I was sitting and watching regional Hessen news (via HR, the public network) and they had this research project that the Goethe University out of Frankfurt had done. So....there's now statistical proof that female actresses are telling the truth....there just aren't movie parts in abundance for women over age sixty, and even to some degree....over age 35.
What they call this? "Aging out."
I sat and pondered this. About 95-percent of the issue, if you think about it....is the story and script details.
To be honest, if you created the entire list of all movies made in Germany in the past three years....the bulk of the scripts concern people between the ages of 18 and 40. I'd even go and say where you did have parts/characters for people over sixty....it's probably a male dominated area (say five men to each woman).
Fixing or resolving this? You'd have to write scripts for movies that mostly concern older women, and accept the fact that half the normal audience would not have that big of interest in watching the story unfold.
But if this is a problem...should the fact that we have mostly players in the top soccer league who are between 20 and 27 years old, and few if any players over the age of thirty be of concern?
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