Liv Tyler, 38, Says Her Age Means 'Second-Class Citizen' Roles
Add Liv Tyler to the growing number of actresses saying Hollywood considers them too old to play the interesting parts they could get when younger.
“38 is a crazy number,” she tells More magazine. “It’s not fun when you see things start to change. When you’re in your teens or 20s, there is an abundance of ingenue parts which are exciting to play. But at [my age], you’re usually the wife or the girlfriend, a sort of second-class citizen. There are more interesting roles for women when they get a bit older.”
Tyler, who returns for the second season of HBO’s “The Leftovers”Oct. 4, joins Maggie Gyllenhaal, Zoe Saldana and Anne Hathaway who have recently spoken out about the lack of opportunities in Hollywood for actresses in their 30s.
“I can’t complain about it because I benefitted from it,” Hathaway recently told Glamour UK’s October issue. “When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties and I would get them. And now I’m in my early thirties and I’m like, ‘Why did that 24-year-old get that part?'”