'I'm at an age where my face should have wrinkles and it would look weird if it didn't' — Mimi Rogers
But actress Mimi Rogers, who is 67, is having none of it.Rogers has a long-running television role in which she plays Honey Chandler, a high-powered and fearless attorney who is, in more ways than one, comfortable in her own skin. I’d never met Rogers, but I’ve seen her work in “Bosch” and “Bosch: Legacy,” which are based on the work of crime fiction writer
That bias and outright discrimination on the basis of race, gender and age have long histories in Hollywood and broader culture. At the moment, Rogers said, older writers are frozen out of the game., who chairs the career longevity committee of the Writers Guild of America West. “It is much harder for writers than anyone else regarding age discrimination because older actors get to reinvent themselves.
“It goes back to when Cary Grant was cavorting with 22-year-olds” on screen, Rogers said. “I think it’s better in Europe, but a lot of women talk about this idea that past a certain age, you become invisible. It’s like your sexual currency is gone, and that currency goes away much more rapidly for women.”Susan J. Douglas
Many women, Douglas continued, face a “punishing” dilemma — especially those in entertainment and public life. Wrinkles can threaten their livelihood, but “if you go under the knife and don’t look like yourself, you’re attacked for being narcissistic or wanting to hold on to the past. So it’s really hard to win.”
Rogers says she doesn’t want to judge individual women — or men — for their attempts to look their best, and she’s not out to condemn all manner of cosmetic surgery. She said that she’s not trying to be “holier than thou” and acknowledges that she has experimented with minor treatment. “My issue is the compulsive and somewhat irrational pursuit of youth,” she said. “If I look at you and my first thought is, Oh, my God, what have you done, or gee, your mouth looks weird, or you don’t look like yourself, or your forehead won’t move, to me that’s a fail.”
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