Meryl Streep Had A Few Things To Say About Russell Crowe’s “Actresses Should Play Their Age” Comment

And Tracey Ullman was the best part of Meryl Streep’s response. But before we get into the wonder that is Tracey Ullman’s facial expressions….

Russell Crowe recently told The Australian Women’s Weekly that he’s too old to play the Gladiator, and he added that actresses who complain that there aren’t any roles for them are usually the ones who are in their 40s and still want to play the young ingenue. (I see Russell Crowe throwing belated shade at Joan Crawford for playing her daughter’s role in that soap. Bitch is going to get a wire hanger slap from the great beyond.) I wish Russell felt the same way about actors in movie musicals. Because if he felt that you should be able to sing if you’re going to be in a movie musical, my ears would have never been traumatized by his walrus warble in Les Miserables. Here’s a piece of what Russell said. You can read the entire thing here.

“The best thing about the industry I’m in – movies – is that there are roles for people in all different stages of life. To be honest, I think you’ll find that the woman who is saying that (the roles have dried up) is the woman who at 40, 45, 48, still wants to play the ingénue, and can’t understand why she’s not being cast as the 21 year old. Meryl Streep will give you 10,000 examples and arguments as to why that’s bullshit, so will Helen Mirren, or whoever it happens to be.”

Russell got a lot of hotel desk phones thrown at him for saying that, because many of the good, lead female roles are for youngins and the older roles usually go to Meryl Streep. Russell really shouldn’t have used Meryl Streep as an example. She’s in her own category. If she wanted to play a Japanese baby boy in a movie, they’d probably let her. She’s Meryl Fucking Streep.

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Pure Glamour: Christine Baranski As Cinderella’s Evil Stepmother In Into The Woods

Here’s Christine Baranski with a fluffy cloud of luscious wig hair (it kind of looks like Nancy Reagan’s 80s hair on steroids) on her head while walking to the set of Into the Woods at Dover Castle in Dover, Kent, England today. This is the look from the top to the bottom and I expect that in the Into the Woods movie, the Prince drops that bland, boring, Caulifloweresque Cinderella and tries to get with this tall goblet full of glamour.

And today, disappointment IS Googling “gay ren faire porn” after seeing Chris Pine in costume and coming up empty in more ways than one.

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