"Doing what?"
Finally, the is telling. French, Italian, and Swedish cinema never abandoned their older actresses. Juliette Binoche (60), Isabelle Huppert (71), and Tilda Swinton (63) have been playing complex leads their entire careers. Hollywood is only now catching up to what the rest of the world knew: that a woman’s face at 60 is not a ruin; it is a climax.
We will see more mature women in genre films (horror, sci-fi, action) where age is a superpower, not a handicap. We will see more Thelma (2024), a film starring June Squibb (94) as an action hero scamming scammers. We will see the first Best Actress Oscar winner over 80 (likely Squibb or Judi Dench).