While primarily about harassment, these movements also exposed the inherent ageism of the executive suite. When you remove the Harvey Weinsteins—who notoriously preferred "young starlets"—you open the door for development executives to greenlight projects about complex, older women. The structural power shift allowed writers like Michaela Coel and Lisa Taddeo to pitch stories that feature mature female sexuality and trauma as the subject , not the subplot.
: A gamine figure requiring male rescue, an image that favored extreme youth.
Why is this happening now? Three forces have collided.
Similarly, used her gravitational pull to force projects into existence. Mamma Mia! (2008) and its sequel did the unthinkable: it placed women in their 60s at the center of a massive, joyful, sexually liberated musical. Streep, Christine Baranski, and Julie Walters danced in platform boots, proving that joy and desire have no expiration date.