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'Otherhood' director on women in film and the power of 'extraordinary, ordinary stories'

mimisabreena Saturday, August 03, 2019 Mashable

Common wisdom is that if you're an actress over 30, it's time to pack it in.

Not to give up, per se. But the rich leading roles have too often if not entirely been shuffled over to younger actresses, bastions of beauty and promise instead of reminders that time is unrelenting and coming for us all. After a certain age, actresses find a dearth of compelling roles, and that's if they're even still getting scripts and auditions.

But as with so many archaic Hollywood norms, that's changing. There are more roles now than ever for women of varying backgrounds and ages, including those in Cindy Chupack's Otherhood, now streaming on Netflix. Chupack, who cut her teeth in the sitcom world with Modern Family and Sex and the City, has been telling the untold stories of women for decades, giving a spotlight and validation to these stories. Read more...