Demi Moore Thinks Tom Cruise Was ‘Embarrassed’ by Her Pregnancy When They Worked on A Few Good Men: ‘It Was a Bit Awkward’

Demi Moore is recalling working with Tom Cruise on A Few Good Men — and why she thinks the actor may have been “embarrassed” by her pregnancy during preproduction.

Speaking as part of an Oct. 25 Q&A with Jia Tolentino at the New Yorker Festival, the actress, 62, said she was nearly eight months pregnant when she began to read lines for the film alongside director Rob Reiner and costar Cruise, 63.

“I think Tom was quite embarrassed,” Moore — who was pregnant at the time with her second child, Scout Willis — recalled. “I actually felt okay about it. I was moving around, though, right? But I could tell he felt that it was a bit awkward.”

Moore, also a mom to daughters Rumer Willis and Tallulah Willis with ex-husband Bruce Willis, further explained that she thinks Cruise may have potentially been uncomfortable, given that not many of their Hollywood peers were having children at the time, due to what she said was the pressure to choose between pursuing a career and being a mother.

“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.”

PEOPLE reached out to a representative for Cruise for comment.

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A Few Good Men, based on Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 play of the same name, follows two U.S. Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine.

Moore admitted that she became “a bit of an overachiever” in proving that she could gracefully manage motherhood with an acting career.

“I look back at that time now, and I go, ‘What the f— was I thinking?’ And what was I even trying to prove? But it wasn’t as supported as it is today,” the star said. “You know, to be breastfeeding and then blocking and rehearsing a scene.”