"Matrix" star Carrie-Anne Moss opened up about ageism and life in Hollywood for an actress after 40 during a frank discussion with author and filmmaker Justine Bateman.
Moss, 53, who returns to her universe-saving role as Trinity in "The Matrix 4" (due out Dec. 21), revealed that she was offered the role of a grandmother for a different project the day after her 40th birthday.
"I had heard that at 40 everything changed," said Moss in the wide-ranging talk at New York's 92nd Street Y on April 1, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I didn't believe in that because I don't believe in just jumping on a thought system that I don't really align with. But literally the day after my 40th birthday, I was reading a script that had come to me and I was talking to my manager about it. She was like, 'Oh, no, no, no, it's not that role (you're reading for), it's the grandmother.'"
"I may be exaggerating a bit, but it happened overnight," Moss added. "I went from being a girl to the mother to beyond the mother."
The actress said it was a tough transition to mentally process in part because male actors don't experience ageism in the same manner.
"It's a stereotypical story, working with men that are so much older and aging," Moss said. "And people are enjoying the aging of them. While I'm much younger than they are."
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Carrie-Anne Moss says she was offered grandmother role 'literally the day after my 40th birthday'
"I went from being a girl to the mother to beyond the mother," Carrie-Anne Moss said in a talk about Hollywood and aging with Justine Bateman.
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