For decades, the unwritten rule in Hollywood was brutal and binary: you were either the ingénue or the irrelevance. Once a leading lady crossed a certain threshold—often her 40th birthday—the offers dried up. She was shuffled into roles as the "wise grandmother," the "hysterical ex-wife," or the "ghost of a love interest." Cinema, it seemed, suffered from a collective myopia, unable to see the vitality, complexity, and raw power of women with life behind their eyes.

Today, that script has been burned.

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