Demi Moore: Tom Cruise Was 'Embarrassed' by My Pregnancy on 'A Few Good Men' Set, Calling It 'A Bit Awkward'

Actress Demi Moore has recently published an honest preproduction story of her 1992 movie A Few Good Men, where co-star Tom Cruise appeared uneasy about her advanced pregnancy state. During a public event on October 25, 2025, Moore revealed that she was nearly eight months pregnant with her daughter Scout Willis when she began line readings for the legal drama.

"I think Tom was quite embarrassed," the actress revealed, continuing, "I didn't mind it actually. but I could sense he did feel that it was a bit awkward." Moore is 62 today. She surmised Cruise's reaction was reflective of the culture of early 1990s Hollywood, when it was very unusual for a lead actress in a big-budget film to be pregnant. She added that women back then were under tremendous pressure to make a choice between career and childbearing.

Moore saw her choice of working during pregnancy as a way of challenging this convention, asking, "Why not? Why can't you do both?" Such drive, however, led to her putting "a lot of pressure" on herself to "prove that it was possible." Moore admitted to being an "overachiever" during this period, recalling the difficulty of breastfeeding and trimming scenes soon after giving birth. She expressed a modern state of incredulity at having acted in this way, stating, "I look back at that time now, and I go, 'What the f*** was I thinking?'"

The actress, who played Navy lawyer Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, went to extreme lengths to get in shape for her naval uniform role. She famously completed a two-and-a-half-hour hike, a 24-mile bike ride, and danced at a reggae club when her water broke and gave birth to her daughter two-and-a-half weeks premature. Moore concluded by noting that the business has progressed a long way and now provides far greater support to working mothers than it did three decades ago.