And the group in between, for thinking women, that's the shortfall."įor minority actresses, the situation is even more dire. "In my reading of scripts, I see two kinds of roles: the 16- to 20-year-old ingenue on the cusp, and the wife. "We're totally catering to the next generation, that's the crux of it," observes Queally, who works for the William Morris Agency. You see a lot of actresses gravitating to period movies, which are better written and have fully fledged characters." "If you don't want to play the stereotypical wife, girlfriend, lover - a corpse, basically - it's hard. "There's a huge difference between the roles available for men or women," says Hylda Queally, an agent who represents Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett and Hilary Swank, among others. That's putting it mildly, say those in the trenches of the industry. Among the Hollywood films that aren't aimed at teens, "the bulk of them tend to sustain older male stars - Mel Gibson, Sean Connery - and you don't necessarily find the same opportunities for women proportionately." "Within the context of a youth-oriented market, women are going to be in a sense doubly discriminated against," says Vivian Sobchak, a professor at UCLA's film school. Constrained by the male-oriented demands of the box office, an avalanche of teen-targeted fare and the already entrenched intolerance for the aging process, even top actresses can't expect their turn in the spotlight to last much longer than a laser peel. (Whither Skeet Ulrich?)īut many in Hollywood agree that today's moviemaking environment is worse for women than ever. Hot young male actors, too, can find themselves cooling off in a trice. The ingenue who is here today and nowhere tomorrow is, of course, a longtime Hollywood fixture. The unforgiving nature of the close-up, the industry's obsession with youth and beauty, make it even harder for women to sustain marquee status for any length of time.
#JULIA ORMOND WRINKLES PROFESSIONAL#
In the notoriously brutal microculture of Hollywood, the professional lifespan of actresses tends to be shorter than those of most other creatures. Who may themselves disappear a few years from now. Now, just a few years later, they're familiar but distant history, finding work in the hinterland of cable movies, tiny art-house productions or not at all, replaced by a flock of new, barely-20-year-old faces: Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst, Kate Hudson, Mena Suvari.
#JULIA ORMOND WRINKLES MOVIE#
Sharon Stone was shooting movie after movie, Demi Moore was headlining in "Striptease," Julia Ormond was twinkling on some poster between Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear. Whatever happened to them? It seems like only a moment ago they were ubiquitous emblems of our celebrity culture. Even as women continue to rise within the power structure of the industry - running studios, like Amy Pascal at Sony and Stacey Snider at Universal, and directing major films, like Mimi Leder ("Deep Impact"), Nora Ephron ("You've Got Mail") and Nancy Meyers ("What Women Want") - the number of actresses who attain fame only to fall off the cultural radar is astonishing. And all but disappear.īut the Oscars may have nothing to do with the incredible shrinking careers of so many Hollywood actresses. They gain the acclaim and admiration of their peers in a shining moment of glory, adorn magazine covers, get a couple of roles. Sometimes they call it the Oscar curse, a hex falling on the careers of winning actresses: Mira Sorvino.
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