For decades, the arithmetic of Hollywood was brutally simple: a man’s career arc stretched for decades, while a woman’s had an expiration date printed somewhere around her 40th birthday. The industry worshipped the ingénue—the wide-eyed, pliable young woman whose primary narrative function was to be looked at or to serve as a catalyst for a male protagonist’s journey. Once a woman over 40 dared to show a wrinkle, a grey hair, or a desire that wasn’t purely maternal, she was relegated to the dusty shelves of "character actress" or, worse, invisibility.
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