50 Posts About The ’80s That Show Parts Of Our Lives That Don’t Exist Anymore

Helen mirren has 17 acting credits in the past 5 years, Between 2022 and 2025 she's had a leading role in TWO extremely popular televisions series, 1923 and Mobland. She also has three forthcoming projects set to release. She was nominated for best actress oscar at 64 in "The last station" and got her first oscar win for "The queen" in 2007 at 61. Maggie smith's last oscar nomination was at 68. Meryl Streep has had Eight oscar nomination after hitting 60, 10 acting credits in the past 5 years (two of which were series) with 3 more set to release shortly. All 8 of Judi Dench's oscar nomination came after the age of 64, with her last being at age 87. 84 of her 140 acting credits came after the age of 60. No one said anything about being a "star", though all i mentioned (and more) absolutely are stars, who continue to be cast and maintain success. Don't try to move the goalpost.

It occured to me after my post that Mirren and Dench were poor choices for comparison by either of us as regards to young versus old. Hollywood (by which I mean, of course, the American film industry) paid them little attention when they were young, so naturally they fared better later in their career in US movies (the only type of movies my post referred to). Even later in their careers, many of the movies they made were not "Hollywood" (American) - the word I used in my post. So their non-American (non-"Hollywood") credits, which you include, are irrelevant to the statement I made. I am not aware of what goalposts you refer to, but whatever they are you seemed to have moved them all the way from California to England. Better examples of the effect of aging might have been actresses like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and others, huge Hollywood stars in the 1930s and 1940s but who had to take roles of a very different type and status in american films by the 1960s.

You started off with "hollywood doesn't hire women who age" Which i easily refuted, but then you argue they "weren't as in demand in their later years" again which i easily refuted. Which then becomes "oh but they were ignored when they were younger so naturally they fared better later in their careers" Also not true, everyone i mentioned worked steadily for 40 or 50 years, that they began to be increasingly celebrated as they aged further refutes your original point. As for Bette davis, joan crawford and all the rest....yeah, the past was rife with ignorance, bias and discrimination....and that fact has nothing to do with today beyond illustrating the fact that significant progress has been made. Awhile ago, meg ryan was held up as "evidence" of discrimination, when the reality was that a combination of a scandal (screwing around on her husband) and playing the same role for 20 years led to her popularity waning.

That she tried to solve that problem by having terrible plastic surgery certainly didn't help, but neither that, nor her "aging" was the underlying issue. To further illustrate that point, she made yet another Rom com with David Duchovny in 2023....and it bombed.

She did take her name from that Jane Seymour. Her real name is Joyce Penelope Wilhelmena Frankenberg. Yes, really.

Wow, I didn’t know that! (Fat Harry)