Hannah McGill, former director of the Edinburgh Film Festival, is not surprised. She said: “The idea that women lose their visibility to men and their sexual power at 26, or 30 or 40, or that a neck wrinkle is the end of beauty, is overcooked.
It doesn’t fit with who real men in the real world find attractive. “Women are still punished for visible signs of ageing. But great actresses from Bette Davis and Joan Crawford through Jane Fonda and Anjelica Huston to Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett, Alfre Woodard and Angela Bassett have hit their stride in their 40s and beyond.“I don't think experienced, authoritative women being regarded as iconic or sexy by audiences and fans is a new thing - it's more that the industry has tended to emphasise.
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