Demi Moore’s Comments About Tom Cruise’s Apparent Reaction To Her Pregnancy On “A Few Good Men” Tell Us A Lot About How Hollywood Has Changed, So Here’s What She Said
I don’t doubt you’ve heard of the iconic movie A Few Good Men. It was directed by Rob Reiner, came out in 1992, and had a pretty star-studded cast that included Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, and Tom Cruise. /uploads/allimg/2025/10/7405166280337274032.jpg©Columbia Pictures/Courtesy Everett CollectionIf you need a reminder, Demi and Tom played Lieutenant Commander Joanne Galloway and Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, who team up to defend two Marines accused of murdering a fellow Marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The film is based on Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 play of the same name. /uploads/allimg/2025/10/1447407622212488814.jpgColumbia Pictures /Courtesy Everett Collection
To this day, A Few Good Men remains among Demi and Tom’s most beloved performances. However, it sounds like their early days working together on the project were maybe a little awkward. Jeff Kravitz / Getty Images
Pre-production on the movie began in 1991, at which point, Demi was nearly eight months pregnant with her second child with her then-husband, Bruce Willis. Ron Galella, Ltd. / Getty Images
Bruce and Demi, who split in 1998, share three daughters: Rumer, Scout, and Tallulah.
Speaking as part of a Q&A at the New Yorker Festival over the weekend, Demi speculated that her pregnancy made Tom slightly uncomfortable when they first started reading lines together. “I think Tom was quite embarrassed,” Demi recalled, per People. Patrick Mcmullan / Getty Images
For her part, Demi said she “actually felt okay about” being pregnant while working. “I was moving around, though, right?” she remembered. “But I could tell he felt that it was a bit awkward.”
At the time, Tom was married to Nicole Kidman. Nicole has previously said that she wanted to have kids with Tom “from the minute” they tied the knot in 1990. Sadly, Nicole experienced an ectopic pregnancy early in their marriage; however, they went on to adopt two children, Isabella and Connor, in 1993 and 1995, respectively. Tom also welcomed a biological daughter, Suri, with Katie Holmes in 2006. Jim Smeal / Getty Images
Demi didn’t go into much more detail about Tom’s behavior around her, but she did speculate that his apparent discomfort may have stemmed from the fact that it was pretty rare to have a pregnant actor on set at that time. She also said that not many of their peers were having children at this point, likely due to the major pressures that came with balancing a career and parenting. Craig Barritt / Getty Images
“It\“s one of the many things, for me, that I just felt didn\“t make sense. And so I challenged that to say, you know, ‘Why not? Why can\“t you have both?’” she said. “But with that, I think, came a lot of pressure I put on myself to, in a sense, prove that it was possible.”
In hindsight, Demi said that her involvement in the project left her feeling somewhat overstretched as she navigated the arrival of her second child, Scout LaRue Willis, who was born in July 1991. “I look back at that time now, and I go, ‘What the fuck was I thinking?’ And what was I even trying to prove?” she said. “But it wasn\“t as supported as it is today. You know, to be breastfeeding and then blocking and rehearsing a scene.” Getty Images / Getty Images
Tom hasn’t commented on this, but we’ve contacted his representative. Whatever the case, it’s interesting to consider what Demi said about the lack of pregnant women on movie sets and how much that has changed in the past 30+ years. LMK your thoughts in the comments!
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