Seems getting your kit off isn't restricted to the young actresses! Four women in their 50s, two of them former soap stars and two from the talk show, Loose Women, have posed nude in protest, upset because there are so few good roles for women as they age. One of them is former Corrie star, Beverly Callard, who played Liz McDonald. Now, the way I see it, Bev had a great role but gave it up. It was her choice to leave Coronation Street, after all. I suppose she's finding it difficult to get another good role and that's probably the reason she participated.
Bev says she's less confident as she gets older because, these days, it seems like women over 35 are having less opportunities, much less women in their 40s and 50s. There are good parts but sometimes they have to be self-created and produced like the recent Scott and Bailey. It seems like the soaps are still writing for women of all ages but still focus on the younger women.
What do you think? Are they right?
Monday, 19 September 2011
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5 comments:
Great idea ruined by including the vacuous Andrea McLean, who is not an actress and should be grateful that she is on TV at all, given the tiny proportions of her talent. Also, its ironic that the picture is so heavily airbrushed. Have the courage of your convictions ladies!
As for the issue itself, this has always been a problem affecting greats like Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor, to name just two. It's improving, but very very slowly. TV needs to be much less "attractiveist" and include all shapes and sizes. People should stop thinking that men in their 50s are "distinguished", but their female counterparts are just old.
TV is getting worse, not better.
It got taken through the courts when it sacked a female presenter/newsreader just for getting old. Actresses have no such redress.
Women will have to start writing more drama for older women - the men are just not going to do it.
Otherwise this is just one more area in which society indulges men's preference for making older women invisible.
Stuff them, I say. Get writing, gals.
TV is not getting worse. Where is the evidence for that?
The BBC being taken to court for age discrimination was only made possible by recent changes in the law. Otherwise there might have been a number of previous cases like for Anne Grieg, replaced by 20 years younger Anneka Rice in 1991. Women of a certain age used to be completely invisible, at least now they do appear occasionally.
Och these getting your kit off things make me sick. Why does it have to be about how good you look with clothes off/on?
In what way are there loads of opportunities for men in their fifties either?
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