The former TopGun star recently called out Hollywood’s impossible standards—and she's in good company
, saying she’s managed to narrowly avoid this pitfall because she’s more of a character actor. “We’re constantly watching films where older men have wonderful roles and older women really don’t,” the then 59-year-old said. “But I’m a character actor, don’t forget. If you’ve got form and you’re a character actor, you’re much better off because you’re not fighting the way you once looked.”
Some female stars prefer to leave the business rather than sticking it out for that long, however. In the 1980s,costarring alongsideand Anne Bancroft. But she eventually stopped acting to raise her children. “I didn’t allow myself to miss it,” she toldabout leaving the industry. “In those days, the females [were] kind of the fire hydrant that all the men wanted to prove themselves on. You’d get hit on a lot.
It’s that kind of representation older women often have to fight for. When cast as the series lead inpushed to have her character, Annalise Keating, portray raw sensuality onscreen, because roles of that nature tend to desexualize women of a certain age and size.
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