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What makes the current moment thrilling is the variety. We have the ruthless political machinations of The Crown 鈥檚 Queen Elizabeth (Imelda Staunton). The tender, awkward second-chance romance of Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Emma Thompson, baring her body and soul at 65). The absurdist horror of The Substance , which grotesquely literalized Hollywood鈥檚 fear of the aging female body. The last half-decade has offered an answer
We are still in the early innings of a long-overdue revolution. For every complex role for a woman over 50, there are still twenty vacant, vapid 鈥渉ot moms.鈥� But the dam has cracked. The mature woman in cinema is no longer a prop for a younger person鈥檚 story. She is the story. And as any woman over 50 will tell you, that story is just getting to the good part. They want to see themselves
