Anne Hathaway: ‘I Was Warned That My Career Would Fall Off a Cliff at the Age of 35,’ Which ‘A Lot of Women Face’
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Anne Hathaway: ‘I Was Warned That My Career Would Fall Off a Cliff at the Age of 35,’ Which ‘A Lot of Women Face’
by laterdude
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She’s still hot so her career will be alive and well for quite some time.
I think Hollywood has changed so much. As much as I love a lot of actors and actresses in their early days, I think we see a lot of them coming in to their own after 35, and see remarkable performances unseen before. It’s always amazing to see really good actors that have aged come back and just blow away audiences.
Since the pandemic, I’ve watched tons of European crime dramas, and holy smokes the acting ability a lot of those actors have is far better than what I was expecting. They don’t cast based off of looks, they cast off of ability. Hopefully that momentum continues to Hollywood.
No hate to her, but… didn’t her career fall off a cliff like 10 years ago? With the Hathahaters movement? Again, no hate to her – I don’t agree with the hate campaign that was made against her. I just feel like she hasn’t been very relevant in almost 10 years, since Les Mis. She’s having a fashion moment right now, but I still can’t name any major movies she’s been in for the last several years.
That’ll no doubt go tremendously well with countless actors that still do not have a career at the age of 35.
Not a fan of her acting.
She’s right, and this is a concern
AND…
One thing I have thought about on this issue, is that these young and beautiful actresses got many jobs in the first place because the older women were pushed aside. Now that they’re the older women, they see a problem with it.
There are a finite number of acting jobs, and someone has to not get the job.
Why should a presumably wealthy actress in her 30s be able to hold onto high paying jobs as long as they want?
Note that there’s absolutely a problem with ageism and sexism, and everyone should work on correcting that, it’s just that I never heard the topic from that perspective. Somewhere, there’s the next Anne Hathaway looking for a job.
I think this is just pandering….
This a true problem even in Music. I do remember someone saying to have a long career in Hollywood as a female, you should play mothers when still young.
I always feel this stuff is a little disingenuous as so many actors start acting as kids. Like what other profession can you make 6 figures as a kid and parlay that into a career?
The odds of making it period are low, but most roles go to younger actors and those that parents can afford to push them as child actors/stars have a major leg up.
I’ve noticed there’s a weird thing where career options seem to narrow for women in a certain in between age phase also. There’s a middle aged range where women don’t seem cast as much and Hollywood reaches for both younger and older women while avoiding age appropriate casting aside from a small group who don’t seem to hit this age barrier because they’re too talented, or play by the rules enough etc
Feel like this is kinda what Reese Witherspoon talked about when she was doing a bunch of interviews about getting into production and stuff
Most of them get so much work done during their 30s,they have this uncanny valley look by 40. Quite hard to cast them for anything but some niche horror movies.
*Shakes head in Jennifer Connelly*
She’s too good looking for that to happen. She just has to learn that at a certain age, most older actors transition to playing the parent instead of the kid at some point. If you still wanna play the hip young person, after 35, you’re probably not gonna get that role. But for someone like her that’s done drama and comedy as well as action and everything else, why would there have been a problem?
Shockingly the hot twenty something action starlet roles get shifted to actresses in their twenties? Movies are about looks, sorry grandma.