Perhaps British TV companies don't want women my age on screen. I don't know.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.
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.
The whole tone now of TV is under 35 and directed toward males.
It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema.
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.
We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.
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?
It's absurd: half the movie audience are women, but Hollywood bosses are still aiming for men who are 20.
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.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
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