: Mature white female leads are most likely to star in films with budgets under $10 million , while they are the least likely to lead "blockbuster" films with budgets of $100 million or more.
Long-form streaming and cable series offered what studio films could not: time. Series like The Crown (Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton) or Big Little Lies (Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep) allowed for ensemble casts where maturity was a superpower. Grace and Frankie , starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin (both in their 80s), became Netflix’s longest-running original series. It showcased two elderly women starting over after their husbands leave each other—a premise that executives originally dismissed as "too old." It ran for seven seasons because audiences craved joyful, complicated older women. hot wife rio milf seeking boys 2 1080p upd
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