Gun.”
Instead, the part in the 1986 film went to Kelly McGillis.
Moore
chalked it up to “just the timing of things.
“I think the first
audition was great and the screen test, I shanked, I got in my head,” she
told Stern. “I think I just got nervous of the whole and I didn’t own
it.”
Seeing the film made her realize, Moore said, that she could
have done well in the role.
“But in my beating myself up, it then just reinforced the idea that I
didn’t think I was good enough,” she said.
One part she did land
was in “G.I. Jane,” for which she prepped by participating in actual Navy
SEAL training.
It was more than a little intense, she said, and she learned
that it wasn’t a great idea to take vitamins on an empty stomach and then
exercise.
“Haul a**, mile run straight out, me and 40 guys,” she
said. “And I like cross the finish line, literally take a right turn, puke
my guts out.”
