It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fighting the ageing process just doesn't work. I think that actresses, ultimately, are responsible for the faces we give to women.
Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
There are still movies where females are just there to be cool, or they are there to lambaste their husbands and scold. But female comedy characters are changing for the better.
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.
I got old the way that women who aren't actresses grow old.
There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.
Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them.
What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.
The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.