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But the most radical shift has come from auteurs who write specifically for aging legends. In 2015, wrote Grandma , putting Lily Tomlin front and center as a chain-smoking, ferociously feminist poet helping her granddaughter get an abortion. In 2020, Chloé Zhao cast the nonagenarian Frances McDormand in Nomadland , a meditative, Oscar-winning portrait of a woman in her 60s who has lost everything and chooses the road over the cage. That film didn’t pity Fern (McDormand); it envied her freedom. The Power Behind the Camera The explosion of roles for mature women is not an accident of good will. It is a direct result of women seizing power behind the camera.

The entertainment industry is finally catching up to this biological and cultural fact. When we see (60) kick down a door and win a Best Actress Oscar; when we see Jennifer Coolidge turn a clumsy hotel guest into an icon of tragicomedy; when we see Sigourney Weaver (73) in Avatar playing a blue alien scientist—we are witnessing the death of the ingénue. Annabelle Rogers- Kelly Payne - MILF-s Take Son...

But the script has flipped.