Friday, May 22, 2015

Maggie Gyllenhaal, 37, Has Reached Her Last F***able Day

Maggie Gyllenhaal, 37, Has Reached Her Last F***able Day

Maggie Gyllenhaal from the BBC miniseries "The Honorourable Woman" arrives at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California January 25, 2015.


The 37-year-old actress was told she was “too old” to play the love interest of a 55-year-old male counterpart in a film. The depressing thing? This isn’t news.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, it would appear, has reached her Last Fuckable Day.

Amy Schumer set off a chorus of industry hallelujahs with her signature torching of Hollywood’s sexism in the season premiere of her Comedy Central series Inside Amy Schumer with her sketch, titled, “Last Fuckable Day.”

In the sketch, Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Patricia Arquette gathered to comedically give the middle finger to the Hollywood patriarchy by celebrating Louis-Dreyfus’s so-called last fuckable day. As she explains, “In every actress’ life, the media decides when you finally reach the point when you’re not believably fuckable anymore.”

The 37-year-old actress was told she was “too old” to play the love interest of a 55-year-old male counterpart in a film. The depressing thing? This isn’t news.

According the sketch, signs that an actress has reached this milestone include: movie posters forgoing images of you for just a photo of the kitchen, wardrobes consist mostly of frumpy sweaters, and all of your movies being remade with younger actresses.