Kyle Buchanan has written a great piece over at Vulture.com about the age gaps between Hollywood leading men and their love interests. Plus it is jam packed with awesome graphs to look at.
Article here
With the exception of Tom Hanks, all the other actors profiled are significantly older than their love interests. It is borderline dangerous in Hollywood to be an "older" woman but the same can't be said for their male counterparts. Is the industry under the impression that we don't want to see older women on our screens? That we are somehow offended by this notion but seeing an actor doing a love scene with an actress twenty or so years younger is completely fine? I don't have anything against age gaps but they are disproportionately represented in Hollywood, to the extent that the "older woman" seems to be an endangered species.
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