I wish Sigourney Weaver would shut up. Many of us may be thanking God that we need never be fagged with all that stuff again
Jennifer Garner, aged 38, is to play the elderly lady detective in the new Disney version of Miss Marple. Grazia magazine is furious. But it's not much of a surprise. There is no sex in the existing Miss Marple films, and that's what you need to get people out to the cinema. Tonnes of sex, glamour and violence. That's why old women don't get many parts in films. They don't often do sex, fights and conventional beauty. But it doesn't have to be like this. Just ask Sigourney Weaver (below), who plays a sort of Mrs Robinson part in Cedar Rapids (coming out in April), and feels that "women in their 60s can still be attractive and sexually active". Basic qualifications for big film parts.
I wish Sigourney would shut up. She might be keen on all that, but many women in their 60s may be thanking God that all that stuff is over, they need never be fagged with it again, and they certainly don't want to be glaring at Sigourney, or anyone else, being "sexually active" all over the big screen. I've always found it frightfully embarrassing. I have to go and make the tea if that sort of thing starts up. But neither do we want to be staring at the original Miss Marple, unless we're nearly dead and home in the afternoons, or at the new glam Disney version, because now we know better. Anyway, we have the best female detective ever now: Sophie Gr�b�l as Sarah Lund in The Killing, and she has absolutely no time to be attractive and sexually active.
All right, she's not elderly, but she is female and star of the best detective series ever, she wears a normal woolly (well, it was until she wore it), and she has made it hip and breathtakingly thrilling to stay in on Saturday nights, which is what old women often do, and my hope is that in 30 years, when I will have fallen off my perch, The Killing will still be going, with Gr�b�l in it, possibly doing cold cases, at 60-plus.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/01/sexually-active-women-60s-michele-hanson
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