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Geena Davis says she stopped getting roles after turning 40: 'It was like I drove off a cliff'

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Geena Davis has opened up about her experience with ageism in Hollywood. In an interview with The Times ahead of her new book release, "Dying of Politeness," the 66-year-old actress shared that she stopped being offered roles after turning 40. "It was like I drove off a cliff," the "Thelma & Louise" star said.

She continued, "I’d heard about this very early on, this concept that after 40 the roles dry up. It didn’t worry me at all because I thought it wouldn’t happen to me." Geena Davis has opened up about her experience with ageism in Hollywood. (Karwai Tang/Getty Images) The "A League of Their Own" star explained that she believed that her career wouldn't be impacted by her age since she had watched older actresses continue to receive award-winning parts. "Every year at the Oscars, Glenn Close and Jessica Lange and Sally Field were getting all these awards.

I thought, ‘Well, it’s not going to happen to them.Their careers are flourishing,’" Davis said. "And, ‘It won’t happen to them; therefore, it won’t happen to anybody else after that,’" she added. "Once I started getting some of these incredible roles I thought, ‘Well, certainly it is not going to happen to me.’ So when it did…" The Academy Award-winner admitted that she was angry when her roles began to dry up since she wanted to continue working.

She also called out people who invented reasons to explain why her career had stalled. "I remember getting to a point where I thought, ‘This is forced retirement.

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