Perhaps the most radical change is in the portrayal of desire. For decades, cinema has been terrified of the older woman’s body. If she wasn’t a mother, she was invisible.
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: In 2025, the number of top-grossing films featuring a woman or girl in a lead role hit a seven-year low , dropping to 39 from a 2024 high of 55. Perhaps the most radical change is in the
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Forget the grandmother who bakes cookies. Look at Helen Mirren, 78, in the Fast & Furious franchise or Charlize Theron (48) in The Old Guard . Michelle Yeoh, at 60, won an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once —a film that used a laundromat owner in her late 50s as the multiverse’s greatest action hero. The message was clear: Wisdom and physical power are not opposites.