As a native of Roswell, N.M., Demi Moore has a lot of thoughts about extraterrestrials. All of which she was happy to share with Stephen Colbert, much to his — and our — amusement.
During an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in support of her role on the series Landman, Moore told the host that she learned recently of his “fascination with aliens,” which she thought was perfect because her own children often tell her “they think I’m part alien.”
When Colbert asked why her daughters — Tallulah, 31, Rumer, 37, and Scout, 34 — think that about her, Moore replied, “I don’t know, maybe it’s just because I was born in Roswell.”
The town, of course, is most famous for the 1947 “Roswell Incident,” when the debris of a crashed military balloon was recovered, fueling decades of conspiracy theories of aliens, UFOs, and a rumored crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Roswell has since leaned into its identity, with annual events such as the UFO Festival, the opening of the International UFO Museum, and other related tourist attractions.
When Colbert first brought up the topic to Moore, she said, “Something definitely happened. But when I was a kid, it was never spoken about. Never. It just was not ever ever talked about, not even in passing. It was as if it was a secret.”
She added that when Hollywood came calling, with documentaries and the popular WB show, Roswell, now all of a sudden in town, “there was a museum, and now there’s a somewhat comprehensive museum discussing how they shut all communication down about it.”
When Colbert pressed her on what she meant when she said something definitely happened, she demurred, “I don’t know. Well, you know, the largest landing strip in America is in Roswell, so there’s a lot of testing that goes on.”
When she didn’t elaborate further, Colbert teased, “Legally, you can’t say anything or they’ll take you out,” to which she joked back, “It’s possible.”
Moore then turned the tables on the late-night host, asking what his fascination with aliens is. “What is not to be fascinated about?” he replied. “The possibility there are aliens, or a branch of the military that’s been putting out these videos of unexplainable pill-shaped things that go into the water and come out and go from like 0 to 6,000 miles an hour with absolutely no g-force impact — I mean, what? I am not the one with the problem.”
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Demi Moore and Stephen Colbert on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’
Moore shared with Colbert that she is taking her own alien fascination to the big screen with her upcoming film Strange Arrivals, which is based on the true story of Betty and Barney Hill’s alleged alien abduction. Colman Domingo will play Barney, and Moore will play Betty.
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