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Michelle Pfeiffer is not as young and pretty as she once was. Women cannot continue to play the ingenue roles for long (see Meg Ryan).
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This makes me think of a RELATED issue...actors/actresses who get ALL the good parts so no one else GET a gig....
Meryl Streep took parts that Glenn Close and Christine Lahti would have gotten.....so they had to do Streep's turn downs (I guess Streep couldn't DO EVERY. DAMN. MOVIE. she was offered.)
Look at Susan Sarandon now.
She seems to be THE go-to actress for the middle aged wife. She was Richard Gere's wife in "Arbitrage," and Michael Douglas' ex-wife in "Solitary Man." I know Michelle Pfeiffer (54) is a bit younger -- but she could have gotten those parts. OR Amy Irving, or Jaime Lee Curtis, or even Carrie Fisher.
Samuel L. Jackson joked one time that 'he could see Denzel Washington's fingerprints on the scripts he got." But he also chuckled and said Denzel couldn't do everything, so he was MORE than glad to take a Denzel rejected part. And even with that Samuel L. Jackson was doing four and five movies a year.
Bradley Cooper and Ryan Reynolds are the hot young actor right now...and Sam Worthington, I guess. But he's definitely the third choice. With Reynolds and Cooper so on a roll....some other perfectly great actors can't get a part.
Look how Julia Roberts -- with her non-acting self -- took the best parts......and Sandra Bullock (who was even worse) likely got her rejects...but there are so many parts for the late 20s'early 30 age group white actress there was still plenty of work.
But especially if you're a minority....if you have Will Smith getting most Black parts, and Jaime Foxx doing whatever Smith turns down ((like Denzel and Samuel a generation before)) then...there usually aren't enough parts after
that for any other Black actors to GET a part. Same with actresses...if Jennifer Lopez is your go-to Latina.....what's left for someone else.
ADD TO ALL THAT.....the "interesting career choices' in terms of which parts a person DOES DO or turns DOWN and it's so interesting to see how a career develops
Others who -- in their time also had things like that happen
-- Kevin Bacon (44) vs. Kiefer Sutherland (46) vs. Robert Downey Jr (47)......Those three-- and Tom Cruise (50) -- but because he was cuter his career really broke out...and there are so MANY parts for white males.
--Andrew Stevens Patrick Swayze (who even looked alike)
-- Demi Moore (50), Ally Sheedy (50), Molly Ringwald (44)-- technically they COULD have all be interchangeable.....but look at who go which roles.....SAME FOR.....
-- Cameron Diaz (40).....who was a little younger than Julia Roberts (45) and Sandra Bullock (48) , yet BACK IN THEIR ENGENUE YEARS were all in that 'all-American category EVEN NOW to me the COULD BE interchangeable. There's not one part that any or all of them couldn't do. Julia or Demi could have done "The Proposal," "The Blind Side" "Speed." "The Net" Demi could have done "Pelican Brief," "Steel Magnolias", even "Erin Brokovich" -- Julia could have done "Ghost" etc.
Oh yeah I forgot ALL ABOUT DEBRA WINGER!
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Barbara Hershey is older but you get the idea....
-- Heck back in the 40a and 50s look at the Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyk era...or the Stella Stevens, Connie Stevens, Debbie Reynolds revolving parts theme....
-- You can't tell me Sidney Poitier was THEEEE only Black actor who could have done good, sophisticated parts in 50s and 60s
The parts you get OFFERED...the parts you can get..... your reputation in the business....it's all very interesting......
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