no roles for older women

old lady

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Don't you hate it that there are no roles for older women or middle aged women in the movies? :mad:
 
Not really. I'm old. I don't want to look at other old people. LOL!
 
There aren't? I guess Judi Dench, Meryl Streep, Diane Lane, and plenty of others didn't get that memo.
 
Shirley MacLaine just came out with a movie playing CoCo Chanel.

Helen Mirren won the Oscar last year.

One of the women in Sex and the City celebrated her 50th birthday.

Julianne Moore's film Blindness is set to open.

Emma Thompson just did a remake of Brideshead Revisited.

Maggie Smith, while battling breast cancer, is still making the Harry Potter films.


While not movies, Sally Field, won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
for: Brothers & Sisters last year and was nominated again this year.

Glenn Close won the Emmy this year, instead, for Damages.

Cloris Leachman, at 82, beat out 27 year old, Kim Kardashian last week, to continue to dance tonight in Dancing With the Stars.

According to the IMdb.com, Angela Landbury, Julie Christie, Julie Andrews and Vanessa Redgrave all are in upcoming movies. Actually Vanessa is scheduled for 5.
 

That's one of the things I loved about "Mamma Mia" -- s e x y, fun-loving older women!

edited to add: It's no coincidence that the Golden Girls still runs numerous times a day, 20 years after the show was on the air! The world loves older women -- and I hope Hollywood gets better and better at recognizing that.
 
That we can name exatly what these women have all recently done is proof that there is less for this demographic than others. I can't even name the young dames in films, there are so many of them. As for the young guys, I don't even know where to begin, their faces are a blur. I think there's a shortage for older men too. Mamma Mia was a great vehicle for the over 50 set!
 
Just saw Mama Mia. Christine Baranski & Julie Walters are excellent. :thumbsup2 Didn't care overall for the quality of all the singers in the film, (I also saw it on Broadway,) but it was a fun movie otherwise. party:
 
It's not just older women. There also seem to be few roles for bigger gals too. If you're not a size 0, then I guess you can forget it?:confused3
 
There aren't? I guess Judi Dench, Meryl Streep, Diane Lane, and plenty of others didn't get that memo.

Shirley MacLaine just came out with a movie playing CoCo Chanel.

Helen Mirren won the Oscar last year.

One of the women in Sex and the City celebrated her 50th birthday.

Julianne Moore's film Blindness is set to open.

Emma Thompson just did a remake of Brideshead Revisited.

Maggie Smith, while battling breast cancer, is still making the Harry Potter films.


While not movies, Sally Field, won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
for: Brothers & Sisters last year and was nominated again this year.

Glenn Close won the Emmy this year, instead, for Damages.

Cloris Leachman, at 82, beat out 27 year old, Kim Kardashian last week, to continue to dance tonight in Dancing With the Stars.

According to the IMdb.com, Angela Landbury, Julie Christie, Julie Andrews and Vanessa Redgrave all are in upcoming movies. Actually Vanessa is scheduled for 5.

That we can name exatly what these women have all recently done is proof that there is less for this demographic than others. I can't even name the young dames in films, there are so many of them. As for the young guys, I don't even know where to begin, their faces are a blur. I think there's a shortage for older men too. Mamma Mia was a great vehicle for the over 50 set!


The number of features that have older women as their stars is negligible compared to the number of films that are starring vehicles for the teenage or even just the under 30 set. I'm not sure about television's demographics, but how many TV shows have as their main character a woman 50 or older?
In theatricals producers & the money men are unwilling to bankroll female performers to the same extent that they are willing to bankroll their male counterparts. And women of the same ages are simply not paid on the same scale as Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood et al. Those women named upthread are at least *working* but I know that they are paid much less than the men of their generation or older. Meryl Streep's last reported salary was $5 million, her male co-star in "Mamma Mia"? Pierce Brosnan's last reported salary was $16,500, 000. Btw, Stallone's last reported payday was $20 million and Ford's was $25 million. [All the financials are from IMDbPro.com.]
I was actually shocked that Spielberg brought back Karen Allen for the latest Indiana Jones movie. The historical trend is usually to match up male stars as they age with progressively younger woman co-stars. And what's really funny is that Karen Allen seems like an age counterpart...but at 57 she is still 9 years younger than Ford's 66.
Something else I noticed....many of the older women stars mentioned by other posters are BRITISH - Mirren, Dench, Lansbury, Maggie Smith, Julie Christie. In my opinion, their culture seems to be willing to utilise older women in their TV shows & films to a much greater extent than Hollywood where plastic surgery reigns supreme.

In the entertainment/acting world (plays, TV, films, Internet, games, etc), there are more women going for fewer roles and fewer men having access to more roles. Female performers of all ages have more competition than men. Women are at a disadvantage from the start.

agnes!
 
I think there are lots of roles for older women in the movies. I was just watching a special about it the other day. Look at Diane Lane, Diane Keaton, Helen Mirren, Judy Dench, Sally Field, Kim Catrall, etc etc etc
 
It's not just older women. There also seem to be few roles for bigger gals too. If you're not a size 0, then I guess you can forget it?:confused3

Here's another thought. Have you ever noticed that it's more acceptable for African-American actresses to be 'abundant', but not for their white counterparts? Right now I can only think of one white woman star (of any magnitude) who isn't Hollywood-thin and that's Camryn Mannheim.

agnes!
 
Nia Vardalos (My Big fat Greek Wedding) is here filming her new movie. She is soooo skinny now. She could use some meat on her bones. :rolleyes:
 










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