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'The Forty-Year-Old Version' Creator Radha Blank on Seeing Herself and Missing Her Mother

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Hollywood Shuffle inspired her, during their spotlight discussion for the Urbanworld Film Festival last month. As a first-time feature filmmaker, the playwright/TV writer, with credits ranging from the plays SEED and Casket Sharp to the TV shows Empire and The Get Down, admitted that she’s embarking on the previously unthinkable: “I’m creating a film career in my 40s,” she told Townsend.Reinvention, pivoting, whatever term one uses, is very real for so many women in their 40s.

And that’s precisely what makes The Forty-Year-Old Version (streaming now on Netflix) produced by friend Lena Waithe with Blank serving as writer, director and star, essential viewing.

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