In movies, women are often paired with much older men. What if men were paired with women of the same age gap?
Emma Thompson is just one of a number of actors who have sounded off on ageism in Hollywood against women.
Thompson noted the prevalence of age gaps in movies, joking that they would "have to exhume someone to play my leading man."
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Thompson, 56 plays opposite Robert Redford, 79, in A Walk in the Woods. That's an age gap of 23 years.
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But what if that age gap was flipped, and Redford was paired with an actress 23 years older than he?
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To accomplish that age gap, Redford would need to be paired with an actress born in 1913, like Ellen Albertini Dow of Wedding Crashers.
Dow died this year at the age of 101.
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