Ellen Burstyn is a screen legend, and at age 90, she said she’s more in demand now as her peers have all already “died.”
The “Exorcist: Believer” star, who returns to the franchise 50 years after William Friedkin’s original film, told her “Law and Order: Organized Crime” co-star Christopher Meloni while in conversation for Interview magazine that it’s “bizarre” how busy she is in her later years.
“This is so bizarre. I turn 91 in December and I’m busier than I can ever remember being at any point in my career,” Burstyn said. “And I don’t understand it at all. I mean, what’s all this stuff about ageism in Hollywood? How did I get left out of it?”
She continued, “I don’t know, except possibly that everybody else who could play those parts has already died, so I’m the only actress still standing who can play the great-grandmother or something.
The “Exorcist: Believer” star, who returns to the franchise 50 years after William Friedkin’s original film, told her “Law and Order: Organized Crime” co-star Christopher Meloni while in conversation for Interview magazine that it’s “bizarre” how busy she is in her later years.
“This is so bizarre. I turn 91 in December and I’m busier than I can ever remember being at any point in my career,” Burstyn said. “And I don’t understand it at all. I mean, what’s all this stuff about ageism in Hollywood? How did I get left out of it?”
She continued, “I don’t know, except possibly that everybody else who could play those parts has already died, so I’m the only actress still standing who can play the great-grandmother or something.
- 10/5/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
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