Additionally, the pressure to “look young” has simply shifted from invisibility to a different kind of tyranny. Actresses are now praised for “aging gracefully” (read: looking 50 but having the skin of a 30-year-old). True progress will come when a 70-year-old woman can play a romantic lead with wrinkles, gray hair, and a body that has lived—without the narrative calling attention to it as a statement. The mature woman in entertainment is no longer a niche interest or a charity case. She is a commercial powerhouse, a critical darling, and a source of some of the most daring, honest art being made today. Cinema is finally catching up to reality: that a woman’s story does not end with her youth. In fact, for many of the most interesting characters, that is precisely where it begins. As audiences continue to demand authenticity over airbrushing, the most exciting roles in Hollywood will increasingly belong to the women who have the most to say—the ones who have lived.