Actress Patricia Clarkson Talks About The Importance Of Seeing Women Of A Certain Age In Film

For a long time it has been very easy to see the massive difference in the way sexuality is defined by older men vs older women on screen. Men like Jack Nicholson, George Clooney, Pierce Brosnan, and Tom Hanks never seem to lose their sensual appeal, but look at women of the same age and you are more likely to see them in non-sexual roles like the mother, the secretary, the housewife, etc. The other insidious trend is where female partners of men are never the same age, always younger. It’s as if being the same age as a man onscreen is considered “too old”, as Maggie Gyllenhaal pointed out about an experience she once had. Read More…