A recent survey found that only 12% of the lead characters of last year’s 100 highest-grossing films were female. Maggie Gyllenhaal recently bemoaned the fact that, at the ripe old age of 37, she was considered too decrepit and doddering to convincingly portray the love interest of a 55-year-old leading man. Undervalued, underpaid and underemployed, these women are marooned in a youth-worshipping world that exists on a diet of robots and mutants. P lease spare a thought for the plight of the middle-aged actress in Hollywood.
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