> “Has aging in Hollywood affected you?” Kmetko asked, prompting Duffy, 73, to quip, deadpan, “Oh not at at all, Steve. It’s been fine.”
> Duffy said that it’s “very awkward,” and said the roles for older women all seem to be stereotypes.
> “I’ll tell you something that drives me up a wall, because it’s symbolic of all of it,” Duffy said. “I have read for and actually played the role of a woman who’s older, that they have named Myrna — that takes place present day.”
> “Now, I know what people were named who are my age, now. We were Patty and Kathy and Susie. These women that they write in older roles could have been at Woodstock,” she said as a nod to the cool young women who attended the famous 1969 concert, “if you’re having them be 70 today in 2024.”
> “You have to write the person and not the type,” Duffy, who also starred in the hit Designing Women, explained. “And it is very disappointing to me how much even younger writers seem to be writing Aunt Bee or something when they write an older person and not an individual.”
B1GFanOSU on
>“I have read for and actually played the role of a woman who’s older, that they have named Myrna — that takes place present day.”
She’s not wrong. A recent GEICO ad, the one with the accordions, had an old woman named Edna.
Edna?
They’re at least two generations behind. Like, maybe Barbara, but definitely not Edna.
giabollc on
And in regular society older folks have it easy. It’s easy to find another job when your in your 50s
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> “Has aging in Hollywood affected you?” Kmetko asked, prompting Duffy, 73, to quip, deadpan, “Oh not at at all, Steve. It’s been fine.”
> Duffy said that it’s “very awkward,” and said the roles for older women all seem to be stereotypes.
> “I’ll tell you something that drives me up a wall, because it’s symbolic of all of it,” Duffy said. “I have read for and actually played the role of a woman who’s older, that they have named Myrna — that takes place present day.”
> “Now, I know what people were named who are my age, now. We were Patty and Kathy and Susie. These women that they write in older roles could have been at Woodstock,” she said as a nod to the cool young women who attended the famous 1969 concert, “if you’re having them be 70 today in 2024.”
> “You have to write the person and not the type,” Duffy, who also starred in the hit Designing Women, explained. “And it is very disappointing to me how much even younger writers seem to be writing Aunt Bee or something when they write an older person and not an individual.”
>“I have read for and actually played the role of a woman who’s older, that they have named Myrna — that takes place present day.”
She’s not wrong. A recent GEICO ad, the one with the accordions, had an old woman named Edna.
Edna?
They’re at least two generations behind. Like, maybe Barbara, but definitely not Edna.
And in regular society older folks have it easy. It’s easy to find another job when your in your 50s