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The picture is not yet complete. The "mature woman" on screen is still disproportionately white, thin, and wealthy. The conversation is only just beginning for mature women of color, working-class women, queer women, and women with disabilities. Actresses like Viola Davis, Angela Bassett, and Rita Moreno are leading the charge, but the industry must expand its definition of which "mature women" get to be complex, desirable, and powerful.

Nicole Holofcener (now in her 60s) has been writing and directing exquisitely awkward, funny, and painful films about middle-aged women for decades ( Enough Said , You Hurt My Feelings ). Greta Gerwig’s Barbie became a global phenomenon, but its most radical element was the subplot of the mother-daughter relationship—America Ferrera’s mid-life crisis monologue became the film’s heart. And then there is Sarah Polley, who adapted Women Talking —a film entirely about the interior lives, traumas, and fierce intellectual debates of women from their teens to their 70s, none of whom are objectified. Searching for- badmilfs 24 08 21 kat marie curi...

While mainstream cinema was slow to adapt, the long-form narrative of prestige television became the unexpected vanguard of the revolution. Streaming services and cable networks discovered what studios had forgotten: audiences were ravenous for stories about women with history. The picture is not yet complete