People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.
I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.
People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.
I want to play a role of a 24-year-old woman, not 17-year-old girls. So I have picked a couple of films like 'Butter' to show that. And it's perfectly fine not to do anything for a year if I don't find the right thing.
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.
People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.