Recently, acclaimed thespian Emma Thompson took the entertainment industry to task for this trend while speaking about her upcoming movie Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, in which Thompson’s character romances a younger man.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande will be directed by Sophie Hyde, and produced by Genesius Pictures.
Similarly, in David Fincher’s Mank, 62-year-old Gary Oldman played the lead character of acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz.
If I have someone playing opposite me in a romantic way, they have to exhume someone, because I’m 61 now.