Rough-hewn telephone thrower and deep voice-having thespian Russell Crowe was directed by his own son Charles Spencer Crowe to “GET OUT OF MY FACE” during a recent footy game, and now he’s at it again.
In a recent interview with Women’s Weekly, Crowe attempted to dispel the myth that there are few good roles for older women in movies, saying that bloody shielas in Hollywood oughta just suck it up and act their age.
“To be honest, I think you’ll find that the woman who is saying that [decent roles have dried up is] the woman who at 40, 45, 48, still wants to play the ingénue, and can’t understand why she’s not being cast as the 21-year-old,” he said.
“Meryl Streep will give you 10,000 examples and arguments as to why that’s bullshit, so will Helen Mirren, or whoever it happens to be.”
“If you are willing to live in your own skin, you can work as an actor. If you are trying to pretend that you’re still the young buck when you’re my age, it just doesn’t work.”
Whoever It Happens To Be was unavailable for comment, but we presume that somewhere, Meryl Strep is making this face:
As some have gently pointed out, Crowe’s statements are slightly full of shit, given figures from 2012 that show how in that year, just 28.4% of speaking roles in Hollywood films went to women.
Cate Blanchett recently came out against those in Hollywood who are “still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences.”
“They are not,” she said. “Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.”
At the time of writing, Gladiator is clearly on TV in America, as social media is split 50/50 between people ripping the shit out of Russell for mansplaining Hollywood, and people lustily tweeting about how Maximus can get it.
This has been another day on the internet.
via The Frisky
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