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Senior actresses in indie movies<\/h2>\nThe archetype of the affable old lady with barely enough screen time to pat grandchildren’s heads\u00a0seems to have run its course. A new generation of successful senior actresses prove that when it comes to acting, nothing substitutes experience.<\/p>\n
Senior actresses in indie movies<\/h2>\nIs the prevalent youth culture in Hollywood slowly giving way ?<\/strong> Actresses aged 60 and older seem to feature more prominently than ever in successful movies,\u00a0sometimes where they are least expected…<\/p>\n Meryl Streep and Maggie Smith have long stood out as exceptions to a commonly-accepted rule : if you’ve reached age 50 in Hollywood, your acting career may as well be over. The tables seem to have turned : senior actresses feature ever more prominently in productions<\/strong>, especially in indie movies.<\/p>\n Those productions also tend to be some of highest-grossing movies of the genre ; last year, indie movie I’ll See You in My Dreams<\/em> generated 7.4 million dollars<\/strong> ; it told the story of a former singer, played by 72-year-old actress Blythe Danner. Grandma<\/em>, another indie movie that came out in septembre 2015, drew in a wide audience, generating some 7 million dollars. In 2016, The Lady in the Van<\/em>, featuring 81-year-old Maggie Smith, Eye in the Sky<\/em>, with 70-year-old Helen Mirren, and Hello, my name is Dorry<\/em>, featuring 69-year-old Sally Field, were all box-office successes, and grossed more than 10 million dollars each.<\/strong> Senior actors, far from rebuking audiences, are set to become prevalent selling points<\/strong>. Some have already used their ages as advertising assets : Paramount for, instance, mentioned the ages of actors in its trailer for Nebraska, <\/em>the story of an elderly man who fell for an email scam.<\/p>\n The phenomenon is not unseen : during the\u00a0Cannes Film Festival of 2015, many movies featuring seniors were nominated, including the movie Youth<\/em>,\u00a0<\/i>about two seventy-year old friends taking a new start in life.<\/p>\n And it\u00a0is not restricted to independent movies, either ; Fast and Furious<\/em>, a traditionally youth-obsessed franchise, recently cast seventy-one year old Helen Mirren in its last production to date, Fast and Furious<\/em> 8. TV shows are not exempt from it, as exemplified by Netflix’s Grace and Frankie<\/em><\/a>, about two seventy-year-old undergoing an existential crisis.<\/p>\n Nebraska trailer :\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"the-lady-in-the-van](\"http:\/\/www.silvereco.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/the-lady-in-the-van.png\")
<\/p>\nSeniors as selling points : is old the new sexy ?<\/h2>\n
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