The Silver Screen is No Longer Asleep: Why Mature Women are Finally Running the Show

So, to the casting directors: Keep writing for the woman over 50. To the streaming giants: Keep greenlighting the Hacks and the Olive Kitteridges . And to the audience: Keep showing up.

The screen is big enough for everyone. And frankly, the wisest, wildest, and most wonderful stories are just beginning.

and Julie Garner in The Watcher . Lin Shaye in the Insidious franchise. These women aren't the victims running up the stairs; they are the ones who know how to fight the monster because they've seen worse in their own marriages.

We are hungry for women who look like they have lived. We want to see the map of their experiences on their faces. We want the unsteadiness of a middle-aged woman starting over, the fury of a grandmother who has been wronged, and the joy of a sixty-year-old discovering sex for the first time since a divorce.