To understand how revolutionary the current moment is, we must look at the "wasteland" of the 1990s and early 2000s. In 1990, when Shirley MacLaine was 56, she starred in Postcards from the Edge . She was brilliant, but she was the exception. The general rule was defined by a study from San Diego State University which found that in the top-grossing films of 2019—thirty years later—only 32% of speaking characters were female, and the majority were under 40.
Major wins for stars like Demi Moore and nominations for Isabella Rossellini signal that the industry is starting to find the aging woman "bankable" rather than just a liability. mom milf mature tube hot