That’s a weird take. A young person would not be able to play and old person’s role and vice versa.
Everybody who’s managed to remember that they saw the new Avatar movies think it’s weird af to have Sigourney Weaver play a teenage girl who has a teenaged love interest.
In acting there is always room for people of every age and that is how it should be. The issue here is that women over 60 aren’t having that many stories told about them compared to men of the same age.
That is a problem, especially because men over 60 in films will usually have love interests who are a minimum of 20 years their junior and usually way out of their league.
You literally never see the reverse of that because it isn’t really socially accepted for women to age, be ugly or score hot young guys in films. The few times I can remember it being done in movies, it’s either been a joke or framed as gross and creepy.
One of the only movies I can remember that actually challenged this entire thing was Something’s Gotta Give with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton which is about an old playboy who falls in love with his girlfriend’s mother whom in turn is having a situationship with his young doctor (played by non other but Keanu Reeves). It was one of my favourite comfort movies as a teen and still is. It isn’t afraid to confront the concept of aging and why maybe it’s not so bad to be with someone your own age (granted, Nicholson is still 9 years older than Keaton, but it’s at least something). It’s not a perfect movie, but I do think it did something pretty cool with the romantic comedy genre that I hadn’t really seen before.
I’m far from the first person to shake my fist at the sky and bitch and moan about sexism in media, but there definitely are areas that deserve a critical eye and the question “why is that?”
Besides, I think more women over 60 deserve to have stories told about them and that those roles aren’t all given to Meryl Streep.
That’s a weird take. A young person would not be able to play and old person’s role and vice versa.
Everybody who’s managed to remember that they saw the new Avatar movies think it’s weird af to have Sigourney Weaver play a teenage girl who has a teenaged love interest.
In acting there is always room for people of every age and that is how it should be. The issue here is that women over 60 aren’t having that many stories told about them compared to men of the same age.
That is a problem, especially because men over 60 in films will usually have love interests who are a minimum of 20 years their junior and usually way out of their league.
You literally never see the reverse of that because it isn’t really socially accepted for women to age, be ugly or score hot young guys in films. The few times I can remember it being done in movies, it’s either been a joke or framed as gross and creepy.
One of the only movies I can remember that actually challenged this entire thing was Something’s Gotta Give with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton which is about an old playboy who falls in love with his girlfriend’s mother whom in turn is having a situationship with his young doctor (played by non other but Keanu Reeves). It was one of my favourite comfort movies as a teen and still is. It isn’t afraid to confront the concept of aging and why maybe it’s not so bad to be with someone your own age (granted, Nicholson is still 9 years older than Keaton, but it’s at least something). It’s not a perfect movie, but I do think it did something pretty cool with the romantic comedy genre that I hadn’t really seen before.
I’m far from the first person to shake my fist at the sky and bitch and moan about sexism in media, but there definitely are areas that deserve a critical eye and the question “why is that?”
Besides, I think more women over 60 deserve to have stories told about them and that those roles aren’t all given to Meryl Streep.