When The First Wives Club said, "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy," it was a joke in 1996. Today, it’s outdated. The modern mature woman in cinema is all three simultaneously. She is the babe (think at 55 in Magic Mike’s Last Dance ), the district attorney ( Julianna Margulies ), and the driver.
, of course, was the outlier—a titan who played a formidable fashion editor in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) at 57 and a punk-rock, singing prime minister in Mamma Mia! (2008) at 59. But she was the exception that proved the rule. The real change came from a chorus of voices. YinyLeon - Big Ass MILF gets pounded hard while...
That is the new creed of the mature woman in cinema: she will take the roles, create the roles, and define the roles on her own terms. The ingenue had her century. Now, the matriarch, the warrior, the lover, and the fool are taking their final bow—and it’s only the second act. When The First Wives Club said, "There are