The ingenue gets the first kiss. The mature woman gets the final cut. And in cinema, as in life, the final cut is the only one that matters.
These women aren't waiting for the phone to ring. They are building the studio. When mature women control the financing and the greenlight, the stories about mature women get made. Milftoon - MilfLand -v0.04A- -Ongoing-
Furthermore, we need to stop treating a 45-year-old actress as a "veteran." In any other profession, 45 is mid-career . We need to normalize the fact that a woman's creative prime might be at 60, not 21. The ingenue gets the first kiss