Carrie-Anne Moss was offered the role of grandmother at 40

Carrie-Anne Moss has starred in many films and TV shows during her career, and you definitely know her The Matrix trilogy.

During a conversation with actor and writer Justine Bateman in support of Bateman’s new book Face: one square foot of skin, Moss talked about how she experienced ageism in Hollywood during her acting career.

After saying she initially did not believe that ‘at 40, everything changed in Hollywood, Moss’s thoughts changed when she herself changed the age.

“Literally the day after my fortieth birthday, I read a text that came to me,” Moss recalls, “and I talked 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 little bit, but it happened overnight. I went from girl to mother to beyond the mother.”

Moss also revealed about the unrealistic standards that female identifying actors face when it comes to changing their looks: “I would look at these French and European actresses and they just had something to them that felt so confident in their own skin . “

“I could not wait to be it. I strive for it. It is not easy to be in this business. There is a lot of external pressure.”

But Moss is still going strong in any case – and she will appear in the fourth series Matrix film, which will be released later this year. Exciting stuff!