: Research from institutions like the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has highlighted that characters over 50 are disproportionately male, leaving mature women heavily underrepresented on screen.
: When mature women have been cast, the roles have frequently been limited to narrow tropes—such as the frail grandmother, the eccentric elder, or the background matriarch—rather than fully fleshed-out, complex individuals with their own desires and agency. 🌊 The Turning Tide milf in solo
For decades, Hollywood notoriously sidelined women once they passed the age of 40. : Research from institutions like the Geena Davis