Carrie-Anne Moss starts openly about the challenges she faced as a 40-year-old actress.
As The Hollywood Reporter notes, the 53-year-old Canadian star – best known for playing Trinity in the Matrix franchise – recently joined girlfriend and co-actress Justine Bateman (55) for an open conversation about aging in Hollywood. Former Family ties star Bateman recently released a book, FACE: One square foot of skinabout the examination that got her appearance while resisting the pressure to undergo plastic surgery.
In the conversation with Bateman for the 92nd Street Y event, Moss revealed that she too is being treated differently as she gets older.
“I heard that at 40 everything changed,” said Moss, whose credits were also included. Memento and Jessica Jones, shared. ‘I did not believe in it, because I do not just believe in jumping on a system of thought that I do not really connect with.
‘But literally the day after my fortieth birthday, I read a text that came to me 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 bit, but it happened overnight. I went from girl to mother to beyond the mother. ‘
Moss did not disclose which project the role contains. She admitted that it can be ‘kind of brutal’ to see your appearance change on screen.
‘You do not feel that you have grown very old and suddenly you see yourself on screen,’ she said, adding, ‘I would look at these French and European actresses and they just had something about them that felt so confident in their own skin. I could not wait to be it. I strive for that. It is not easy to be in this business. There is a lot of external pressure. ‘
The actress, who filmed the filming The Matrix Just when she turns 31, she will repeat her role as Trinity opposite 56-year-old Keanu Reeves in the coming year Matrix 4.
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