Meryl Streep, arguably the greatest actress of her generation, famously admitted that she turned down offers for years because the only scripts sent her way were "witches or harridans." The industry had a limited vocabulary for older women: the bitter divorcee, the desperate cougar, or the wise matriarch who dies in the second act to motivate a younger male hero.
The future of film is not young. It is experienced. It is resilient. And it is finally being heard.
