I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.
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It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.
As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.
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.
I only seem to date younger women.
When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine. Hopefully it is improving, and there are female TV executives now who are championing women of all ages in leading roles. But I'm not counting on it.
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?
I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.
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