Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie has been shocked by casting decisions that have deemed her too old: “There are things that are really disappointing about being an actress in Hollywood that surprise me all the time. I’m 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made feel angry, and then it made me laugh.”
Olivia Wilde
Olivia was once told she is too sophisticated for a role and then later realised they meant she was too old: “The funniest thing I heard recently was, I had heard for a part that I was too sophisticated. I thought, ‘Oh, that sounds nice. I like that feedback. I didn’t get the part but I’m a very sophisticated person.’Then I found out later they actually said ‘old’.I had auditioned unsuccessfully for Wolf of Wall Street. That was the one I was too old for.”
