In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.
There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that's not right.
There is this thing in America where actresses reach 40 and go mad. The film industry wants all these young people.
Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.
In Spain, actresses work until they are old. That's my plan.
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?
The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older.
You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?
Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'