At 38, Liv Tyler is feeling the effects of Hollywood ageism.
In a new interview with More magazine, she opens about reaching her late 30s as a female actor in the industry.
“38 is a crazy number. It’s not fun when you see things start to change,” she said, according to Page Six. “When you’re in your teens or 20s, there is an abundance of ingénue parts which are exciting to play. But at [my age], you’re usually the wife or the girlfriend, a sort of second-class citizen. There are more interesting roles for women when they get a bit older.”
Her comments echo those recently made by Anne Hathaway, who, at 32, has already noticed a change in the way she's cast.
"When I was in my early 20s, parts would be written for women in their 50s and I would get them," Hathaway told Glamour UK. "And now I'm in my early 30s and I'm like, 'Why did that 24-year-old get that part?' I was that 24-year-old once, I can't be upset about it, it's the way things are. All I can do right now is think that thankfully you have built up perhaps a little bit of cachet and can tell stories that interest you and if people go to see them, you'll be allowed to make more."
As Vulture noted in a piece analyzing age trends in rom-coms, "male movie stars are allowed to age into their 40s, 50s, and even 60s, while the ages of their female love interests remain firmly on one side of the big 4-0."
Cool moves, Hollywood!
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