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Trump's political campaign has already threatened legal action over the new movie, aptly titled The Apprentice.
The Substance has been one of the biggest talking points of the Cannes Film Festival this year.
In The Substance, Demi plays an aging celebrity who resorts to a fictional drug to clone herself as a younger, prettier version.
The Trump campaign branded the movie "garbage" and said it "doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin".
The cute moment came just weeks after the Oscar winner said it would be “nice” if people began calling her by her actual name.
The French competition has a long history of overlooking women in film.
“I put on the flip-flops. And then everybody’s like, ‘What a statement! Wow!’”
The actor belatedly praised her Much Ado About Nothing co-stars Keanu and Robert Sean Leonard for their handiwork at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
"Nice try!" the actor responded to claims that her husband was involved in an altercation on the red carpet for "Asteroid City."
In recent years, female attendees have pushed back against the idea that they must wear heels to the French film festival.