Posted on 05/23/2015 11:21:20 AM PDT by drewh
Last month a brilliant Amy Schumer sketch came up with a perfect, darkly comic phrase to describe the Hollywood phenomenon of beautiful actresses being put out to pasture after they're deemed too old: "Last F-able Day." Julia Louis-Dreyfuss explained it this way: "In every actress' life, the media decides when you finally reach the point where you're not believably f-able any more."
In the skit, Tina Fey says, "Nobody really overtly tells you, but there are signs." But someone in Hollywood decided to be very upfront with Maggie Gyllenhaal that, essentially, her day has passed. Gyllenhaal didn't name names but she told The Wrap, "I’m 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh."
Hollywood's sexism and penchant for opening up "a hot can of 22" aren't anything new. But lately, there's been a lot of open discussion about all the ways big and small that the industry screws over women. This week, ladies called out Cannes' fashion policing BS, last year ladies who were afraid to out Cosby as a sexual predator for decades finally came forward, this month the ACLU alleged that Hollywood discriminates against female directors and actresses like Gyllenhaal are increasingly speaking up about double standards that deem a woman past her expiration date at 37 while a man at 55 isn't. Or as Fey said about men in the Schumer skit "They're f-able forever. They could be a hundred and, like,"—here she makes an obscene gesture—"nothing but white spiders coming out but they're f-able."
Gyllenhaal says despite the sexism, she is choosing to look on the bright side: "A lot of actresses are doing incredible work right now, playing real women, complicated women. I don’t feel despairing at all. And I’m more looking with hope for something fascinating." And for what it's worth, we'd like to point out that sex symbol Mae West made her big screen debut when she was even older than Gyllenhaal.
Funny.
Maggie, the only reason you were hired as an actress in the first place, back in your younger days, was because men in the audience thought you were “f-able”.
Man they sound desperate to be hip, that video is unwatchable.
This week, ladies called out Cannes' fashion policing BS, last year ladies who were afraid to out Cosby as a sexual predator for decades finally came forward, this month the ACLU alleged that Hollywood discriminates against female directors and actresses like Gyllenhaal are increasingly speaking up about double standards that deem a woman past her expiration date at 37 while a man at 55 isn't.It's all about getting Hitlery elected POTUS.
Maggie is still spankable.
Ah, the hollywood’s left war on women...this revelation won’t stop democrat politicians from taking the industry’s money.
She was good in “The Departed.”
She's a hell of a secretary.
Maggie Gyllenhaal-—
I have seen current photos of her and her problem is she looks an old 37. Her short dark hair does not help. Long hair and going blondish will
Rosamund Pike is same age and getting plum roles because she is.....no mystery here....prettier and comes off younger.
I am sure Maggie is very nice young lady but Hollyweird is all about bringing in the money and this is what you have to do for those degenerates, half of whom want to toss you onto the casting counch
Yup. She was never a particularly good actress to begin with.
She could get rid of the lesbo do, and grow her hair, that might help.
Perfunctory Laz Ping
Maggie? I never bought that face-for-radio in anything romantic.
Rosanna Rosanna-Danna-Arquette did a whiny documentary on female actresses a few years back where the ladies had a roundtable to discuss their...uhhh...”problem”.
Miserable old cows need to become LOVEABLE!
Plenty of truck stops around - she won’t have to starve.
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