Anne Billson asks an interesting question over at The Guardian: Where are the older film leads in Hollywood?
In 2009 I watched roughly 320 films. Other than the aforementioned Streep, only three could be said to feature oldish leading characters: Hirokazu Koreeda’s Still Walking, 71-year-old Dustin Hoffman getting it on with 49-year-old Emma Thompson in Last Chance Harvey (funny how no one noticed that particular age disparity), and Brad Pitt ageing backwards in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which I probably shouldn’t count any more than I’d count Twilight’s Edward Cullen as a 100-year-old. In 2009, alas, the most memorable appearance by an actor of pensionable age was by 87-year-old Betty White, whose "Native American" dance in The Proposal was both patronising and cringe-making.
No comments yet.
