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Naomi Watts Reveals She Was Told Her Acting Career Was Over At 40: ‘You Are Not Sexy’

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Naomi Watts is opening up about being an older woman in Hollywood. The actress broke out into mainstream success with David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” in 2001 at the age of 33, a feat she was told was incredible in Hollywood. “I was told [taps an imaginary watch], ‘You better get a lot done because it’s all over at 40 when you become unf—able.’ And I’m like, ‘What?

What does that mean exactly?'” she recalled in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Then you think about it, and you go, ‘Oh, right.

When you are no longer reproductive, when those organs are no longer functioning, you are not sexy, so, therefore, you are not hirable.’ That just made me so mad.” READ MORE: Naomi Watts And Ex Liev Schreiber Celebrate Daughter Kai’s Graduation Together With Their Partners The 54-year-old is well past the age her career was supposed to end, and has earned two Oscar nominations and numerous acting awards despite the odds.

Speaking on the attitude the entertainment business has towards aging women, Watts hoped to change the narrative. “It’s such an awkward conversation because, from day one, we begin our aging process.

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